Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17288 Elected
Social Democratic Party 9573
Conservative 7852
Scottish National Party 3566
Communist Party of Great Britain 308

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22528 Elected
Conservative 6224
Social Democratic Party 5891
Scottish National Party 4935

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19642 Elected
Scottish National Party 7207
Conservative 6650
Liberal Democrat 3216
Natural Law 112

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21583 Elected
Scottish National Party 8263
Conservative 4885
Liberal Democrat 4086
Referendum Party 269

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17249 Elected
Scottish National Party 6525
Liberal Democrat 3909
Conservative 3514
Scottish Socialist Party 1294

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General 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, Clydebank and Milngavie CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12736034/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024