Talk:Political party affiliation in the United Kingdom

Creation
I've created this page with the aim of creating greater transparency about UK political party membership restrictions since I've not been able to find such a thing in existence until now. I hope you find it useful.

Disclaimer, I am a member of the small Pirate Party UK who's membership nearly entirely, but not completely renders me ineligible to join any other UK political party for the reasons cited within Deku-shrub (talk) 18:20, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Green party?
Why is the Green party not included?-- S Philbrick (Talk)  14:58, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It is Deku-shrub (talk) 15:41, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

membership boasting?
There should be some caution expressed about membership figures, lapsed members or union membership etc. means accuracy is not there. Also comparing a national party with a regional makes comparison difficult. http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN05125 also has some useful figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.249.23.158 (talk) 11:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Socialist Party of Great Britain
I've removed the Socialist Party of Great Britain that you added. I assume the membership figure you added is based on page 15 of this - https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/25334 - source that you added? This says "membership fees", which to imply a membership figure off of this would be WP:SYNTH. It would seem this is stating the money the party made from its membership, not how many members it has. I say this because the party is cited on its page (Socialist Party of Great Britain) as having a membership of around 300 in 2022. It would seem hard to believe that its membership went from 300 to 5,384 between August and 31 December of the same year. Plus, the fact that the membership fees figure in the accounts document gives a figure of 5,522 for 2021. So, if this were to mean membership numbers and not a purely financial statement its membership would have to have fluctuated massively from 5,522 in 2021 to 300 in August 2022 (see the BBC article for its cited membership of 300 on its page) back up to 5,384 by the end of 2022. This then leads me to believe these figures of 5,384 for 2022 and 5,522 in 2021 is just the money in pounds made from its membership, not actual membership numbers i.e. its monetary figures, not people figures. Helper201 (talk) 17:54, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

BIAS
why does this page contain no reference to Reform UK, who is fielding candidates i n all seats?