Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17301 Elected
Labour 12319
Liberal 8847

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21798 Elected
Labour 16386

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20271 Elected
Labour 12632
Liberal 5037

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20641 Elected
Labour 12932
Liberal 5516

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20071 Elected
Labour 14311
Liberal 7176

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Feb, 1965
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17599 Elected
Labour 13660
Liberal 4699
Independent Conservative 553

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22601 Elected
Labour 18462

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26549 Elected
Labour 17493

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22753 Elected
Liberal 16536
Labour 10455

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20478 Elected
Liberal 16298
Labour 10140

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24962 Elected
Liberal 18718
Labour 6321

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28876 Elected
Liberal 21702
Labour 3139
Wessex Regionalists 182
Independent 86

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31612 Elected
Social Democratic Party 20169
Labour 5455
Independent 372

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31546 Elected
Liberal Democrat 22573
Labour 5483
Green 609
Independent (1) 233
Independent (2) 117
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
Conservative 25012 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18736
Labour 10242
UK Independence Party 3332
Green 623
Independent 184
Natural Law 110

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24527 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15824
Labour 9199
UK Independence Party 1958
Green 1095

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25961 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14819
Labour 9457
UK Independence Party 2290
Green 1555
Independent 240

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23859 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17893
Labour 3690
UK Independence Party 1392
British National Party 765
Green 506
Independent (1) 257
Independent (2) 119

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28192 Elected
Labour 7771
UK Independence Party 6152
Liberal Democrat 5099
Green 2762
Independent 729

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30952 Elected
Labour 13619
Liberal Democrat 5982
UK Independence Party 1191
Green 1152
Independent 415

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30280 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10544
Labour 9675
Green 2486
Independent 745

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, Salisbury CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756800/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 07th May 2024