Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27498 Elected
Social Democratic Party 15252
Labour 14898

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27164 Elected
Social Democratic Party 16261
Labour 15699
Independent Conservative 401

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29447 Elected
Labour 20982
Liberal Democrat 10196
Natural Law 264

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24936 Elected
Conservative 19341
Liberal Democrat 7161
Independent 1263
People's Labour Party 267

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18484 Elected
Conservative 17288
Liberal Democrat 6021
UK Independence Party 798
ProLife Alliance 230

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22172 Elected
Labour 16226
Liberal Democrat 6318

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27894 Elected
Labour 10471
Liberal Democrat 8010
UK Independence Party 1643
Green 796
Independent 158

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25281 Elected
Labour 13128
UK Independence Party 6556
Liberal Democrat 3140
Green 1742
Independent 216
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 142

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26374 Elected
Labour 19005
Liberal Democrat 3836
UK Independence Party 1441
Green 835
Independent 178

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27394 Elected
Labour 16439
Liberal Democrat 6602
Green 1618

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, Welwyn Hatfield CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747494/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024