Overall Cornish parliamentary election results, 1950-2019

Here, I’ve aggregated the results for the individual Cornish seats to provide a picture of the proportion of the vote across Cornwall in each election. Those parties that did not contest all constituencies have been rounded up to allow for this and their results appear in italics.

2019

Conservative	173,117	54.4%
Labour	74,392	23.4%
Liberal Democrat	62,165	16.8%
Green	8,555	2.7%
MK	9,960	1.6%
Liberal	3,470	1.1%
The Common People	792	0.1%
mean turnout

1950

Conservative	89,060	44.2%
Labour	59,678	29.6%
Liberal	52,816	26.2%
mean turnout	83.5%

1951

Conservative	101,653	48.5%
Labour	67,111	32.0%
Liberal	40,716	19.4%
mean turnout	82.8%

1955

Conservative	92,185	46.1%
Labour	58,267	29.2%
Liberal	49,369	24.7%
mean turnout	78.5%

1959

Conservative	84,684	43.8%
Liberal	55,549	28.7%
Labour	53,100	27.5%
mean turnout	80.3%

1964

Conservative	79,551	40.9%
Liberal	63,504	32.7%
Labour	50,005	25.7%
Independent	1,325	0.7%
mean turnout	79.5%

1966

Conservative	84,217	41.4%
Liberal	62,791	30.9%
Labour	56,521	27.8%
mean turnout	82.3%

1970

Conservative	104,372	47.1%
Liberal	58,877	26.6%
Labour	53,642	24.2%
MK	4,800	2.2%
mean turnout	79.0%

1974 (Feb)

Conservative	101,495	41.1%
Liberal	92,747	37.6%
Labour	47,466	19.2%
MK	4,250	1.7%
Independent Conservative	885	0.4%
mean turnout	82.3%

1974 (Oct)

Conservative	101,501	41.6%
Liberal	81,766	33.5%
Labour	46,565	19.1%
Independent Liberal	11,230	4.6%
MK	1,920	0.8%
Anti Party System	740	0.3%
mean turnout	78.2%

1979

Conservative	130,149	49.7%
Liberal	87,994	33.6%
Labour	32,270	12.3%
MK	6,954	2.7%
Ecology	2,228	0.9%
NF	1,151	0.4%
CNP	1,135	0.4%
mean turnout	81.2%

1983

Conservative	126,182	48.4%
Liberal/SDP	104,365	40.0%
Labour	22,838	8.8%
MK	2,878	1.1%
Ecology	1,940	0.7%
CNP	1,820	0.7%
Independent	783	0.3%
mean turnout	77.5%

1987

Conservative	131,194	47.0%
Liberal/SDP	111,064	39.8%
Labour	34,994	12.5%
Loony	1,865	0.7%
mean turnout	79.0%

1992

Conservative	127,678	42.0%
Liberal/SDP	124,553	41.0%
Labour	41,593	13.7%
Liberal	2,837	0.9%
Green	2,588	0.9%
Loony	1,635	0.5%
Independent	1,380	0.5%
Anti Federalist League	1,135	0.4%
Natural Law	539	0.2%
mean turnout	81.5%

1997

Liberal Democrat	123,124	41.6%
Conservative	85,077	28.8%
Labour	47,913	16.2%
Referendum	18,208	6.2%
Independent Labour	8,455	2.9%
Ukip	3,658	1.2%
Green	2,410	0.8%
MK	2,383	0.8%
Liberal	1,758	0.6%
Independent	1,223	0.4%
Loony	805	0.3%
Natural Law	778	0.3%
mean turnout	74.6%

2001

Liberal Democrat	113,000	43.9%
Conservative	82,227	32.0%
Labour	43,674	17.0%
Ukip	9,290	3.6%
MK	5,342	2.1%
Liberal	3,245	1.3%
Independent	390	0.2%
mean turnout	64.7%

2005

Liberal Democrat	115,241	42.1%
Conservative	82,543	30.2%
Labour	41,140	15.0%
Ukip	12,863	4.7%
Green	8,690	3.2%
Independent	4,805	1.8%
MK	4,440	1.6%
Liberal	2,115	0.8%
Veritas	1,521	0.6%
Remove Tetris Masts	305	0.1%
mean turnout	65.9%

2010

Liberal Democrat	117,307	40.4%
Conservative	115,016	39.6%
Labour	24,257	8.3%
Ukip	13,763	4.7%
BNP	6,132	2.1%
MK	5,379	1.9%
Green	5,360	1.8%
Cornish Democrat	2,376	0.8%
Socialist Labour	1,008	0.3%
mean turnout	65.9%

2015

Conservative	127,079	42.3%
Liberal Democrat	66,056	22.0%
Ukip	40,785	13.6%
Labour	36,235	12.1%
Green	17,241	5.7%
MK	5,675	1.9%
Independent	3,426	1.2%
National Health Action Party	3,156	1.1%
Restore the Family	312	0.1%
Principles of Politics Party	222	0.1%
mean turnout	70.1%

2017

Conservative	152,428	47.0%
Labour	83,968	25.9%
Liberal Democrat	73,865	22.8%
Green	6,436	2.0%
Ukip	5,382	1.7%
Christian People’s Alliance	1,110	0.3%
Socialist Labour Party	828	0.3%
mean turnout	73.4%