Great Britain Country (Dep) : Political Life Statistics

These simple graphs compare Britain with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Percentage voting Conservative 1833 to 2015 For most of the period we cover, the left has been divided between Labour and Liberals (now the Lib…
Percentage voting for Nationalist parties 1918 to 2015 Here we combine every kind of Nationalist: Irish, Scottish, Welsh and even Isle of Wight. The kind…
Election Turnout: Percentage of Registered Voters Voting 1885 to 2024 This rate is a measure of how involved people were in the democratic process: did they bother to vo…

We hold these detailed statistics for Britain, which we graph and tabulate here:

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Groupings of Political Parties 1833 to 2024 Groupings of Political Parties (7)
Persons Voting or Not Voting 1885 to 2024 Numbers of persons voting or not voting (2)
Total Electorate 1833 to 2024 Total Electorate (1)
Total Votes Cast 1833 to 2015 Total Votes Cast (1)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.