Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21898 Elected
Conservative 8704
Liberal 6376

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22880 Elected
Conservative 13587

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18682 Elected
Conservative 12087

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19092 Elected
Conservative 12609

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18111 Elected
Conservative 11620

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18777 Elected
Conservative 9851

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18564 Elected
Conservative 11868
Independent Progressive Party 658

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17111 Elected
Conservative 9817
Liberal 7773
National Front 544

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 17958 Elected
Conservative 8754
Liberal 5378

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 17927 Elected
Conservative 12336
Liberal 4253
Ecology Party 334
National Front 250
Communist Party 106
WRP 92

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21355 Elected
Labour 15476
Liberal 10796
Workers' Party 194

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22772 Elected
Labour 14996
Liberal 11922

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22419 Elected
Labour 22153
Liberal Democrat 6706
Green 433
Natural Law 93

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27346 Elected
Conservative 17876
Liberal Democrat 6951
Referendum Party 1777
Loyal Conservative 512
Socialist Labour Party 495
Natural Law 100

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21624 Elected
Conservative 15761
Liberal Democrat 6750
Green 797
UK Independence Party 471
Independent 211

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21097 Elected
Conservative 15638
Liberal Democrat 7616
Green 1252
UK Independence Party 1122
Independent 308

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Jul, 2009
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13591 Elected
Labour 6243
Liberal Democrat 4803
UK Independence Party 4068
Green 3350
Put An Honest Man into Parliament 953
British National Party 941
Independent (1) 166
Official Monster Raving Loony Party 144
None of the Above Party 59
Libertarian Party 36
Independent (2) 23

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17280 Elected
Labour 13379
Liberal Democrat 7783
UK Independence Party 1878
Green 1245
British National Party 747
Independent 143
Christian Party 118

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19052 Elected
Labour 14589
UK Independence Party 5986
Green 1939
Liberal Democrat 1894
Independent 132

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21900 Elected
Labour 21393
Liberal Democrat 1480
Green 782
Pirate Party UK 340

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23397 Elected
Labour 18659
Liberal Democrat 2663
Green 1078
UK Independence Party 488

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, Norwich North BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754085/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 31st October 2024