Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31022 Elected
Liberal 16027
Labour 15413
Unofficial Conservative 1041

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 28013 Elected
Labour 15172
Liberal 14022

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 38451 Elected
Labour 13321
Liberal 11496
National Front 930
Wessex Regionalists 251

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32191 Elected
Liberal 13988
Labour 6383
Independent Conservative 1842
National Front 511
Independent 300
Wessex Regionalists 68

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33980 Elected
Liberal 16144
Labour 6678
Independent Conservative 1938
Green 711
Independent 328

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35075 Elected
Liberal Democrat 22147
Labour 4975
Green 510
Monster Raving Loony Party 236
Independent 110
Natural Law 108

More information about the 1992 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, Windsor and Maidenhead CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12752246/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 19th May 2024