Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 24472 Elected
Labour 24285

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 25632 Elected
Labour 25165

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 24410 Elected
Labour 21077
Plaid Cymru 3835

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1957
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23679 Elected
Liberal 20610
Plaid Cymru 5741

This was a by-election.

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23399 Elected
Liberal 16766
Conservative 6147
Plaid Cymru 2545

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21424 Elected
Liberal 15210
Plaid Cymru 5495
Conservative 4996

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21221 Elected
Liberal 11988
Plaid Cymru 7416
Conservative 5338

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Jul, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 16179 Elected
Labour 13743
Liberal 8650
Conservative 2934

This was a by-election.

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18719 Elected
Plaid Cymru 14812
Liberal 10707
Conservative 4975

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17165 Elected
Plaid Cymru 17162
Liberal 9698
Conservative 6037

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 23325 Elected
Labour 19685
Liberal 5393
Conservative 2962
British Candidate 342

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18667 Elected
Plaid Cymru 16689
Conservative 12272
Liberal 4186
National Front 149
Keep Britain United 126

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16459 Elected
Conservative 15305
Plaid Cymru 14099
Social Democratic Party 5737
Ecology Party 374
British National Party 154

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19128 Elected
Conservative 14811
Plaid Cymru 12457
Social Democratic Party 7203
Green 481

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20879 Elected
Plaid Cymru 17957
Conservative 12782
Liberal Democrat 5353

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754700/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024