Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20678 Elected
Liberal 12393
Conservative 9751
Plaid Cymru 896

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26577 Elected
Liberal 9027
Conservative 8632
Plaid Cymru 577
Green 450

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30352 Elected
Conservative 9598
Liberal Democrat 6178
Plaid Cymru/Green 1210

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29863 Elected
Conservative 5327
Liberal Democrat 5249
Referendum Party 1245
Plaid Cymru 1042
Green 519

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21883 Elected
Conservative 5603
Liberal Democrat 3936
Plaid Cymru 2720
UK Independence Party 657
Socialist Alliance 443

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20472 Elected
Conservative 5681
Liberal Democrat 5678
Plaid Cymru 2242
UK Independence Party 1145
Independent 761

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16847 Elected
Conservative 7541
Liberal Democrat 6264
Plaid Cymru 2005
British National Party 1657
Independent (1) 1419
UK Independence Party 862
Independent (2) 607
Green 438

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16938 Elected
Conservative 8769
UK Independence Party 7203
Plaid Cymru 2169
Liberal Democrat 1271
Green 746
Socialist Labour Party 697
Communist Party of Britain 144

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22134 Elected
Conservative 11894
Plaid Cymru 2059
UK Independence Party 1490
Liberal Democrat 852

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15546 Elected
Conservative 11804
Brexit Party 5742
Liberal Democrat 1831
Plaid Cymru 1441
Green 812

More information about the 2019 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, Torfaen CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747329/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 22nd May 2024