Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19637 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18760
Labour 8796
Referendum Party 2552
Independent 2369
UK Independence Party 999
Green 548
Rainbow Dream Ticket 108

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21914 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18317
Labour 6005
UK Independence Party 3010

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21112 Elected
Liberal Democrat 19165
Labour 6185
UK Independence Party 3914
Independent 199

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21940 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17013
Labour 3538
UK Independence Party 2890
Green 1181
British National Party 624
Independent (1) 390
Independent (2) 267

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24941 Elected
UK Independence Party 6656
Labour 5988
Green 4845
Liberal Democrat 4667

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26972 Elected
Labour 13495
Liberal Democrat 6466
Green 2097
UK Independence Party 1240

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27751 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15027
Labour 8860
Independent 544

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757840/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 12th May 2024