Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 4317 Elected
Liberal (2) 3320 Elected
Liberal (3) 2185
Liberal (4) 913
Liberal (5) 316

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Mar, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2869 Elected
Conservative 2055 Elected
Liberal (2) 791
Liberal (3) 172

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2956 Elected
Liberal (2) 2781 Elected
Liberal (3) 1862
Liberal (4) 378

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 3512 Elected
Liberal (2) 3350 Elected
Conservative 2952
Liberal (3) 764
Liberal (4) 662

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Mar, 1838
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 4166 Elected
Liberal (1) 3762 Elected
Liberal (2) 186

This was a by-election.

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 4661 Elected
Liberal (2) 4587 Elected
Conservative (1) 3410
Conservative (2) 3383
Liberal (3) 61

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 (1) 5367 Elected
Liberal (2) 5343 Elected
Conservative 3677
Liberal (3) 662
Chartists 1

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) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 16th Aug, 1854
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 20th Dec, 1854
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 6919 Elected
Liberal (2) 4166 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 28th Jul, 1855
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Feb, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 6803 Elected
Liberal (2) 3354 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 5029 Elected
Liberal (2) 4663 Elected
Conservative 1102

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 4219 Elected
Liberal (2) 2318 Elected
Liberal (3) 1083

This was a by-election.

Election of 19th Apr, 1861
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 5269 Elected
Conservative 2612 Elected
Liberal (2) 2369
Liberal (3) 65
Liberal (4) 1

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 7159 Elected
Liberal (2) 6488 Elected
Liberal (3) 4121

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) 9782 Elected
Liberal (2) 9444 Elected
Liberal (3) 5591
Liberal (4) 4058
Conservative 3989

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
Conservative 9849 Elected
Liberal (1) 8251 Elected
Liberal (2) 7882
Liberal (3) 294

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) 14147 Elected
Liberal (2) 14003 Elected
Conservative (1) 11890
Conservative (2) 11888

More information about the 1880 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, Marylebone PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744160/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024