Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3697 Elected
Liberal (1) 3159 Elected
Liberal (2) 3030
Liberal (3) 2741

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 3709 Elected
Conservative (2) 3313 Elected
Liberal (1) 2518
Liberal (2) 1808

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 3839 Elected
Liberal 3212 Elected
Conservative (2) 3156

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 4193 Elected
Liberal 3739 Elected
Conservative (2) 3684

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 4381 Elected
Conservative (1) 2595 Elected
Conservative (2) 2476
Liberal (2) 171

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 4681 Elected
Liberal (2) 4531 Elected
Conservative 3632

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 4432 Elected
Liberal (2) 4285 Elected
Conservative 4205

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 5296 Elected
Liberal (2) 5228 Elected
Liberal (3) 4269

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th Apr, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 5173 Elected
Liberal 4977 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 8759 Elected
Liberal (2) 8714 Elected
Conservative 6694

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Mar, 1870
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 7882 Elected
Conservative 7062 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Jun, 1870
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 7816 Elected
Conservative 7238 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 8888 Elected
Liberal (2) 8732 Elected
Conservative (1) 8552
Conservative (2) 7626

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 16th Dec, 1878
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 9342 Elected
Conservative 7795 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 10704 Elected
Liberal (2) 10070 Elected
Conservative 9395
Liberal (3) 4100

More information about the 1880 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.

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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Bristol PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 06th November 2024