Search for a place
Search for a place
| Election of 16th Mar, 1949 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 18606 | |
| Conservative | 16454 | |
This was a by-election.
| Election of 23rd Feb, 1950 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 22846 | |
| Conservative | 19181 | |
| Liberal | 8306 | |
More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 25th Oct, 1951 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 22766 | |
| Conservative | 21118 | |
| Liberal | 5573 | |
More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 26th May, 1955 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 20092 | |
| Conservative | 17309 | |
| Liberal | 7046 | |
More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 8th Oct, 1959 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 18949 | |
| Conservative | 16993 | |
| Liberal | 7654 | |
More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 15th Oct, 1964 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 21582 | |
| Conservative | 18220 | |
More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 31st Mar, 1966 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 21591 | |
| Conservative | 16361 | |
More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 18th Jun, 1970 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 16583 | |
| Conservative | 16114 | |
| Liberal | 5137 | |
More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 28th Feb, 1974 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 14492 | |
| Conservative | 14377 | |
| Liberal | 11254 | |
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 | 14971 | |
| Conservative | 14325 | |
| Liberal | 9136 | |
| Other | 157 | |
More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 3rd May, 1979 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Conservative | 16797 | |
| Labour | 15617 | |
| Liberal | 7369 | |
More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
This classification of industry is that used by the 2011 Census, and forms the basic for our standardisation of historical information on industrial structure. The modern data are a classification of workers by their employers' business and count them by their place of work. However, before 1951 they are counted by place of residence, and before 1921 workers have to be classified by their individual occupations. Here we break the numbers in each industry down by gender, but this is not possible with the 2011 dat...
a, only with the re-districted and re-classified historical statisics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Sowerby Constituency (CCon) through time | Historical Statistics on Political Life | Groupings of Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742484/cube/POL_PARTY_GROUP
Date accessed: 02nd June 2026