Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25107 Elected
Conservative 10934
Liberal Democrat 3497
Referendum Party 1637
Socialist Labour Party 399

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20096 Elected
Conservative 9724
Liberal Democrat 3156
Independent (1) 347
Independent (2) 302

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17355 Elected
Conservative 8392
Liberal Democrat 5556
UK Independence Party 1361

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14640 Elected
Conservative 12091
Liberal Democrat 6774
UK Independence Party 1686
British National Party 1447
Green 396

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15393 Elected
Conservative 12259
UK Independence Party 6329
Independent (1) 1097
Green 887
Liberal Democrat 770
Independent (2) 206

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20916 Elected
Conservative 17485
UK Independence Party 1247
Liberal Democrat 554

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20306 Elected
Labour 13855
Brexit Party 2044
Liberal Democrat 875
Green 670

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12736873/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 21st May 2024