On Saturday 25 October, the Labour Party elected Lucy Powell to be their new deputy leader. Powell was the front runner, so the result came as no surprise. What did come as a shock was — just how few people voted: 161,000 votes cast in the Labour Deputy Leadership Election. It was 461,000 votes cast […]
Labour Deputy Leadership: Powell versus Phillipson
The final vote was as follows:
Bridget Phillipson – 75,356 votes (46% of votes cast).
Lucy Powell – 87,407 votes (54% of votes cast).
Those who were eligible to vote included Labour members and union affiliates, which includes 970,642 people in total. This means only 16.6% of those who could vote did so.
While we don’t know what percentage of those who voted were members or affiliates, we do know membership has crashed under Starmer. As reported by the BBC in August, the party has lost almost 200,000 members since its 2019 peak. The figures released by Labour were that the party has 333,235 members, meaning it’s still the largest party in the UK. The problem is these figures only went as far as the end of 2024, and Labour’s approval ratings have steadily dropped since then:
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Labour deputy leadership vote shows Labour is a dying party
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/10/25/labour-deputy-leadership-vote-shows-labour-is-a-dying-party/cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/4085