Size and Electoral Information
The CPB claimed that it had some 830 members at its Congress in 2004, at its congress in May 2006 said this number had risen to 902 and by the end of the year (in its annual statement of accounts) it had 923. At November 2007, membership had risen to 1026 but at its Congress in 2008 it reported that its UK membership was 941.
According to the party's accounts for the year 2005, it had income and expenditure around the £100,000 mark, of which £34,000 is spent on staff salaries.
The most recent figures available are from 2010. The Statement of Accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission following the party congress in 2010 reports a party membership of 931 and annual income of £112,660.
At the 2001 general election, the CPB ran six candidates whose total vote came to 1,003. This went up slightly in the May 2005 election when six CPB candidates polled a total of 1,124 votes (average 0.3 per cent a seat). In the 2004 local elections, however, on one occasion a CPB candidate, Glyn Davies (Shotton, Flintshire), polled just over 21 per cent though his total vote was only 99. In the London Assembly election, 2008, it stood as part of Unity for Peace and Socialism, an electoral alliance with the British domiciled sections of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of Bangladesh and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). UPS won 0.26 percent of the vote in the election. The party did enjoy an electoral success in 2008 when Clive Griffiths, a former Labour councillor who joined the party, was re-elected unopposed to Hirwaun and Penderyn Community Council as a Communist. In the 2009 European Parliament elections it was part of the No to EU – Yes to Democracy platform led by the RMT union.
Read more about this topic: Communist Party Of Britain
Famous quotes containing the words size, electoral and/or information:
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second- guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)