Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 10381 Elected
Labour 8122
Scottish National Party 6710
Conservative 3148
Referendum Party 369
Green 230
UK Independence Party 212

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 9041 Elected
Labour 6297
Scottish National Party 5273
Conservative 3513
Scottish Socialist Party 544
Independent 199

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 13957 Elected
Labour 5789
Scottish National Party 3686
Conservative 2835
Independent 848
Scottish Socialist Party 548

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 11907 Elected
Labour 7081
Scottish National Party 5516
Conservative 3744
Independent 520

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 15831 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11987
Labour 3061
Conservative 2326
UK Independence Party 981

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 11061 Elected
Scottish National Party 9017
Conservative 6990
Labour 3833

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 11705 Elected
Scottish National Party 11501
Conservative 5176
Labour 1936
Brexit Party 1139

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, Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12753421/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 04th May 2024