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National votes for Labour at general elections since 1992 (millions) England Wales Scotland 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024 A graph showing the percentage of the popular vote received by major parties in general elections (1832–2005), with the rapid rise of the Labour Party after its founding during the late 19th century being clear as it became one of the ...
Note the Labour Party Rule Book states that membership lapses after arrears of six months to give time for members to be reminded to renew, so there will be a significant difference between currently fully paid-up member numbers (part of eligibility to vote in internal elections) and the total membership number.
Clement Attlee, who led the Labour Party's first majority government. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1900, it is one of the two main political parties along with the Conservative Party. In all general elections since 1918, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition.
A graph showing Labour Party individual membership, excluding affiliated members and supporters. As of 31 December 2010, under the new leader Ed Miliband, individual membership of the party was 193,261; a historical low for the Party since the 1930s. [192] Membership remained relatively unchanged in the following years.
Labour Listens; Labour Party Constitution; Labour Party Young Socialists; Labour Representation Committee (1900) Labour Representation Committee (2004) Labour Representation League; 1888 Mid Lanarkshire by-election; Legal Eight Hours and International Labour League; Lib–Lab pact; Liberal-Labour (UK) Limehouse Declaration; The longest suicide ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
In the 1934 Merthyr by-election the Independent Labour Party share dropped from 69.4% in the 1931 general election to 9.8% (a record 59.6% loss) losing the seat to the Labour Party. However, the 1931 election had no Labour Party candidate, and the MP, R. C. Wallhead , had previously been elected as a Labour candidate in prior elections, when ...
According to the UK Parliament website sourced from a report by Olympic Britain, [3] during the 1950s there were 2.8 million members of the Conservative Party and 1 million Labour Party members. In the years after 1945 until the early 1990s, supporters of the Socialist and Cooperative parties and trade unions linked with the Labour Party ...