Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25112 Elected
Conservative 11681
National Front 3107

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 23336 Elected
Conservative 8537
Liberal 3619
National Front 2022

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 23791 Elected
Conservative 14323
National Front 1351

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18896 Elected
Conservative 12257
Social Democratic Party 6094

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19925 Elected
Conservative 14672
Social Democratic Party 4877

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22251 Elected
Conservative 14421
Liberal Democrat 3925

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Speaker 23969 Elected
Independent 8546
National Democratic Resistance 4181

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Nov, 2000
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 9640 Elected
Conservative 6408
Liberal Democrat 1791
British National Party 794
UK Independence Party 246

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19352 Elected
Conservative 7997
Liberal Democrat 2168
British National Party 1428
UK Independence Party 499
Socialist Labour Party 396

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18951 Elected
Conservative 8057
Liberal Democrat 3583
British National Party 3456
UK Independence Party 870

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16263 Elected
Conservative 10612
Liberal Democrat 4336
British National Party 3394
UK Independence Party 1566

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour & Co-operative 16578 Elected
UK Independence Party 8836
Conservative 8365
Green 697
Liberal Democrat 550

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18789 Elected
Conservative 14329
UK Independence Party 2320
Liberal Democrat 333
Green 323

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17419 Elected
Labour 13620
Brexit Party 1841
Liberal Democrat 915
Green 664

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, West Bromwich West BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747524/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th October 2024