Historical Data and Plots

Data is available both in Excel Pivot table format and in flat file format.

Historical data Excel Pivot Tables

Historical election data from 1955 to 2019 in Microsoft Excel Pivot Table format. Lets you view the data (Votes, Seats) through any of the given dimensions (Constituency, Area, Year, Party).

Full Pivot Table download (508 kB Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
Lite Pivot Table download (26 kB Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet, excludes Constituency)

Historical data flat files

Historical data of previous election results (1955 to 2019) are available. They are stored as flat files and are available for download.

Constituency boundaries from 2024 (2023 Boundary Review for UK)
- 2024 (Actual) Election Result (58k, Reform-Green format)
- 2019 (Implied) Election Result (56k, Brexit-Green format)
Constituency boundaries for 2010 to 2019 (Fifth Boundary Review for UK, 2008)
- 2019 (Actual) Election Result (53k, Brexit-Green format)
- 2017 (Actual) Election Result (55k, UKIP-Green format)
- 2015 (Actual) Election Result (55k, UKIP-Green format)
- 2010 (Actual) Election Result (51k, UKIP-Green format)
- 2010 (Actual) Election Result (51k)
- 2005 (Implied) Election Result (50k)
Unused Constituency boundaries (Abandoned Sixth Boundary Review), 600 seats
- 2017 (Implied) Election Result (51k, Second review 2018)
- 2010 (Implied) Election Result (48k, First review 2013)
Constituency boundaries for 2005 (Fifth Boundary Review for Scotland only, 2005)
- 2005 (Actual) Election Result (50k)
- 2001 (Implied) Election Result (49k)
Constituency boundaries from 1997 to 2001 (Fourth Boundary Review, 1995)
- 2001 (Actual) Election Result (50k)
- 1997 Election Result (49k)
- 1992 (Implied) Election Result (46k)
Constituency boundaries from 1983 to 1992 (Third Boundary Review, 1983)
- 1992 (Actual) Election Result (49k)
- 1987 Election Result (48k)
- 1983 Election Result (41k)
Constituency boundaries from 1974 to 1979 (Second Boundary Review, 1969)
- 1979 Election Result (45k)
- 1974 October Election Result (44k)
- 1974 February Election Result (44k)
Constituency boundaries from 1955 to 1970 (First Boundary Review, 1954)
- 1970 Election Result (43k)
- 1966 Election Result (42k)
- 1964 Election Result (42k)
- 1959 Election Result (42k)
- 1955 Election Result (41k)

Many thanks to Richard Kimber and Political Science Resources for generously making the election results for 1955 to 1979 available.

Note that the 2010 election is available as both the actual results (old constituency boundaries) and as data implied by the 2010 election results projected onto the revised constituency boundaries which were not used at the 2015 election. Similarly, the 2005, 2001 and 1992 elections are available both as the actual result, and as the result implied by the relevant boundary changes.

Details of the file format are given below.

Notes on the data file format

This format applies to the all the historical data flat file downloads.

The number of constituencies varies:

Election years	Total	England	Scotland	Wales	Northern Ireland
1955, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970	630	511	71	36	12
1974Feb, 1974Oct, 1979	635	516	71	36	12
1983, 1987	650	523	72	38	17
1992(Actual)	651	524	72	38	17
1992(Implied), 1997, 2001(Actual)	659	529	72	40	18
2001(Implied), 2005(Actual)	646	529	59	40	18
2005(Implied), 2010(Actual), 2015(Actual), 2017(Actual), 2019 (Actual)	650	533	59	40	18
2010(Implied)	600	502	52	30	16
2019(Implied), 2024(Actual)	650	543	57	32	18

The Northern Ireland constituencies are included.
Data is as at the date of each election, and does not reflect any subsequent by-elections.
Implied election Data may omit the name of the sitting MP, though the 2001(Implied) and 2005(Implied) will give a suggestion where possible.
The file contains one row per constituency, plus an initial header row.
Each row contains a number of entries (in columns), which are divided from each other with semi-colon ";" delimiters.

The first five columns are always:

Name : the full name of the constituency
MP : the name of the MP elected in the election
Area : an integer code representing the area the constituency is in. Numbering goes from 1 (Northern Ireland) to 12 (South East). See area definitions for details.
County : county (or historic county or similar geography) containing the seat
Electorate : the integer number of voters on the roll in that election

The next columns contain the votes for each party. The number of parties shown varies across the years and can be six-party (11 columns in total), or eight-party (13 columns in total). The meanings of the columns is also different for Northern Ireland. In Great Britain, the party columns are as follows:

Format	Col 6	Col 7	Col 8	Col 9	Col 10	Col 11	Col 12	Col 13
Six-party	CON	LAB	LIB	NAT	MIN	OTH	Unused	Unused
Eight-party	CON	LAB	LIB	UKIP/Reform	Green	NAT	MIN	OTH

CON : the integer number of votes received by the Conservative candidate
LAB : the integer number of votes received by the Labour candidate
LIB : the integer number of votes received by the Liberal Democrat candidate, or Liberal candidate pre-1988
NAT : the integer number of votes received by the nationalist candidate (SNP in Scotland, PC in Wales)
MIN : the integer number of votes received by a minor party candidate (separated from 'Other' to preserve rankings), or the SDP candidate 1983-1987
OTH : the integer number of votes received by all other candidates

In the eight-party format, there are 13 columns "UKIP-Green" format, which has the same first eight columns as the six-party format above, and then has two extra columns ("UKIP"/"Brexit"/"Reform" and "Green") after the "LIB" column.

UKIP / Brexit / Reform: the integer number of votes received by the UKIP, Brexit or Reform UK party candidate
Green : the integer number of votes received by the Green candidate
NAT : the integer number of votes received by the nationalist candidate (SNP in Scotland, PC in Wales)
MIN : the integer number of votes received by a minor party candidate (separated from 'Other' to preserve rankings)
OTH : the integer number of votes received by all other candidates

In Northern Ireland, the party vote columns have different meanings:

Format	Col 6	Col 7	Col 8	Col 9	Col 10	Col 11	Col 12	Col 13
Six-party	OUP/UUP	SDLP	DUP	SF	MIN	OTH	Unused	Unused
Eight-party	OUP/UUP	SDLP	DUP	Alliance	Green	SF	MIN	OTH

In the six-party format these are the precise definitions:

OUP/UUP : votes received by the OUP, UUP, or UCUNF candidate in Northern Ireland (1974 and later). For 1970 and earlier, these Unionists sat as part of the Conservative party.
SDLP : votes received by the SDLP candidate in Northern Ireland
DUP : votes received by the DUP candidate in Northern Ireland
SF : votes received by the Sinn Fein candidate in Northern Ireland
MIN : the integer number of votes received by a minor party candidate (separated from 'Other' to preserve rankings)
OTH : the integer number of votes received by all other candidates, including Conservative and UKIP

And similarly in the eight-party format:

OUP/UUP : votes received by the OUP, UUP, or UCUNF candidate in Northern Ireland (1974 and later). For 1970 and earlier, these Unionists sat as part of the Conservative party.
SDLP : votes received by the SDLP candidate in Northern Ireland
DUP : votes received by the DUP candidate in Northern Ireland
Alliance : votes received by the Alliance candidate in Northern Ireland
Green : votes received by the Green candidate in Northern Ireland
SF : votes received by the Sinn Fein candidate in Northern Ireland
MIN : the integer number of votes received by a minor party candidate (separated from 'Other' to preserve rankings)
OTH : the integer number of votes received by all other candidates, including Conservative and UKIP