Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 371 Elected
Liberal (2) 357 Elected
Conservative 345

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 410 Elected
Liberal (1) 350 Elected
Liberal (2) 337

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Apr, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 357 Elected
Conservative (2) 354 Elected
Liberal 328

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 394 Elected
Conservative (1) 343 Elected
Conservative (2) 335

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 484 Elected
Conservative (1) 463 Elected
Conservative (2) 151

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 412 Elected
Liberal (2) 335 Elected
Conservative (1) 251
Conservative (2) 210

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th May, 1853
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 473 Elected
Liberal (2) 385 Elected
Conservative (1) 196
Conservative (2) 157

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 339 Elected
Liberal (2) 271 Elected
Conservative 269
Liberal (3) 250

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 366 Elected
Conservative (2) 348 Elected
Liberal (1) 330
Liberal (2) 257

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Aug, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 305 Elected
Conservative 304 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 29th Jun, 1863
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 328 Elected
Liberal 310 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 396 Elected
Liberal (2) 367 Elected
Conservative (1) 295
Conservative (2) 268

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 669 Elected
Liberal (2) 609 Elected
Conservative (1) 508
Conservative (2) 424

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 617 Elected
Conservative 533 Elected
Liberal (2) 418
Liberal (3) 330

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 687 Elected
Liberal (2) 614 Elected
Conservative (1) 552
Conservative (2) 457

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 21st Jul, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 584 Elected
Liberal 582 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 28th Oct, 1881
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1046 Elected
Conservative 529 Elected

This was a by-election.


The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Berwick upon Tweed PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749971/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th May 2024