Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 509 Elected
Conservative 498 Elected
Liberal (2) 478

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
Conservative 507 Elected
Liberal (1) 403 Elected
Liberal (2) 123

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 464 Elected
Conservative (2) 433 Elected
Liberal 253

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 415 Elected
Conservative (1) 365 Elected
Conservative (2) 346

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th Feb, 1851
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 427 Elected
Conservative 115 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 433 Elected
Liberal 338 Elected
Conservative (2) 313

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 439 Elected
Liberal (2) 374 Elected
Liberal (3) 319

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 497 Elected
Conservative 306 Elected
Liberal (2) 296

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Jan, 1860
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 320 Elected
Conservative 257 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 3rd Aug, 1863
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 20th Apr, 1864
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 359 Elected
Conservative 330 Elected
Liberal (2) 288

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) 913 Elected
Conservative 900 Elected
Liberal (2) 680

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 21st Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Aug, 1872
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 658 Elected
Conservative 578 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 934 Elected
Conservative (1) 861 Elected
Conservative (2) 709

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) 1154 Elected
Liberal (2) 1029 Elected
Conservative (1) 904
Conservative (2) 627

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th May, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1111 Elected
Liberal 1075

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1156 Elected
Liberal 947

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1132 Elected
Liberal 1092

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th Feb, 1893
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1228 Elected
Conservative 1165

This was a by-election.

Election of 26th Jun, 1893
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1191 Elected
Conservative 1159

This was a by-election.

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1245 Elected
Conservative 1188

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1385 Elected
Conservative 1269

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1837 Elected
Conservative 1030

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1924 Elected
Conservative 1515

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1679 Elected
Conservative 1627

More information about the 1910 Dec 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, Pontefract PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749820/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024