General Election votes

Just as an exercise, I thought it might be worth listing the "top twenty" parties by numbers of votes each received in last May's General Election.

This does include the 'nationalist' parties that stand in only one country of the United Kingdom, and some others put up candidates in only a few constituencies, so that needs to be borne in mind.

Even so, it is still interesting to do it this way, rather than by number of seats:

1. 10,726,814 - Conservatives
2. 8,609,527 - Labour
3. 6,836,824 - Lib Dem
4. 920,334 - UKIP
5. 563,743 - BNP
6. 491,385 - SNP 
7. 285,616 - Green
8. 171,942 - Sinn Fein
9. 168,216 - DUP
10. 165,394 - Plaid Cymru
11. 110,970 - SDLP
12. 102,361 - Ulster Conservatives & Unionists
13. 64,826 - English Democrats
14. 42,762 - Alliance Party
15. 33,251 - Respect-Unity Coalition
16. 26,300 - Traditional Unionist Voice
17. 18,623 - Christian Party
18. 16,150 - Independent Community & Health Concern
19. 12,275 - Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition
20. 3,157 - Scottish Socialist Party

Note that only the "big three" parties were in the millions of votes, and only the Conservatives went into eight figures. Also note that the Greens received fewer than half the votes that the BNP got, and well under a third of UKIP's number. They're still next to nowhere in the public support stakes, even if they did manage to win a seat in Brighton, which is about the only place they could have done.

Finally, it's good to see parties with the word "Socialist" in their names (i.e. almost certainly Communist subversives in reality) are right down the bottom of the list. Apart from a very few hard-liners, no-one in Britain wants that kind of outfit here!