Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30329 Elected
Liberal 10583
Labour 3587
Ecology Party 538

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33570 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13051
Labour 3903

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31380 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15023
Labour 4883
Green 594
Independent 190

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23570 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12470
Labour 8866
Referendum Party 3302
UK Independence Party 786

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21555 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11052
Labour 8702
UK Independence Party 3474

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24629 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11180
Labour 8457
UK Independence Party 2568

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28147 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15267
Labour 6524
Trust 2699
British National Party 1950

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30245 Elected
UK Independence Party 10170
Labour 7797
Liberal Democrat 4199
Green 2807

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36854 Elected
Labour 14689
Liberal Democrat 4485
UK Independence Party 2006
Green 1438

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 37590 Elected
Labour 11531
Liberal Democrat 7280
Green 2692

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, Bexhill and Battle CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748449/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th April 2024