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| Election of 26th May, 1955 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| National Liberal & Conservative | 22306 | Elected |
| Labour Party/Co-operative Party | 19147 | |
More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 8th Oct, 1959 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| National Liberal & Conservative | 23012 | Elected |
| Labour | 17906 | |
More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 15th Oct, 1964 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| National Liberal & Conservative | 21121 | Elected |
| Labour Party/Co-operative Party | 17974 | |
More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 31st Mar, 1966 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour Party/Co-operative Party | 19704 | Elected |
| National Liberal & Conservative | 18170 | |
More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 18th Jun, 1970 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Conservative | 20475 | Elected |
| Labour Party/Co-operative Party | 18936 | |
More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 28th Feb, 1974 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 20787 | Elected |
| Conservative | 18568 | |
| Liberal | 7216 | |
| British Campaign to Stop Immigration | 1164 | |
| Independent Democratic Alliance | 200 | |
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 | 21133 | Elected |
| Conservative | 16192 | |
| Liberal | 5884 | |
| Campaign for More Prosperous Britain | 339 | |
More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 3rd May, 1979 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 24309 | Elected |
| Conservative | 16554 | |
| Liberal | 3668 | |
| National Front | 633 | |
More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 9th Jun, 1983 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 19499 | Elected |
| Conservative | 16162 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 13301 | |
| Workers' Revolutionary Party | 139 | |
More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 11th Jun, 1987 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 25775 | Elected |
| Conservative | 18224 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 5657 | |
More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 9th Apr, 1992 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 26046 | Elected |
| Conservative | 16544 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 5150 | |
| Green | 735 | |
| Islamic Party of Britain | 471 | |
More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 1st May, 1997 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 18932 | Elected |
| Conservative | 15055 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 6737 | |
| Socialist Labour Party (1996) | 1551 | |
| Referendum Party | 1348 | |
| Green | 861 | |
| British National Party | 839 | |
| Socialist Party of Great Britain | 245 | |
More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 7th Jun, 2001 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 18401 | Elected |
| Conservative | 14236 | |
| Green | 2672 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 2437 | |
| UK Independence Party | 427 | |
| Asian League | 197 | |
More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 5th May, 2005 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 14570 | Elected |
| Conservative | 11544 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 6620 | |
| British National Party | 2525 | |
| Green | 1110 | |
More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 6th May, 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 18401 | Elected |
| Conservative | 12638 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 4732 | |
| British National Party | 1370 | |
| Respect | 1245 | |
| Green Party | 940 | |
| UK Independence Party | 812 | |
| Democratic Nationalist | 438 | |
More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 29th Mar, 2012 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Respect | 18341 | Elected |
| Labour | 8201 | |
| Conservative | 2746 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 1505 | |
| UK Independence Party | 1085 | |
| Green | 481 | |
| Democratic Nationalists | 344 | |
| Monster Raving Loony Party | 111 | |
This was a by-election.
| Election of 7th May, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 19977 | Elected |
| Respect | 8557 | |
| Conservative | 6160 | |
| UK Independence Party | 3140 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 1173 | |
| Green | 1085 | |
| Independent | 100 | |
| English Democrats | 98 | |
More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 8th Jun, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 29444 | Elected |
| Conservative | 7542 | |
| Independent (1) | 6345 | |
| UK Independence Party | 885 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 712 | |
| Green | 481 | |
| Independent (2) | 65 | |
| Independent (3) | 54 | |
More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 12th Dec, 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 33736 | Elected |
| Conservative | 6717 | |
| Brexit Party | 1556 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 1349 | |
| Green | 813 | |
| Independent | 90 | |
More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
| Election of 4th Jul, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Outcome |
| Labour | 11724 | Elected |
| Independent (1) | 11017 | |
| Green | 3690 | |
| Independent (2) | 3547 | |
| Conservative | 3055 | |
| Reform UK | 2958 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 756 | |
| Independent (3) | 334 | |
More information about the 2024 General Election is available here.
This was a General Election
This very simplified view of the changing industrial base of communities does identify the traditional sectors of Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing which dominated many areas in the nineteenth century, but provides no breakdown of the service sector, in which the large majority of us now work.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Bradford West Constituency (BCon) through time | Historical Statistics on Political Life | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757074/cube/POL_PARTY
Date accessed: 10th April 2026