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Party memberships fell in 2023 despite looming election (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Labour lost 37,000 more members during 2023, leaving its total membership at 370,450 at the end of the year.

Although it still has the most members of any UK party, the figure is significantly down from a peak of 532,046 at the end of 2019.

The Liberal Democrats saw their membership fall by around 11,000 to 86,599, though the party said it had seen a rise in new members since its gains in July's general election.

The Conservatives do not publish membership figures, but their income from membership fees fell from £1.97m to £1.5m.

However, the Green Party saw its membership remain stable at around 53,000.

Reform UK said its membership had grown "significantly", although it did not publish figures.
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In a turbulent year for the Scottish National Party, which saw the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon as leader and an ongoing police investigation into the party's finances, its membership fell by around 18,000 to 64,525.

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

labour didn't win the election, tories lost it.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That only holds true if voter turn out was so low that the non voters could have all voted Tory to save them. I haven't looked into the numbers but I doubt that.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/comment/10998014

https://lemmy.world/comment/11383223

Labour

total votes 9,686,329

share 33.7%

share change +1.6

Labour gained 1.6% of the vote share compared to the previous election.

Conservative

total votes 6,828,925

share 23.7%

share change -19.9

tories lost 20% of their vote share.

[-] gedhrel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Believe it. Of the eligible electorate, 20% cast a vote for Labour, who wound up with two thirds of the House.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well yeah, that's how our political system works. I don't believe any party has ever won an election with more then 30% of the vote. Least of all the Conservative.

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