Political Parties


Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19395 Elected
Scottish National Party 8731
Liberal Democrat 4728
Conservative 2651
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party 716
Scottish Socialist Party 705
UK Independence Party 440

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Nov, 2008
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19946 Elected
Scottish National Party 13209
Conservative 1381
Liberal Democrat 947
Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party 296
Scottish Socialist Party (1998) 212
UK Independence Party 117
Solidarity 87

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25247 Elected
Scottish National Party 8799
Liberal Democrat 3108
Conservative 2922
UK Independence Party 425

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 28459 Elected
Labour & Co-operative 14562
Conservative 3685
Liberal Democrat 892

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 17291 Elected
Labour 14024
Conservative 7876
Liberal Democrat 1208

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 21234 Elected
Labour 9477
Conservative 6920
Liberal Democrat 2639
Brexit Party 1276

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12797758/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th September 2024