Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21433 Elected
Labour 20563
Social Democratic Party 11678
Ecology Party 493

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25512 Elected
Labour 24150
Social Democratic Party 8372
Moderate Labour 689

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27629 Elected
Labour 26221
Liberal Democrat 6380
Green 628

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23213 Elected
Conservative 17072
Liberal Democrat 4133
Referendum Party 1691
British National Party 472
Green 384

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19224 Elected
Conservative 14160
Liberal Democrat 3989
Green 595
UK Independence Party 574

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17974 Elected
Conservative 12186
Liberal Democrat 5731
British National Party 2668
Green 649

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21565 Elected
Conservative 17159
Liberal Democrat 8095
British National Party 3685
Green 605

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21826 Elected
Conservative 15769
UK Independence Party 9080
Liberal Democrat 2396
Green 1232
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 123
Patriotic Socialist Party 53

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Oct, 2016
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17506 Elected
English Democrats 969
British National Party 548
Independent (1) 517
By-election protest 241
No to terrorism, yes to Britain 220
Independent (2) 153
Independent (3) 118
National Front 87
One Love Party 34

This was a by-election.

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29844 Elected
Conservative 20883
Liberal Democrat 1224
Independent (1) 1076
Green 695
Independent (2) 58

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22594 Elected
Conservative 19069
Heavy Woollen District Independents 6432
Liberal Democrat 2462
Brexit Party 1678
Green 692

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul, 2021
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13296 Elected
Conservative 12973
Workers' Party 8264
Liberal Democrat 1254
The Yorkshire Party 816
English Democrats 207
UK Independence Party 151
Official Monster Raving Loony Party 107
Alliance for Green Socialism 104
Christian People's Alliance 102
Freedom Alliance - Integrity, Society, Economy 100
The For Britain Movement 97
Rejoin EU 75
Social Democratic Party (1990) 66
Independent (1) 50
Heritage Party 33

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, Batley and Spen BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755922/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 04th October 2024