Political Parties


Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20111 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8549
Scottish National Party 8026
Conservative 4376
Scottish Socialist Party 689
UK Independence Party 643

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Feb, 2006
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 12391 Elected
Labour 10591
Scottish National Party 7261
Conservative 2702
Scottish Socialist Party (1998) 537
Scottish Christian Party 411
Abolish Forth Bridge Tolls 374
UK Independence Party Scotland 208
The Common Good 103

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22639 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17169
Scottish National Party 5201
Conservative 3305
UK Independence Party 633

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 28096 Elected
Labour 17744
Conservative 6623
Liberal Democrat 2232
Green 1195

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 18121 Elected
Labour 17277
Conservative 12593
Liberal Democrat 3019

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 23727 Elected
Labour 13028
Conservative 11207
Liberal Democrat 4262
Green 1258

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, Dunfermline and West Fife CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12797710/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th May 2024