Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24290 Elected
Labour 16123
Liberal 11478

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22392 Elected
Labour 15618
Liberal 8952

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29447 Elected
Labour 13994
Liberal 6528
National Front 1110

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27373 Elected
Social Democratic Party 11995
Labour 8289
Ecology Party 452
British National Party 330

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31536 Elected
Social Democratic Party 10023
Labour 9499
Green 695

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Dec, 1988
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13183 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8679
Labour 6261
Social Democratic Party (1988) 4077
Green 672
Independent National Front 286
Monster Raving Loony Party 208
Independent (1) 33
Independent (2) 16

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32407 Elected
Labour 12219
Liberal Democrat 9265
Independent 552

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24117 Elected
Labour 18865
Liberal Democrat 7074
Referendum Party 2208
British National Party 743

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20833 Elected
Labour 12407
Liberal Democrat 7884
UK Independence Party 1290

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23783 Elected
Labour 9425
Liberal Democrat 8279
British National Party 1728
UK Independence Party 1014
English Democrats 631

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25148 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10017
Labour 6641
British National Party 1982
UK Independence Party 1852
Green 659
English Democrats 285

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27027 Elected
UK Independence Party 9049
Labour 7962
Liberal Democrat 3448
Green 1782
Young People's Party 80

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31462 Elected
Labour 13219
Liberal Democrat 2884
UK Independence Party 1871
Green 1233
Young People's Party 110

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32364 Elected
Labour 10191
Liberal Democrat 5387
Green 1975
Young People's Party 181
Social Democratic Party (1990) 170

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, Epping Forest CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748700/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024