Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23424 Elected
Conservative 15456
Scottish National Party 13819
Communist Party 693

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21810 Elected
Scottish National Party 19106
Conservative 8513
Liberal 2644

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31401 Elected
Conservative 17128
Scottish National Party 9090
Communist Party 658

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17545 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13199
Conservative 11483
Scottish National Party 4795
Communist Party of Great Britain 256

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24491 Elected
Social Democratic Party 11867
Conservative 7344
Scottish National Party 6275

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24055 Elected
Scottish National Party 12063
Conservative 9781
Liberal Democrat 5377

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27584 Elected
Scottish National Party 10200
Conservative 5863
Liberal Democrat 3527
People's Labour Party 1170
Referendum Party 306
Natural Law 146

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22205 Elected
Scottish National Party 9450
Liberal Democrat 4278
Conservative 4238
Scottish Socialist Party 1519

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, East Kilbride CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745680/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th April 2024