Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
List of currently active political parties with over 50,000,000 members Rank Name Abbreviation Party symbol Country Active since Claimed number of members (year) Approximate percentage of population (year) [b] 1 Bharatiya Janata Party: BJP India: 6 April 1980 (44 years ago) () 198 million (2023) [1] [2] [3] 12.7% (2022) 2 Chinese Communist ...
121 Conservative Party members of Parliament (MPs) out of the 650 constituencies were elected to the House of Commons at the 4 July 2024 general election, [1] the lowest number in its history. [2] Party leader Kemi Badenoch is shown in bold.
Membership of political parties has been in decline in the UK since the 1950s, falling by over 65% from 1983 (4 per cent of the electorate) to 2005 (1.3 per cent). [1] In 2022, 1.5% of the British electorate were members of the Conservative Party, Labour Party, or the Liberal Democrats. [2]
Members Elected in 2024 [1] Current [2] Difference Labour [a] 411 [b] 406 5 Conservative: 121 121 Liberal Democrats: 72 72 Independent: 6 11 [c] 5 SNP: 9 9 Sinn Féin: 7 7 DUP: 5 5 Reform UK: 5 5 Green (E&W) 4 4 Plaid Cymru: 4 4 SDLP: 2 2 Alliance: 1 1 TUV: 1 1 UUP: 1 1 Speaker: 1 1 Vacant: 0 0 Total 650 650 Total voting [d] 639 639 Majority ...
Reform UK leader Farage says his party has made history and is now the "real opposition".
The party, which has been on a push to boost its membership in recent weeks, has seen a number of significant Conservative defections to its ranks, including former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns ...
In 2010 the Conservative Party had about 177,000 members according to activist Tim Montgomerie, [277] and in 2013 membership was estimated by the party itself at 134,000. [278] The Conservative Party had a membership of 124,000 in March 2018. [279] In May 2019 its membership was thought to be around 160,000, with over half of its members being ...
The row came after a digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day going past the 131,680 figure declared by the Conservative Party during its ...