Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23657 Elected
Labour 14054
Liberal Democrat 11986
Referendum Party 1998
Socialist Labour Party 979
Green 480
UK Independence Party 339
Natural Law 115

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22621 Elected
Labour 12303
Liberal Democrat 9064
UK Independence Party 978
Independent 611

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25670 Elected
Labour 10814
Liberal Democrat 10808
UK Independence Party 1463

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23491 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17602
Labour 4769
UK Independence Party 1637
Green 655
National Front 643
Christian Party 131

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22745 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12036
UK Independence Party 7930
Labour 5268
Green 1396
National Health Action Party 583
Independent 52

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29156 Elected
Labour 11433
Liberal Democrat 8455
UK Independence Party 1613
Green 888
Independent 172

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31220 Elected
Labour 9448
Liberal Democrat 8482
Green 2172
Independent 358

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, Maidstone and the Weald CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748796/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th November 2024