Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21771 Elected
Conservative 18546
Liberal 10462
Communist Party 507

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 22384 Elected
Conservative 16193
Liberal 7429
Communist Party 281
Independent 106
Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident 68

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 21668 Elected
Conservative 21050
Liberal 4258
National Front 966

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Jun, 1982
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13306 Elected
Social Democratic Party (1981) 9032
Labour 7475
National Front 547
Independent Liberal 123
Independent (1) 84
Democratic Monarchist 66
Independent (2) 22
Computer Democrat 18

This was a by-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, Merton Mitcham and Morden BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12741716/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 05th November 2024