Political Parties


Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24504 Elected
Conservative 5593
Liberal 4674

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30299 Elected
Conservative 10269
Liberal 5109

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30486 Elected
Conservative 11340
Liberal 3387

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27129 Elected
Conservative 12082

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23454 Elected
Conservative 11454
Liberal 5648

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23055 Elected
Conservative 8296
Liberal 5463

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22994 Elected
Conservative 7584
Liberal 4181

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21097 Elected
Conservative 9309

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22846 Elected
Liberal 8012
Conservative 7154

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21546 Elected
Conservative 5256
Liberal 5245
National Front 1661

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 18111 Elected
Conservative 11103
Liberal 3679
National Front 1021
Independent Labour 400

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14415 Elected
Conservative 10389
Liberal 8770
National Front 646

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15307 Elected
Conservative 11898
Liberal 7336

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18224 Elected
Conservative 11956
Liberal Democrat 5133

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1994
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13704 Elected
Liberal Democrat 2290
Conservative 1976
National Front 551
UK Independence Party 406
Natural Law 90

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21698 Elected
Conservative 5802
Liberal Democrat 3128
Referendum Party 1283
British National Party 894
People's Labour Party 159

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15302 Elected
Conservative 5768
Liberal Democrat 2450
British National Party 1606

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13826 Elected
Conservative 4943
British National Party 4916
Liberal Democrat 3211
UK Independence Party 803
Green 618
Independent 530
Workers' Revolutionary Party 59

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24628 Elected
Conservative 8073
British National Party 6620
Liberal Democrat 3719
UK Independence Party 1300
Christian Party 482
Green 317
Monster Raving Loony Party 82
Independent 77
The Restoration Party 45

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24826 Elected
UK Independence Party 9554
Conservative 7019
Green 897
Liberal Democrat 562
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 183

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32319 Elected
Conservative 10711
UK Independence Party 3031
Green 724
Liberal Democrat 599
Independent 295

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27219 Elected
Conservative 11792
Brexit Party 3186
Liberal Democrat 1482
Green 820

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, Barking PBCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744705/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 14th May 2024