Socialist Labour Party (UK) - Electoral Performance

Electoral Performance

At the 2001 general election the party took about 3% of the vote in seats it stood in.

The Party managed to get its highest percentage share in any individual parliamentary constituency at the 2005 general election when it gained 14.2% of the votes cast in Glasgow North East.

The Socialist Labour Party did not contest the 2004 European Elections, but fielded a full list of candidates for England, Scotland and Wales in the 2009 European Elections, where it took 173,115 votes, or 1.1% of the national vote.

The Socialist Labour Party ran 23 candidates in the 2010 general election. The best results were those of Kai Andersen in Liverpool West Derby (614 votes - 1.7%) and Ken Capstick in Barnsley East (601 votes - 1.6%). In the local elections held on the same day, Andersen also received 244 votes (4.2%) in the Croxteth ward of Liverpool.

The Socialist Labour Party contested both the Scottish Parliamentary and Welsh Assembly Elections in 2011. In Scotland the Party's share of the vote increased from 0.7% (in 2007) to 0.9% in an election at which nearly every other political party saw a decrease in votes due to the Scottish National Party (SNP) landslide. In Scotland the SLP beat all other left-wing opposition and, amongst others, the British National Party (BNP). In Wales the party's share of the vote increased from 1.2% (in 2007) to 2.4% giving the SLP the second biggest percentage gain of the total votes cast in the election meaning it far outperformed all other left-wing opposition as well as once again outperforming the BNP. The SLP also received more votes than the Green Party in two of the five regions of Wales. http://www.socialist-labour-party.org.uk/electionresults.html