Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15075 Elected
Conservative 5071
Liberal 4281

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 14753 Elected
Conservative 4142
Liberal 2382

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 14117 Elected
Conservative 4413
Liberal 1052
National Front 365

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Sep, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 7494 Elected
Liberal 1502
Conservative 1275
Independent Labour 187
Ecology Party 129
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident 12

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27353 Elected
Conservative 8868
Social Democratic Party 4956
National Front 729

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27428 Elected
Conservative 7561
Social Democratic Party 5250

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23336 Elected
Conservative 5299
Liberal Democrat 3151
Communist League 167
Natural Law 167

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23803 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4121
Conservative 3964
Socialist Labour Party 810
Referendum Party 742
Independent 97

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17812 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4070
Conservative 2328
Green 1018
Socialist Labour Party 484
ProLife Alliance 216

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16993 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7217
Conservative 2504
Green 1292
National Front 421
Independent Progressive Labour 382
UK Independence Party 272
Socialist Labour Party 183

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21059 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10620
Conservative 4704
British National Party 1636
Green 915
UK Independence Party 607
Socialist Labour Party 153
Independent 120
Workers' Revolutionary Party 59
Socialist Equality Party 54

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 2012
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 11507 Elected
Liberal Democrat 1571
Conservative 754
UK Independence Party 749
Green 652
British National Party 492
Pirate Party UK 308
Trade Unionists & Socialists Against Cuts 220
Respect - The Unity Coalition 182
Monster Raving Loony William Hill Party 78
People's National Democratic Party 71
Communist League 64

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour & Co-operative 27772 Elected
Conservative 6133
UK Independence Party 5033
Green 3838
Liberal Democrat 1867
Pirate Party UK 346
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 270
Communist League Election Campaign 72

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 38490 Elected
Conservative 7045
Liberal Democrat 1678
UK Independence Party 1469
Green 846
Pirate Party UK 192

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 36823 Elected
Conservative 7734
Liberal Democrat 3420
Brexit Party 2335
Green 1870
Socialist Equality Party 107

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, Manchester Central BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748073/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 02nd May 2024