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Labour Party Annual Conference 2026 & "Online #Lab26"
2026 TUC Congress Links, Other Events Links/Labour Almanack & 2026 Labour NEC Election detailed analysis just below this & next 5 sections
Member Polling and 2025 & 2026 Leadership Election Data & Analysis on Labour Dashboard page
Lots of Labour Institutional Data on the Labour Archive Page
For comparative study of the institutional aspects of other parties it also links to GP Aggregator (for Green Conference) & YP Aggregator
Below is a series of Sequential Lists that will maximise the involvement of those watching conference online. The information as aggregated will also be of use to those attending too as every link spread over a number of websites is all in one place.
Other parties have hybrid conferences and it has to be said even the Tories encourage and online conference to a degree and Labour held "Labour Connected" in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, so this is an attempt to make those of you not present feel part of Conference more.
Links will be added to all the sections as they come online.
If using X, try to use the usually official #Lab26 hashtag to help find information easier. Other hashtag options are here.
Attendance: 800 CLP delegates, 400 TU Delegates and another 17,000 attending for a total of around 18,000
Comparison Event Sizes: Conservatives 12,000, Reform 8,000, Liberal Democrats 3,500, Greens 3,000, Your Party 2,500, TUC 3,000
This Guide uniquely also has a full set of links for TUC Congress the fortnight before just below it giving all the TU data as TU vote size is different due to affiliation to Labour based on political fund size
Main Conference Page on Labour Website and Conference Linktree
Labour Conference App on Apple and Google Play
Labour List cover most key conference stories so worth checking each day
My annual X thread on conference process and results data analysis
My annual CLP delegate faction composition estimate.
Watch Labour Conference Live
Individual days will be added at each link below when they come on stream:
Saturday - Labour Women's Conference. This is not normally livestreamed
Sunday - Mainly Organisational reports and Constitutional discussion. Speeches: Deputy Leader's, Party Chair, General Secretary, NPF Chair, Treasurer.
Monday - Chancellor Speech from 12 noon
Tuesday - and link for Leader Speech from 2pm
Wednesday - Concluding policy debates and singing of The Red Flag and Jerusalem
Online for Labour Members Live from Liverpool online 6pm or 5.30pm Zoom Sun-Tues by Labour's Training Team - useful updates
Online Fringe
IPPR usually livestream their fringe. Big up to IPPR who did over 30 fringe events shown online and did it quite simply with a stage & a mix of panels and interviews.
Politico Pub Interviews live from Conference
Socialist Health Association Don't think it was livestreamed but they did upload a recording of an event
Let me know if there are any other livestreamed fringe events?
Reports and Documents
Main Reports and Documents
Annual Conference Reports all here - this includes all the CAC reports which covers the daily agenda.
Conference Guide Includes fringe listings, exhibition listings and Member events. A useful study of what the fringes are talking about this year has been produced by Nathan Oswin. Useful practical summary guides on events/receptions for attendees will also be added here: Guido. Update on the Pullman Bar at Conference.
National Policy Forum Report 2026 gets approved section by section
NEC Annual Report 2026 gets approved. There is scope for questions but few get asked and Conference simply approves the report.
Treasurer's Report - this was published before conference and ends up in the NEC Annual Report
Delegates Report along with the daily CAC reports explain the business of Conference.
Conference Agenda
How Conference voting works with the 50/50 TU/CLP system - a TULO Explainer.
Rule Changes
Some small mainly administrative ones by the NEC detailed here covering NEC/NCC vacancies. Likely to be passed by 90% by conference.
One from Disability Labour on hybrid meetings supported by NEC so likely to be passed by 95%+ by conference
SHA Rule Change on Donations to MPs ruled out of order by CAC.
Conference Motion Potential Debates
Important to note these are subject to the Priorities ballot (at least 6 from CLPs, 6 from TUs) at conference so not all may get on the agenda
CLP Motions - At least 6 can be prioritised but this year CAC agreed 7
All Motion Subject areas in CAC1 Addendum
NOTE 1: See faction links below for their current up to date voting recommendations in the Priorities Ballot. This is likely useful as from below some motions backed at an earlier stage by a Party faction may not be on the ballot so they may have shifted to another subject area.
36 Subject Areas in the ballot in CAC1. Top ones listed here and successful ones listed in bold.
Successful
Fairness for older workers - backed by Labour to Win/Labour First
Reindustrialisation - backed by Labour to Win/Labour First - is this the same as likely TU Motion?
Buses - backed by Labour to Win/Labour First
Tackling knife crime - backed by Labour to Win/Labour First
Housing and homelessness - backed by Labour to Win/Labour First
Violence Against Women and Girls - backed by Labour to Win/Labour First as an option with Electoral Reform
Unsuccessful
Electoral Reform - Labour for a New Democracy - now backed by Momentum and Mainstream & an option backed by Labour to Win/Labour First.
Middle East - these may be different to the Palestine Motion below - backed by Momentum/CLPD
Cuba - now backed by Momentum/CLPD
Tech Sovereignty - now backed by Momentum
Ruled out Issues
Water Public Ownership - Backed by Mainstream and SERA - Looks to have been ruled out by the CAC.
Brexit/EU red lines - Presumably backed by LMEC - Ruled out by CAC. Interesting to see if Mainstream take a view as Europe tends to be very popular with their vote base?
Original CLPD Motions and Momentum Motions (some overlap and some not covered by each group but will likely be backed by both in the ballot) as originally circulated
UK Bases used for US Iran Bombing - CLPD - May have been ruled out by CAC?
Palestine - CLPD/Momentum also backed by PSC - some may have been ruled out by the CAC
Maximum Working Temperature - CLPD - May have been ruled out by CAC?
Housing - CLPD/Momentum - also backed by Labour Campaign for Council Housing - may have been ruled out by the CAC
NHS - CLPD/Momentum - also backed by SHA - May have been ruled out by CAC
Workplace Equality - Momentum - also backed by Labour for Trans Rights - may have been ruled out by CAC?
TU Motions - At least 6 can be prioritised but this year CAC agreed 7
The unions will back the subjects below. Thus CLPs do not need to vote for these subjects as they will be debated
Successful
Reindustrialising communities
Insourcing and public ownership
Opportunities for young workers
Rebuilding our economy for working people
Public services
Artificial Intelligence in the interests of working people
Composites
Emergency Motions
16 submitted - 3 accepted from Unite, Unison and GMB
One from Unison condemns the Glasgow Council SNP fire and rehire policies
NPF Reference Backs
Gaza - CLPD/Momentum
11 "accepted" by the CAC which sounds like it has interpreted rule to "make a decision" and simply referred the issues to the NPF without debate. 8 were rejected.
CAC Reports (Links to be added when published)
Sunday - CAC1 and Addendum for Motions in Priority Ballot Groupings
Monday - CAC2 and Addendum for Composites and Emergency Motions and Ballot Candidate Booklet
Faction recommendations (this will be expanded in any more links)
CLPD and Momentum and their Daily Yellow Pages
Announcements
To add anything extra
Results and Ballots Reporting
Rule Changes - NEC proposed pages & CLP proposed pages. Results here. Current Labour Party Rule Book to see where the above rule changes impact
NCC result and analysis - also long-terms here.
NPF result and analysis
Nathan Oswin has produced an analysis of both NCC and NPF elections here.
Other Materials
Conference Timetable and Key Deadlines and Rules
Past Labour Conference Documentation 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
In the 4 sections that follow we cover the 4 main elements that make up much of the institutional nature of Conference
The factions and groups particularly affecting the CLP half of conference
The affiliated trade unions and socialist societies - A comprehensive Vote Share Breakdown
The CLP's themselves - Regional Size Breakdown
The organisations (eg think tanks) often operating much of the fringe along also with the factions/groups/TUs and socialist societies above
I will move this and those sections further up this page for the duration of Conference for ease of access
Below those 4 elements there is also a little bit of advice on how to do a proper Point of Order at Conference as many people have clearly not been trained to do that
Key Media and Online Coverage
Burnham has ‘ghosted’ the Labour left, says Clive Lewis - Politics.co.uk
The House | Hazards Ahead: How Labour Unity Under Andy Burnham May Be Tested In The Months Ahead
Fun Bits
Labour Factions/Groups at Labour Conference - Links
Labour Factions/Groups at Labour Conference - Links
Support Levels
My estimates of faction/group support among CLP delegations at conference for past years are posted here:
2026 - This Years Estimate
CAC Most recent result 2025 - Next Election 2027
NPF Most recent result 2026 - Next Election 2028
LabourList Labour MP Tribes graphic
This can be viewed in 2025 form here and updated in 2026 here.
List of Factions/Groups
This is a useful list of all the internal Labour Political factions and political groups and what they are advocating for at conference. Where possible the link will go to any specific conference page.
Quite a large number will be holding fringe meetings too.
Labour Outlook - linked to Arise - have also produced a conference bulletin
Policy Subject Area Groups - these are not affiliated socialist societies
Labour Affiliates at Labour Conference
Labour Affiliates at Labour Conference
Sister Political Party - 1
In an electoral pact and not an affiliate, though it does have Labour Party representation rights at a local, regional and Scottish & Welsh level
Cooperative Party and also Sign up for Coop party Conference Emails
Affiliated Labour Trade Unions - 11
Larger ones will be holding receptions or sponsoring fringes.
This list is in order of a reasonably accurate % of the TU vote at Labour Conference. Halve that number to get their conference card vote size under the 50/50 CLP/TU vote vote share. It is also shown on X here.
Unite - 290,000 - 23% - Based on a £3 per member affiliation payment of £870,000 after a 40% cut from £1,450,000 (483,333 members)
USDAW 288,416 - 23%
GMB 288,325 - 23%
Unison 184,015 - 15% (note this is an estimate based on Political Fund income and it could be as high as 250,000)
CWU 112,205 - 9%
FBU 24,460 - 2%
Community 18,079 - 1%
ASLEF - 16,790 - 1%
Musician's Union 15,005 - 1%
TSSA 9,905 - 1%
NUM - 82 - 0%
Total -
Note: Card Vote 2 at 2025 Conference had highest Affiliate vote at 1520878 with a 946146 to 574732 result. However this was before the Unite 40% reduction in their affiliation
NPF Delegation Sizes and Percentages
List of trade union rep names here
A useful comparison with above but some differences
The 6 smaller unions are historically overrepresented and is Unite based on 2025 Affiliation and USDAW underrepresented.
Unite - 14 - 25%
USDAW 8 - 15%
GMB 11 - 20%
Unison 7 - 13%
CWU 4 - 7%
FBU 2 - 2% - 3.6%
Community 2 - 3.6%
ASLEF - 2 - 3.6%
Musician's Union 2 - 3.6%
TSSA 2 - 3.6%
NUM - 1 - 2%
Polling of Union Members
Important to note this poll has been at the centre of Reform donations contoversy following a Channel 4/Viewpoint investigation shown here. However as JL Partners were meant to follow BPC/MRS guidelines on metholodogy it is still worth looking at.
31/05/26: JL Partners Poll of public sector union members in The Times. More here.
Westminster voting intention, change shown on 2024
REF 28 (+12)
LAB 28 (-20)
CON 13 (-3)
GRN 11 (+6)
LDEM 8 (-2)
14th-19th May 2026, representative sample of 1,002 public sector union members.
A useful critique of its polling segments flagging weaknesses in its methodology is here from Simon Fletcher.
None of this is new though when looking at some individual unions. Polling of Unite members back to 2009 showed Tories only 3% behind Lab and I have collated some data from past threads. Big difference now to then is TU GSs are not in denial as they often were in the 2010s. I have linked some previous data here and here.
Affiliated Socialist Societies - 21
Many of these groups will be holding fringe meetings or receptions at conference.
Official Labour Page and Linktree Page and Wikipedia Page
Three largest in terms of % (Around 63%) of what I think is now a 24,000 Socialist Society vote (around 1% of the affiliate vote along with TU's)
Fabian Society and also Fabian Women - 6,293 - 26%
Labour in Local and Regional Government (LLRG) - 5,873 - 24% NEW - Affiliated in 2026 (Assumption is affiliates on Cllr Numbers)
Jewish Labour Movement, (JLM) (formerly Poale Zion) - 3,000 - 13%
Followed by the rest:
Black, Asian Minority Ethnic Labour (BAME Labour) (formerly Labour Party Black Sections and Black Socialist Society)
East & South East Asians for Labour (ESRA) (formerly Chinese for Labour)
Christians on the Left (formerly The Christian Socialist Movement)
Disability Labour (formerly Labour Party Disabled Members Group)
Labour Business (formerly Labour Finance and Industry Group)
Labour Housing Group (LHG)
Labour Party Irish Society (LPIS)
Socialist Environment and Resources Association (SERA)- Labour's Environmental Campaign
CLPs at Labour Conference - Key Information
CLPs at Labour Conference - Key Information
Between the role of factions organising and the operation of the 11 Labour Unions the general role of CLPs as 50% of the conference vote tends to be forgotten. On the last page of each CAC report there is a diagram of where all the delegations sit and CLPs are sat in regions. Whilst CLPs vote individually or more often on factional recommendation above, the actual Nations/Regions voting strength of the CLPs is shown below to show how they compare with trade unions. CLP delegates often have a high delegation turnover due to a mix of local "Buggins' Turn" or delegation gender requirements. Gone are the days where Ray Apps of Militant (predecessor of 2000 member CWI-SPEW and 1,000 member RCI-RCP) would be a delegate from Brighton Labour for perhaps 20 years running and Militant themselves would be able to secure 70-90 delegates with a card vote that was useful for voting on the NEC CLP Reps (elected by Conference CLP delegates then) for a Militant candidate over a number of years.
To get conference voting strength in the 50/50 CLP/TU vote share just halve the numbers below. When you see the factional strength in the CLPs above (67% LTW/LF) and look at the unions strength below (59%-41% politically or 98%+ of TU vote when united), that means in a 50/50 CLP/TU vote share any other political space between those two scenarios is currently quite small at conference.
Nations/Regional Distribution of the Labour Membership in CLPs
Based on past research from 2010.
London - 21%
North West -12%
South East - 10%
Yorkshire/Humber - 9%
West Midlands - 8%
Eastern - 8%
Scotland - 7%
East Midlands - 7%
Wales - 6%
South West - 6%
North - East - 6%
A more recent estimate based on incomplete data had it as:
London - 22% (+1)
North West -12%
South East - 12% (+2)
Yorkshire/Humber - 9%
West Midlands - 7% (-1)
Eastern - 8%
Scotland - 5% (-2)
East Midlands - 7%
Wales - 5% (-1)
South West - 8% (+2)
North - East - 5% (-1)
Labour Conference Social Media Links
Labour Conference Social Media Links
Media Coverage and Social Media Links for The Fringe
Media Coverage and Social Media Links for The Fringe
A useful list of media and fringe organiser social media here to be able to keep up with news and fringe events:
Key News Sources
Groups that are organising or a partner in Fringe Meetings
Left Fringe Organisation
Arise - A Festival of Left Ideas (which itself has existed from around 2015) seems to have replaced The World Transformed (there from 2016-2023) as the main left fringe at Labour Conference. Their website is here and Linktree is here.
How to do a Point of Order at Labour Conference
I was asked about this and looking at the Standing Orders of Labour Conference in the Appendix to the Labour Rule Book here the following look like legitimate Points of Order and thus the "Standing Order you have to quote to make it legitimate" under Conference Standing Orders (Appendix 8, Clause I,3,C,iii) are as follows:
Contemporary Motions: Appendix 8, Clause I,2,A,i
Emergency Motions: Appendix 8, Clause I,2,B,ii,a&b
NPF Report and Other Reference Backs: Appendix 8, Clause I,2,D,i
Thus a delegate would say for example querying Contemporary Motions being ruled out: "I wish to raise a Point of Order under Standing Order: Appendix 8, Clause I,2,A,i"
2026 TUC Congress - Online Links
2026 TUC Congress - Online Links
Other Events Links/Labour Almanack & 2026 Labour NEC Election detailed analysis just below this
This is an aggregation of links for TUC Congress designed to help you experience an online conference with livetreams, social media for news and all the documents to understand what is going on. It also includes data driven political analysis to put the event into context. It is aimed at Labour Party members both to induct them more into trade unions as a key institution within the Party that they founded in 1900, but also makes the point that unions are deeply rooted in Labour and it is hard to see them looking to competitor parties to the left as they would simply be joiners not founders of an institution and would not be offered the sort of deep relationship they have with Labour
Unlike the Greens or Your Party, the institutional importance of Trade Unions to Labour is pretty fundamental in view of their 62%, 60%, 50%, 33%, 25%, 33% representation on CAC, NCC, Conference, NEC, NPF and Nation/Region Executives. Thus the TUC Congress (where Labour affiliates are 69% of the TUC membership) is a significant event a fortnight before Labour conference for understanding any TU trends.
Below is core information on TUC Congress
13-16 Sept - TUC Congress - Key Links
Main site https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-congress-2026
Attendance: 600 delegates and another 2,400 attending for a total of 3,000
Livestream on Website and also on Youtube and recorded for Youtube site after
A useful summary and collation of news reports on the Left Foot Forward Substack and also their website here.
Main X Hashtag is #TUC2026 but also #TUC26 has used #Congress26 My X thread on the TU and Labour link is here.
Programme of Business The Daily agenda which may be revised by the TUC General Purposes Committee (their CAC)
TUC General Council Report Useful information on key TUC Campaigning and Political Priorities
Provisional Agenda - Motions, Amendments and Nominations
Final Agenda - Composites and Nominations
TUC General Council Cleaner Politics Statement - approved by Congress
Online Motions Tracker Very as useful as the Congress usually passes many motions. Also up to date on composites agreed during Congress
Exhibitor List - also a pdf here.
Fringe - not always listed but may be found from TU and Org social media - many of which is similar to the lists for Labor Party Conference shown below
Contested Ballots on General Council Nominations
Details on pages of 79-83 of Final Agenda
Section C Unions with fewer than 30,000 members – seven to be elected - 8 candidates - all bar AFA nominee elected
Section D Women from unions with fewer than 200,000 members – four to be elected - 5 candidates - all bar AFA nominee elected
Conference Debates - a few useful points
The following data may be of use when looking at any contested card votes (generally rare) at TUC Congress. A body with 47 institutions whose delegations are their Leadership and whose top level skill is "negotiation" leads to a pretty disciplined conference compared to Labour where there are 100s of CLP delegates (often with a high turnover due to a mix of local "Buggins' Turn" or delegation gender requirements) who tend to look out for Party factional recommendations. Most votes are carried overwhelmingly on a show of hands but some areas sometime lead to card votes. The following data on a range of areas sets out any TU vote data and covers issues where there might be some disagreement even if not to Card vote level. Generally any debate divisions are between well known political stances of TUs (see the size of the big TU card votes below and the well known political positions of the 11 Labour affiliated unions which cover a broad range of Labour left and right positions - see Lab Conference data later) but sometimes campaigns, left organisations or small Leninist orgs will focus on one or two motions as their annual "intervention" at the TUC so I have shown that where it is mentioned online as helps to explain the wider and sometimes underlying political context.
This year there was some debate on the EHRC Guidance over UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act and subsequent Certification Officer Decisions with Motion 17 taken which was supported by the TUC General Council and was carried overwhelmingly by Congress without any card vote.
Motion 34 from PCS on public sector pay and quite heavily backed by the 2000 member CWI-SPEW, along with NSSN it is influential in, is pushing for some political action in what might be considered as the Burnham Honeymoon. The motion seems to have been a contested issue within PCS itself? It makes the following demand: urgently call a national Saturday demonstration this autumn for investment in public services, against austerity and for pro-worker policies. The motion was supported by the General Council and carried on a show of hands. The General Council response made it clear any demonstration would be subject to resources but no surprise the CWI-SPEW influenced NSSN has already launched a "Name the Date" campaign. Maybe it is possible to the save resources the General Council might try to link such a demand to an existing planned event such as Cable Street 90th anniversary events?
The Morning Star (a Coop but historically politically aligned with the 1,270 member CPB) focuses on economic debates such as Unite's Motion 24 & Unison's Composite 9 on insourcing. These were both backed by the Ganeral Council and carried on a show of hands. It was also critical from a Lexit perspective (shared with RMT) over Motion 74 on a closer relationship with Europe & RMT opposed the motion in the debate, but the motion was supported by the General Council and carried by at least 5-1 on a show of hands looking at the livestream. This has got some media coverage for the position agreed.
Emergency Motion EM2 was passed condemning instituionalised racist targeting of Jason Arday. This was supported by the General Council and carried overwhelmingly on a show of hands.
On Defense/Nuclear Power/Oil and Gas fields/Climate-Energy transition debates Unite and GMB have 1,670,676 (32%) of vote. They opposed Motion 75 on defense from UCU. In 2025 a Wages not Weapons motion was carried by 2,871,000 (56%) to 2,291,000 (44%) against with, of the known unions Prospect backing Unite/GMB (Total of those 3 TUs: 1,883,956) in opposition to the motion and UCU, RMT, PCS, FBU, CWU, TSSA & NEU (Total of those 7 TUs 1,106,964) supporting it. In this year's debate Community also opposed the motion so 1,926,159 (37%) were publicly against. Unison were in favour so 2,349,115 (45%) were publicly in favour. The defense motion was the focus of the SWP (2,500 or claimed 6,100) this year and Alex Gordon of the RMT (also recently elected 1,270 member CPB General Secretary this year) was also a strong speaker in favour. The motion was supported by the General Council and carried in a relatively close show of hands, but no card vote was requested, so trades unions had clearly done the numbers based on 45% declared public support. Important to note the balance of forces on this issue is very different when you look at just Labour affiliated trades unions and Labour Party Conference debates, where Unite's call for more defense spending to achieve 3% GDP will be more welcomed and the conference votes reflect the affiliated political membership size of unions. Important to note Unite and GMB's alignment of defense spending issues is a majority of the TU vote at Labour conferenc whilst Unison, which is 34% of Labour TU affiliated vote at TUC is only 15% at Labour Conference due to its NALGO/NUPE/COHSE two political fund history. My initial estimate is a similar motion to Motion 75 would lose by 70% to 30% at Labour Conference with a similar 70% percentage of affiliated unions there against when votes are added up.
Motion 77 on Palestine/Israel was reported after as strengthening the TUC's position on BDS. This was supported by the General Council and carried overwhelmingly on a show of hands.
On Ukraine the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign here and here keeps a running total on what is now a large majority of strong support for Ukraine (87% to 2% with 11% abstentions in a previous TUC vote) over those unions more aligned with "Stop The War" political positions on the conflict. The 180 member AWL that is very active in the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign focuses a lot on that issue at TUC Congress. This year a non-controversial Motion 78 was carried with General Council support with no opposition on a show of hands.
Motion 79 from CWU was one of only two covering the institutional role of the TUC and ithe CWU's General secretary Dave Ward set out its purpose.. This was was a more measured one than one last year that CWU Gen Sec Dave Ward conceded had followed after listening to other union views. This included a Governance Review. The General Council supported and the motion was carried on a show of hands. Motion 80 from the Trades Councils called for an expansion of their role, but this was opposed by the General Council with a call for remission due to the Governance Review and also the status of Trades Councils with TUs, which was accepted by the Trades Councils after a statement with some strong criticism by them. For some commentary on these institutional aspects see below.
TUC Member Union Membership 2026
Note 1: Union membership number may be different to the numbers Labour's 11 affiliated unions affiliate to Labour on - see below - due to political fund sign-up numbers
Note 2: The largest 3 unions Unison, Unite, NEU marked in bold below have 2,917,941 (56%) of the vote at TUC Congress
Note 3: Labour's 11 Affiliates marked in red below have 3,602,542 (69%) of the vote at TUC Congress
Note 4: I have added social media links for most unions. Most link to their websites, a lit of which can also be found at the TUC Union Listing
ACCORD 20,972
ADVANCE 5,523
Aegis 4,276
Artists’ Union England 2,344
ASLEF 22,776
Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) 310 (US based union UK section)
British Dietetic Association 12,386
Communication Workers Union 163,977
Community 42,203
Equity 49,294
FDA 25,777
Fire Brigades Union 33,589
GMB 496,614
Musicians’ Union 36,901
National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers 228,008
National Education Union 501,728
Nationwide Group Staff Union 12,397
Nautilus International 12,457
Prison Officers Association 36,912
Prospect 141,280
Royal College of Midwives 36,679
Royal College of Podiatry 10,277
Society of Radiographers 31,803
UNISON 1,242,151
Unite 1,174,062
United Road Transport Union 20,972
University & College Union 119,785
TOTALS: 5,255,499
Trade Union Institutional Information
A useful set of links to understand more about UK trade unions in their institutional context:
TUC Union Listing and a link for all sites that replace the old TUC Directory. An example of the old Directory is here.
TUC Activity and TUC General Council, Executive Committee and TUC Structure
Note: Labour's 11 affiliated unions as well as having 69% of TUC membership have 28 out of 54 (52%) members of the General Council, 13 out of 25 (52%) members of its Executive Committee and 4 out of 5 (80%) members of the TUC General Purposes Committee (ie its CAC organising the TUC Congress agenda)
Trade Union Certification Officer website and TU Certification Officer data on individual Trade unions - impressive amounts of information illustrating trade union transparency
Trade Union Numbers 1995-2025 Also here. Earlier numbers here, here + other historical data
Shop Steward/Rep Numbers: 1970 200,000, 1984 330,000, 2004 100,000 More here
TUC Megaphone - campaign platform
TUC Digital Lab - developing digital trade unionism
TUC Education - aimed at reps/TU Officers
Union Learn - for TU Members in General
TUC Interactive Learning Guides - highly recommended
Labour Research Department (LRD) - Independent body conducting research and producing Guides/Handbooks as well as maintaining a pay bargaining database.
Nation/Region/Local Level
This covers TUC bodies sub-UK level. Individual unions often have their own local/workplace branches that are not covered here
Trades Council Directory (England and Wales) 140 Trades Councils in England and 8 in Wales. 20 County Associations in England and 1 in Wales
ScottishTrades Councils Directory - 19 Trades Councils in Scotland
Specialist Trade Union Groupings
Trade Union Coordinating Group - An organisation coordinating the campaigning of 11 national unions: BFAWU, Equity, FBU, NAPO, NEU, NUJ, PCS, POA, RMT, UCU and URTU
General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) - a Federation of 28 specialist unions with 214,000 members (often some of the smaller ones) providing education and supporting campaigns
Confederation of Shipbuilding and Enegineeering Unions (CSEU) - a federation of 4 unions
Labour Unions - The 11 Labour Party affiliates comprising 69% of the TUC membership
Key International TU/Work Orgs
Important to note there are also European and International TU Federations of various employment specific areas
Other Organisations that may be active at TUC Congress
Rather than repeat the Labour Conference long list of organisations below this is a short extra list of orgs that appear in the TUC hashtag feeds: Bookmarks, Morning Star, Unions 21, Institute of Employment Rights, Campaign for Trade Union Freedom (not so explicitly politically aligned now but a merger of various orgs that included the old pre-1991 CPGB's LCDTU campaign) Tolpuddle Martyrs Trust, CND. STW, Cuba Solidarity, Justice for Colombia, Hope Not Hate, Stand Up to Racism (SUTR), Unemployed Workers Centres, Strike Map, NSSN. I will add more as I see them
Labour Left aligned Arise - a festival of left ideas runs a small range of fringe events, but perhaps not as many as it now does at Labour conference.
The TUC - some institutional commentary
This website is interested in institutional issues so here is my take based on the data aggregated here:
Reading everything it has to be said the TUC is impressively well-run. It work on support for TUs, policy and education is very good indeed. The CWU Motion 79 seconded by Equity perhaps demanded more on the campaigning side, more industrial coordination, strengthening visibility in the workplace and a stronger response to Reform.
Bearing in mind how individual or groups of unions fund campaigns it is hard to see how the TUC covering 47 unions could improve on that aspect unless more resources were pooled? On Reform it is more likely down to trade unions how they improve the occupational class composition of their representation and innovation over equality strands here likely means a general need for more outreach (eg innovative Trade Union community cohesion work) into disaffected communities where organisations such as Ella Baker School of Organising could help?
Ideologically and politically in how its handles it's own diversity and negotiates internal outcomes across a range of quite controversial issues from defense, energy, welfare, climate change to international issues, it is arguable that the TUC is the entire Movement's premier "soft left" institution. I cover the long history of soft left typology on the Labour Dashboard page.
For an institution built on 47 other institutions the TUC's current governance puts a lot of emphasis on stability and clarity of outcome with its internal "democracy" of automatic "election" for unions of a certain size meaning 28 out of 47 unions get on to the General Council and 17 on to the Executive Committee and that encourages a lot of consensus but also diversity. That is a hallmark of "soft left pluralism" which the TUC strongly displays through its "institution made up of institutions" existence. As the data on this page shows its 11 Labour Affiliates with 69% of the Congress vote only have 52% of the vote on its General Council and Executive Committee and in general its larger unions seem to allow more space to smaller unions. It is fair to point out from the General Council nomination/election data that CWU at 163,977 is underrepresented due to the "Section B" General Council Constituency of Unions with between 30,000 to 200,000 members. Maybe a creation of a 100,000 to 150,000 unions constituency with 1 rep per TU and 150,000 to 200,000 constituency with 2 reps per TU with tweaks to the size of the other constituencies is one option here, though likely to increase size of the current 54 member General Council? However if the Executive at 25 members stays the same size that might not necessarily be a bad thing as it could differentiate the two bodies in size more to match their different roles better?
The Trades Council Motion 80 issue is more complex as they are localised replicas of the TUC focusing on connecting up local trade union branches so adding them back into the TUC structures is perhaps duplication on both democracy and policy for the Trade Unions they are members of and the TUC? Having on top of that a third layer to the other two focused on policy may cause confusion and contradiction rather than clarity? 47 affiliates will each have their own conference and between them a few thousand branches for lots of debate and the TUC then debates the policy that comes up from all those thousands of debates? That is a pretty clear process starting at union branch going to a union's national conference and ending up debates at the TUC congress debated between 47 unions. Will another layer add to that or confuse? There is also nothing to stop a local Trades Council keen on a certain policy to promote it to its affiliated local branches so they go through their own union process which can, if agreed, lead to later debate at the TUC? The problem at the root of this issue may be the TUC General Council has not given Trades Councils a specific practical organisational task to work to so they end up proposing things to generate more of a purpose? Another approach instead might be to take the broader point of a request for a role being made and build better feedback loops which the following points explore:
The General Council recognises the potential "added value" of Trades Councils to what already exists and creates an Trades Council Local Added Value Feedback Areas Document to task Trades Councils with an actual useful role that relates to the response to Reform covered in Motion 79? This could be public feedback related, covering issues like a wide range of views of the public that Trades Councils are picking up in their area, coordinating local TU branch support for local community cohesion initiatives that help undermine the drivers of support for Reform/Restore, local campaign and organisation practical issues, new campaigning tools being used locally, learning for the future and how local cross-union and work with other organisations campaigning could be improved etc?. Such feedback would be useful for TUC HQ, but can also act as a collation of Best Practice to share across Trades Councils too for improved local activity/campaigning 7 strengthening local community cohesion? As explained above there is lots of policy debate already but what may be a deficiency is bodies adding value as local organising and campaigns best practice hubs which are far more rare than 1000s of trade union branches discussing policy? In other words, such an idea is an opportunity for Trades Council to be 148 organising hubs if they seriously want to develop the idea?
With the key parameters of Trades Council Local Added Value Feedback Areas established, a regular online survey could feed back to the TUC to generate a useful regular report for the General Council (with simple AI collation into a data report which further human commentary could then be added to) and Trades Councils would then know what they were doing was regularly reported to the General Council. In return the General Council could invite a Trades Council Joint Committee Rep to feedback to them with the written report and a short agenda item to flag key points and answer any questions from General Council members? That way they are speaking directly to people at the top of the TUC.
In return for this improved access and direct feedback loop to people at the top a further annual online survey could be completed by each of the 148 England and Wales Trades Council's to get a clear overview of local TU branch involvement, human and financial resources including some basic equality strand data/demographics data and campaigning and current capacity assessment. Without it being judgmental of weaker orgs & recognising the current demographics of Trades Council activists, the General Council would then be far better informed on the local work of Trades Councils. It would get more feedback about public views to supplement any affiliate feedback and its own polling and also be clearer on both local TU level capabilities and limitations which is a pre-requisite to better TU campaigning at all levels.
Events Links
Events Links
2026 Annual Conference Core Details below and full 2026 NEC Election Analysis below that
This will provide a link to all the key party and affiliate events to help you find things quickly and also plan our own events around them.
Labour Internal Elections as a regular event in the party calendar are shown further down the page.
Labour Party Events
Labour Party National Phonebanking Taskforce Events but members can also Phone Voters any day.
Other Events
Many of Labour's TU affiliates and Socialist Societies and also its organised groups and factions also hold events and you can access links to them in the Conference Section at the bottom of main Labour Dashboard page.
Labour Almanack
Labour Almanack
This is an updated almanack covering the year ahead covering some key party deadlines through the year and also annual events and commemorations. My own much broader Annual Almanack I send out to people each New Year is here.
Disclaimer. Any internal Labour deadlines given here should never be seen as a definitive source and you should always check the original Party HQ sources for them.
2026
Jan
16 Jan? - Conference Delegate Registration Opens
25 Jan - Burns’ Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper often events by CLPs
27 Jan - International Holocaust Memorial Day: https://hmd.org.uk/
29 Jan - Closing Date for Labour Students and Young Labour Nominations
Feb
9-15 Feb - #HeartUnions Week: https://www.tuc.org.uk/heartunions
Mar
8 Mar - International Women’s Day: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/ Women of the World (WOW) Foundation events: https://thewowfoundation.com/
Apr
22 Apr - Stephen Lawrence Day: https://stephenlawrenceday.org/
28 Apr - International Workers Memorial Day: https://www.tuc.org.uk/IWMD
28 Apr - Ed Balls Day: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63518/what-ed-balls-day and https://twitter.com/edballs/status/63623585020915713
May
1 May - May Day (or Beltane) Ancient Festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day International Workers Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
7 May - Elections. Electoral Commission list of elections https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections Scottish Parliament Election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Scottish_Parliament_election Welsh Senedd Election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Senedd_election Local Elections in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_Kingdom_local_elections
4-12 May - 100th anniversary of the UK General Strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_United_Kingdom_general_strike General Strike 100 Map Project here: https://generalstrike100.com/#map=5/54.8/-3.4
9 May - With Banners Held High Trade Union Festival, Wakefield: https://www.facebook.com/withbannersheldhigh/
June
7 June - Clarion Sunday - Last Clarion Cycling House: https://www.londonclarion.org.uk/event-details/clarion-sunday-2026-a-celebration-at-the-last-clarion-house
11 June - 2026 National Policy Forum Consultation closes: https://nationalpolicyforum.labour.org.uk/
22 June - Windrush Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_Day
26 June - Noon - Annual Conference Delegate deadline, NEC, NPF & NCC Nominations
27 June? - Co-op Party AGM
Likely to be late June to early July - Co-operatives Fortnight:? (assumed date) https://www.uk.coop/get-involved/campaigns/co-op-fortnight-landing
July
4 July - International Day of Co-operatives: https://www.un.org/en/observances/cooperatives-day
4 July - 2nd anniversary of the election of the current Labour Government under Keir Starmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
4 July - Pride in London LGBTQIA Festival https://prideinlondon.org/
4 July - Cradley Heath Chainmakers Festival (Women’s low pay strike commemoration): https://www.womenchainmakers.org.uk/
5 July - NHS Founding Day: https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/nhs-history/
11 July - Durham Miners Gala: https://www.durhamminers.org/gala
17-29 July - Tolpuddle Festival: https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival
18 July - Nelson Mandela Day: https://www.unesco.org/en/days/nelson-mandela
Aug
Sept
7 Sept - Burston Strike School Rally (longest ever strike commemoration): https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/events/burston-strike-school-rally
17 Sept - 5pm? Annual Conference Deadline for receipt of Contemporary Motions
11 Sept? - Annual Conference Contemporary Motion Appeals
13-16 Sept - TUC Congress: https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-congress-2026
25 Sept - Noon Annual Conference Deadline for Emergency Motions
27 Sept-30 Oct - Labour Party Conference, Liverpool
21 Sept-4 Oct? Fairtrade Fortnight: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved/current-campaigns/fairtrade-fortnight/
Oct
4 Oct - Battle of Cable Street 90th Anniversary https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/events/the-battle-of-cable-street-90th-anniversary & https://togetheroncablestreet.com/
24 Oct - United Nations Day: https://www.un.org/en/observances/un-day
Nov
14-15 Nov Co-op Party Annual Conference - London: https://party.coop/event/annual-conference-2025
Dec
1 Dec - World Aids Day: https://worldaidsday.org/
Labour Internal Elections this year - Including NEC Elections
Labour Internal Elections this year - Including NEC Elections
A listing of all the elections and full analysis of the results
Autumn 2026 Elections
NEC Results Update
I ran an X/Twitter feed on the elections from here to at present here.
Below is some initial analysis of the NEC results at the top here and below that all the pre-result data. I will integrate all the different elements of this page together better soon. Nathan Oswin has also written a detailed analysis here and I will flag some of his very important points when I update my analysis below.
Labour NEC CLP Seats results & Vote Percentages:
Labour to Win - 4 (=) 32% (+5%)
Momentum/CLPD 2 (-1) 24% (-2%)
Mainstream 2 (=) On Open Lab & LW4NEC seats last time (+25% new or -5% compared to OL/LW4NEC)
Restoration 1 (+1) 9% (+9%)
Independent 0 (=) 10% (-7%)
Full NEC Composition Estimate here. Bit less 28-11 & maybe more:
LTW/LF PLP/CLP/Cllr/Scot/Wal/Soc Reps 12
Right lean TU/Equality/Officrs 10,
Burnhamite Leadrship 5,
Left lean TU Reps 6,
Restoration 1,
Left lean Equality Rep 1,
Mainstream 2,
Momentum/CLPD 2
All NEC Results here
NEC CLP STV Vote data here
Labour List report here
NEC results back to 2020 below and also back to 2012 (with turnouts back to 2004) here.
NEC Results Analysis
Drawn from X/Twitter feed and being reordered and re-edited with more transfer data added
Turnout
Turnout looks 2 b in 13%-16% range so up on last year & a bit better than most big TU Gen Sec elections t/o so not bad for a "second order election" but more like 2004-10 era & lower than highly contested 2010-20 era
Vote Share
Vote share % along with 2024 @labtowin/@labour_first 32% (+5%), @mainstreamlbr 25% (+25% as new or -5% on OL/LW4NEC slates) @PeoplesMomentum/@CLPD_Labour 24% (-2%), @leftrestoration 9% (+9%), Ind 10% (-7%) Commentary follows
Outcome for Candidates
BTW congrats to @AndyAchilleos, @catarnold_, @JessicaLBarnard @gembolton, @angela4LME @AbdiDuale_, @_petermason, Kerry Postlewhite, @CampaignJane who are the new 9 CLP Reps & thank you to @Yasmine_Dar for all her service who did not make it back this time
At the same time @JOwusuNepaul & @Stsantek have in their 1st runs 4 the NEC clearly established themselves as strong contenders to get on in future. And whilst the slates dominated, Indys such as @neerajpatil, @JohnWis31479646 & @NooriZahida polled solidly
Outcome for the Slates
@labtowin/@labour_first will be v pleased they topped poll & also held 4 seats. At 2,017 their vote spread was lower than oth 2 main slates so vote management better. At 32% vote share tho their approach may need 2 reflect on a more diverse party culture?
@mainstreamlbr will b pleased formally established on NEC & came 2nd in vote share at 25%. Their vote spread at 3,619 was worst of 3 main slates & may have cost them a 3rd seat? Whilst @mainstreamlbr 25% was good it was 5% lower than OL/LW4NEC sep slates in 2024 & they likely lost some "Ann Black votes" 2 LTW. They may need 2 review whether statements with Mom/CLPD impactd & also memb expectations over any "critical friend".
@PeoplesMomentum/@CLPD_Labour slowd vote decline to -2% bearing in mind they only got 15% noms (+ 40%+ memb recomp) so may see solace, but loss of Yasmine Dar along with Disability seat leaning Mainstream & @WLGrassroots not picking up Welsh seat is significant
@leftrestoration will be v pleased with result as first outing with 9% vote share & 1 NEC memb bearing in mind they got 2% noms and 2% in @Survation poll. With @AndyAchilleos & @Stsantek they have "names" who cd sustain/build that vote share in coming yrs?
The move to a 4 slate NEC likely did c Indy's squeezed out dropping -7% to 10%. Since 2020 they have polled: 14%, 7%, 17% 10% so their vote does fluctuate a bit, but 3 regulars did poll 1,162, 821, 672 so they still do represent small regional level bases
In overview LTW remain strongest, but a realignment on left does seem to suggest "Post-Corbyn" (no surprise after YP CEC antics & rise of Greens) politics on the NEC with new Soft Left/Workerist Left boosted +2 at expense of Mom/CLPD -2
Vote Transfers
Looking at vote transfers (tho not as much data as 2020) @labtowin/@labour_first retaind 72% of vote. Their long-term Clause 1 "Win" message has resonance with a lot of their vote base. High vote retention worked with good vote management to hold that 4th seat
@PeoplesMomentum/@CLPD_Labour had even higher vote retention at 74%. Framing only some Lab members as "socialists" may well firm up a v hard vote & also useful when membership expands but may b more a defensive strategy when trying to win existing members?
@mainstreamlbr only had 40% vote retention for @catarnold_ (who looks 2 b already getting an "Ann Black" cross faction vote). This and a vote management 1,602 wider vote spread than LTW/LF meant the quite possible 3 seats from the poll ended up as 2. Looking at @mainstreamlbr transfrs boild down 2 oth slates their vote is 50% "Left" (gains frm Mom?) 25% "Mixed Left/Rest/Cent" & 25% "Centre". Food 4 thought 4 @lukewillhurst & @Neal_Compass ovr Mainstreams distinctiveness 2 oth slates 2 hold vote bloc together?
@leftrestoration interesting as new slate. Inevitably vote retention was lowest 4 a slate at 29% but both @AndyAchilleos & @Stsantek did promote their "independence" so it may b "names" count & they did poll 19% from other Indy cands above their own 9% vote? For @leftrestoration if u boil down their transfers 2 just other 3 slates, it is interesting 2 note their voters split Mom/CLPD 35%, Main 31% & LTW/LF 34% so they pick up votes from all sides of party 4 their class based analysis. Thus @leftrestoration demonstrated they can hold a cross-faction voter bloc together with a specific message & they may well b able to expand 9% vote share to 15%+ for a 2nd seat? The challenge 4 them is can their cross-faction message expand above that level?
Inevitably Indy vote was more mixed depending on individual cand. eg @NooriZahida had lot of Mom/CLPD vote, @wiseman_jo54566 had 28% Restoration (well above their 9% score) & @neerajpatil (&Turnbull/Davies) had lot of LTW/LF vote. Overall Indy vote by other faction looks to be around LTW/LF 37% Mainstream 22%, Mom/CLPD 21%, Restoration 19%. Clearly some Indy voters saw something in @leftrestoration to above average transfer to their cands to help them gain a seat?
Vote Transfers and Implicit Bias?
A sensitive issue 2 flag is both @mainstreamlbr & @PeoplesMomentum/@CLPD_Labour saw a BAME candidate lose. This did not affect @labtowin so much as @AbdiDuale_ electd. It may suggest both grps may have 2 review their vote transfers & recalc their vote management.
B4 I inadvertently start a "our slate supporters have less/more 'implicit bias' than yours" row, I wd seriously suggest in "post-factional era" that useful data on transfers enables ALL slates 2 measure issues like this & improve political educ/make adjustments. Having seen issues of 'implicit bias' in some Lab selections, its not just individual slate reviews, but also Indy transfers that provide data too, so a mature approach to challenge this across the board needs all slates & beyond to be supportive of each other.
Polling Performance
How did @LabourList @Survation poll do? I thought it did v well getting 7 of 9 elected in top 9 (It had Dar & Owusu-Nepaul & missd Thomas & Achilleos) & vote share of 39%-26%-29%-2%-4% compares well with 32%-25%-24%-9%-10%. Mainly it underestimated Rest & Ind
Estimated Outcomes Review
Reviewing outcomes analysis. Likely results range was LTW/LF 3-4, Main 2-3, Mom/CLPD 2-3, Rest 0-1, Ind 0-1. Polling suggested 3-3-3, but I added 4-3-2 & 3-3-2-1. 4-2-2-1 was missed out & shd have been included, but a 2-1 LTW/LF seat lead looked less plausible. Clearly not having a "2" Mainstream outcome to reflect its range was a mistake with just top 3 outcomes. As well as additional 4-2-2-1 we probably needed 3-2-3-1 & 4-2-3 outcomes too for 6 possible outcomes. That is something to bear in mind for #LabNEC2028?
For #LabNEC2028 ranges may be LTW/LF 3-4, Main 2-3, Mom/CLPD 2-3, Rest 0-2, Ind 0-1. @leftrestoration may currently have widest range simply because it came in 9th on 1st Rnd & 8th in final Rnd. Any polling then may narrow that to 0-1 or poss more likely 1-2?
Other NEC Seat results
More on the other seat results here. Wales was v close & new memb/TU franchise may have had impact. No surprise LTW hold Loc Gov seats tho Main+Mom/CLPD scores will be interesting & Youth seat (tho rep had been backd by OL in past) Close in Wales (+1% WLG), 14% swing to LTW (with lower Cllr electorate after local elections so t/o may be same) in Local Gov ballot. Youth closer than expected which might suggest some TU vote shifts?
Had a look at youth vote. It's not disaggregated but looking at past results back to 2020, I wd have thought @elsieortong at 72% (having won 51% & 66% in two prev elects) won in both halves & @afc_c_ a few more affil votes than SEA & Dis Lab who nominated him. That outcome wd seem to me to align better with the combination of @elsieortong 5 TU noms of at least 59% of TU vote (and she may have added more affil votes?) and the recent @YoungLabourUK Exec election outcomes. That seems 2 me to be the best estimate. I have yet to update my TU share of conference vote estimate where Unite's recent reduction of their affiliation by up to 25% may have meant @elsieortong's 5 TU noms % votes value was a bit higher too and again that wd align with vote outcome we see.
Political Outcomes
Party leadership may b both relaxed with result (as 4 slates & slight realignment 2 soft left works 4 defactionalise narrative) but also a little sad NW's Yasmine Dar lost seat as when she 1st stood on slate it was claimed she was a 2015 Burnham supporter!
As part of calm "factionalism" down narrative 1 easy thing Leadership/New GS/4 slates cd unite on is getting @LabourTraining 2 talk 2 @CompInPolitics on an online Compassion Training course 4 membs 2 implement a Forde recommendation?
For those who enjoy the minutiae there r now 5 people on the NEC who signed the Reset statement. Perhaps significant is a majority of them r Mainstream aligned which may c party culture, & policies as more the priority areas?
Yasmine Dar not on NEC now means only Ian Murray of FBU & Shabana Mahmood r on NEC frm its 2018-19 era, showing speed of turnover. However Luke Akehurst did remind me that Ellie Reeves, Jonathan Reynolds, Peter Wheeler & himself on it have earlier NEC experience. What with Ann Black standing down institutional tacit knowledge is important which is why some of us working to ensure the Ann Black NEC report archive back to 1999 is kept online as a useful record of NEC decisions & aggregating data is important for future.
The Factional Landscape Post Election
What this prob tells us is if u had a FPTP vote we wd have seen two slates get around 45% each just like pre-2015 with a mix of 5-4 or 6-3 splits. However instead with STV, instead of slates claiming "this justifies this" we explore a far more diverse membership. In pre-2015 Jon Lansman did articles on Left Futures site saying the 45%'s were solid political blocs but as I said at time 17 yrs of continuous 3-3 & 4-2 winner splits always told us that arnd 20-33% of members were splitting their vote 4 a mixed CLP NEC split. After 2015 the intense politics got "factional" all round & split voting declined to perhaps 10% & we even saw some1 as great as Ann Black dropped from a slate because she very sensibly split a ridiculously overlarge 7000+ member Brighton Lab into 3 CLPs! That last point illustrates that "tactical" legal challenges are simply not a "point of principle", just a tactic, & if slates really do want to move past "factionalism" they perhaps need to know the difference & apply long-term thinking not "tactics" to issues.
As a result of achieving STV, as the data above shows, along with excellent work by @LabourList & @Survation we now know a lot more about Labour members compared to say 15 years ago. I try to play my part too by collating stuff here. What that means is any "overclaims" by factions (& let's all see what "mandates" each of the slates claim from this election?) can be far better tested by reference to all the data on not just how members think but also how they behave with voting. Thus if everyone truly wants to reduce levels of "factionalism" they should very much welcome a range of "democratic tools" (eg Public Polling, STV, data aggregation) that enable us to transparently measure in detail what members think and then also do. Here, just as a bit of fun, are the current "mandates" being claimed by slates/cands in the post-factional era when the actual "decisive result" was 32%-25%-24%-9%-10% and 4-2-2-1-0!Make of them what you will? More seriously, if it were me, I wd, in spirit of Forde, start working out bits people can 1st agree on? Maybe @EmmaBurnell_ summd it up best in a Fordeist @CompInPolitics manner when she askd each slate 2 say nice things about each othr?
Future Elections
For #LabNEC2028 ranges may be LTW/LF 3-4, Main 2-3, Mom/CLPD 2-3, Rest 0-2, Ind 0-1. @leftrestoration may currently have widest range simply because it came in 9th on 1st Rnd & 8th in final Rnd. Any polling then may narrow that to 0-1 or poss more likely 1-2?
What is strategy for the slates next time? All of them picked optimum cand numbers & same applies next time so we might c LTW/LF 4, Main 3, Mom/CLPD 3, Rest 2 cands next time with LTW/LF aiming to hold its 4th seat and other 3 slates battling for 1 more?
With @leftrestoration optimum cand number was poss more by accident as started with 5/6 cands & used noms as a "Jungle Primary" 2 c who got on ballot. There is nothing wrong with using this but a slate may need 2 b clear aim is NEC memb+1 optimum number
Its likely @mainstreamlbr & @leftrestoration as new slates this time will build contact databases & improve vote management targeting to reduce vote spread just like the two longstanding slates do with a lot of experience now. Small margins may matter more then
Election Official Information and Other Useful items
Elections are below. Any assumed deadlines (do check directly on those) are set out above.
Labour List NEC Elections Video/Podcast - in effect a mini-hustings for the 4 slates . A very friendly debate. few interesting issues from it:
NEC members seemed a bit at variance on its Policy role. Important to bear in mind the NEC provides significant numbers of members to the NPF Joint Policy Committee and the Policy Commissions (9, 3, 6, 7, 4, 6, so one assumes pretty much every NEC member is on one of the six Commissions) plus the whole NEC also attends the Clause V meeting with the Shadow Cabinet and representatives of Labour Unions to agree the Manifesto., which is drawn from the "Party Programme" (stated in Party Rules) which is what the NPF develops over a 4 year cycle.
Membership Numbers not published any more. Important to note these were only published regularly from 2021-2025 and were not regularly done before that - see more information on the history of this on the Labour Archive page.
Finance details are mainly kept to the Business Board. This is presumably decided when the NEC Terms of Reference are agreed - see Labour Archive page for an old copy.
NEC members discussed how could members and not just the PLP influence the whether Andy Burnham was selected for Gorton & Denton. Important to note it not just PLP members but from the polling shown on Labour Dashboard Labour members themselves were not keen on Keir Starmer to stand down at that point, even though members were likely to vote Burnham in a contest. However after May elections member opinion changed and did want to see Andy Burnham become leader so both PLP and members both shifted at the same time.
Emma Burnell of Labour List who chaired was excellent and in particular in asking reps of slates to say something nice about another slate. Very Compassion in Politics good practice.
Other official documentation:
Past Internal Election Results are on the Labour Archive Page.
Election Slates
Main slates, groups and Independents
Labour to Win + Labour First + Progress (LTW/LF) - Slate probably appointed by Officers/Board/Commmittee
Mainstream + Open Labour (Main) - Slate balloted among members here and agreed here.
Momentum + CLPD (Mom/CLPD) - slate probably agreed by brokerage of a range of overlapping political and equality strand groups. They have a candidate site here.
Restoration (Rest) - Presumably agreed by any committee they have. Aim is to promote Working Class candidates across the slates
Independents (Ind)
These are also a number of women specific slates running for the Labour National Women's Committee
Labour Women Lead - aligned with Momentum/CLPD slate
Commentary on core tactics:
Compared to previous years all slates look to have put forward an optimum number of candidate to maximise/hold their position depending on how many incumbents:
LTW/LF - Defensive incumbency position to hold their 4 seats which seems sensible based on nomination numbers
Main - Aiming for one more than the two seats they hold from prev org candidates last time. They could have risked going for 4 based on nominations, but broadly going +1 on your previous result makes more sense unless clear polling of massive change and perhaps here reflects soft left "incrementalist" culture without stating it.
Mom/CLPD - Defensive incumbency position to hold their 3 seats which seems sensible based on nomination numbers
Rest - Went wide in submitting 5/6 cands at first but arguably a jungle primary to decide who stood. Could have gone for 1 candidate in first attempt, but having 2 declares they are a "slate" and they have two quite high profile names so worth a punt for them as long at their interslate transfers are high rather than just votes for individual candidates.
Generally the candidates were against the NEC having more power
Candidates felt NEC should continue to have two yearly elections. Not that many NEC members remember annual elections to the NEC!
NEC Contested Roles
Commentary
In overview we may see some small changes in the CLP section as the soft left Mainstream group establish a base on the NEC which could be at the expense of 1 Right or Left seat? Important to note though, that 3 Mainstream on the NEC would only be an advance of 1 seat on the Ann Black/Cat Arnold soft left seats of 2024 so this is less of a big gain and more reflecting a trend already established in 2024 which was possibly not considered so significant then.
The Wales seat is always highly contested and could well swing left this time in the Senedd election aftermath?
At the same time it is arguable that the unopposed Disabled Rep seat is switching from left to soft left.
Thus overall less a big change in elected seats than some might expect with the right possibly down -1/-2 to soft left and left =/-1. As I cover elsewhere on Labour Dashboard page with estimates on NEC composition, the operation of the NEC may be more important the actual election results
NEC CLP Reps - 9 to elect
An early list of candidates was here.
Candidates/Slates who have made the ballot based on nominations in 2026:
LTW/LF: 4 - 374 Nominations - 40% (-11%)
Mainstream: 3 - 305 Nominations - 34% (+12%) (Comparison is with Open Labour & Labour Women for NEC combined 22% noms share in 2022)
Mom/CLPD 3 - 168 Nominations - 18% (-2%) - see note below
Restoration 2 - 16 Nominations - 2% (New +2%)
Independent 5 - 57 Nominations - 6% (-1%)
Total: 17 (standing for 9 seats) - lowest number on ballot in 4 STV contests
Note: I have made an adjustment to the data above. The basic data said LTW/LF 168 Noms 42%, Mainstream 305 noms, 35%, Mon/CLPD 131 Noms 15%, Rest 16 noms 2%, Ind 57 noms 6%. However if Jess Barnard had been on nominations list longer and averaged her two colleagues Mom/CLPD would have had 168 Nominations and 18% share compared to LTW/LF 40% and Mainstream 34%, so I am using that figure for looking at comparative member behaviour as I think it is more accurate.
2024 Candidates and % nominations (and change on 2022 in brackets) for comparison:
Labour to Win: 6 51% (+9%) - won 4 seats
Momentum: 4 20% (-15%) - won 3 seats
Open Labour: 2 17% (+4%) - won 1 seat - now part of Mainstream
Labour Women for NEC: 5 5% (New +5%) - won 1 seat - now part of Mainstream
Independent: 10 7% (+5%) - no seats
Past Results
Results - Nominations
2026: LTW/LF 40%, Mom/CLPD 18%, Main 34%, Rest 2%, Ind 6% - see my note above on the raw data & my small 3% re-estimate
2024: LTW/LF 51%, Mom/CLPD 20%, OL 17%, LW4N 5%, Ind 7%
2022: LTW/LF 42%, Mom/CLPD 41%, OL 13% RL 2% Ind 3% (Note: RL were a short-lived left "Red Labour" equalities slate)
2020: LTW/LF 24%, Mom/CLPD 43%, OL 11%, Trib 7%, LLA 6%, Ind 9%
Results - % vote
2026: LTW/LF 32%, Mom/CLPD 24%, Main 25%, Rest 9%, Ind 10%
2024: LTW/LF 27%, Mom/CLPD 26%, OL 22%, LW4N 8% Ind 17%
2022: LTW/LF 44%, Mom/CLPD 39%, OL 9%, RL 1% Ind 7% (Note: RL were a short-lived left "Red Labour" equalities slate)
2020: LTW/LF 31%, Mom/CLPD 37%, OL 9%, Trib 4%, LLA 5%, Ind 14%
Results - seats
2026: LTW/LF 4, Mom/CLPD 2, Main 2, Rest 1
2024: LTW/LF 4, Mom/CLPD 3, OL 1, LW4N 1 (Outgoing NEC can be described as: LTW/LF 4, Mom/CLPD 3, Main 2)
2022: LTW/LF 4, Mom/CLPD 4, OL 1
2020: LTW/LF 3, Mom/CLPD 5, OL 1
Turnout - % and number of candidates standing
2026: 16.0%? - estimate from 36,127 votes cast. 17 candidates standing
2024: 12.6% - estimate from 44,710 votes cast. 27 candidates standing
2022: 18.2% - estimate from 69,889 votes cast. 19 candidates standing
2020: 27.4% - from 125,549 votes cast. 42 candidates standing
I will soon add data on Turnout back to 2004.
Commentary
Current Result Estimate: LTW/LF 3-4, Main 2-3, Mom/CLPD 2-3, Rest 0-1, Ind 0-1 (this is a very tentative estimate based on past results, nominations, incumbency trends & a re-estimate of nominations based on Jess Barnard having been eligible to be nominated all through suggesting 8 seats look reasonably clear but 4 groups of candidates could be in a battle for the final seat. Possible more likely potential seat outcomes could be 3-3-3, 3-3-2-1, and 4-3-2.
Based on the Survation poll below the two most likely scenarios are 3-3-3 or 4-3-2 at present.
In terms of what candidates need to get elected, if a 12.5% t/o first round (ie 2024 t/o) maybe 1st round 2,000 & a 3,000 quota. If a 25% t/o (ie 2020 t/o) maybe 1st round 4,000 & a 6,000 quota. I suspect the latter turnout is more likely
Whilst slates will determine a lot of vote, a return to pre-2015 more mixed (ie 25%+) voting plus individual personal votes will matter. Candidate will realise that under STV even within a slate there is a popularity contest as any Irish politician could tell you.
Also important to note a low poller in a slate (ie less than 3,000 on 1st round in 25% t/o) may still do better than non slate cands. This aay benefit Mainstream as whilst they should get 2 a possible higher "transfer friendliness" and means any 3rd low poller may benefit
What may upset calculations is if any Restoration and/or Indy gets say close to 4,000 1st Rnd on a 25% t/o as it might suggest more fragmentation/mixed voting & there is a scenario where we cd have 3-2-2-1-1 type outcome
In my estimates I have changd Mainstream to 2-3 frm 3 simply to take account of up to 1 Rest/Indy 3k 1st Rnd on 25% t/o. I did toy with changing LTW/LF to 2-4 band, but keeping 3-4 at pres based on nominations, incumbency & campaign operation but lean more to 3 at present
However based on nominations & a degree of Burnham bounce social norming I would lean to 3 for Mainstream. I keep Mom/CLPD at 2-3 based on noms/incumbency, but they may benefit to hold 3 from "Reset" transfers from Mainstream depending how well they poll early?
From this, there is a scenario where Mainstream outpoll Mom/CLPD in % vote but "overclump" on 2 cands, and their later transfers help Mom/CLPD hold their 3rd seat but Mainstream's 3rd loses out to a Rest/Indy for final seat for 3-3-2-1
Past NEC results are in 2024 are here.
Polling
Labour List/Survation released this poll on 29/7/2026 at start of balloting period. My commentary is on my tweet thread but also here:
Recalculating first preferences upwards to cover the whole vote my estimate is
LTW/LF: 39% - 3 seats
Mom/CLPD: 29% - 3 seats
Main: 26%: - 3 seats
Rest: 2% - 0 seats
Ind: 4% - 0 seats
In terms of shifts that would actualy see on 1st prefs with 2024:
LTW/LF up +12%,
Mom/CLPD +3%,
Mainstream down -4% on 2024 Open Lab/LW4NEC slates.
This may show how Ann Black drew votes from all wings whilst Indy down -13% in more contested election
A note of caution is 59% t/o sounds v high as t/o in NEC elects outside being held during Leader elect at same time has been since 2017: 30%, 21%, 33%, 35%, 27%, 18% and 12%. Of course it is possible in the absense of a leader election, members are treating this as a proxy Leader contest and I had assumed t/o wd rise from 12% in 2024 to over 25%, but the poll could be right and suggest members want to express a view? If so then the LTW/LF 39% score could be quite close to what Keir Starmer might have polled as shown in some May polls if he stood (but note not Streeting/Jones though) & Main/Mom/CLPD score at 55% may have been close to a Burnham score if fighting Starmer?
All 3 main factions will draw some comfort from poll.
LTW/LF will think they can still get 4 & take out 1 Mom/CLPD.
Mon/CLPD will be reassured vote decline may have stopped & can get 3 back even though weak in terms of CLP operation from nominations, which may be more a signal of coming conference votes on internal elections.
Mainstream may be pleased with 1 gain on 2 predecessor orgs but a little disappointed with vote share. Tho good base after Ann Black era & positioning means they may be able to go for 3 incumbents +1 in 2028 & gain a Mom/CLPD seat to strengthen their role.
Restoration will be disappointed with 1st pref score. A challenge they may face is their candidates may end up a lot in people's top 3 but not get enough early 1st prefs to get them in top 9 at start of count as they may be quite "transfer friendly" then. However assuming Restoration are not going away as a faction their 2 cands this time may be strong contenders in 2028 if they do miss out & they might focus on less names at noms stage then? Converting top 3 scores into 1st prefs is probably more about building engagement over a period?
Better known Indys may also face same issue as Restoration this time as the 3 main slate contest & perhaps a "proxy leader election" dominates narrative. However Indys have polled 14%, 7% & 17% in last 3 elects so they may still poll better than the poll suggests?
In the end it is just a poll & whilst likely a third of those who will vote have voted based on limited "ballot flow" models of a balloting period we have (if anyone has any more research I wd love 2 see it) a lot of people have not yet voted so all to play for.
Candidates on ballot:
Candidate Statements Booklet and online version of statements is here
LTW/LF - 4 candidates on ballot
Jane Thomas (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 106 nominations
Abdi Duale (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 98 nominations
Angela Davies (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 85 nominations
Peter Mason (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 85 nominations
Mainstream - 3 candidates on ballot
Cat Arnold (Main) - sitting NEC member - 107 nominations
Kerry Postlewhite (Main) - 100 nominations
Jovan Owusu-Nepaul (Main) - 98 nominations
Momentum/CLPD - 3 candidates on ballot
Gemma Bolton (Mom/CLPD) - sitting NEC member - 58 nominations
Yasmine Dar (Mom/CLPD) - sitting NEC member - 54 nominations
Jess Barnard (Mom/CLPD) - sitting NEC member - 27 nominations (Note: these are lower as she was suspended as a member for part of the nomination period)
Note Minesh Parekh has withdrawn. He stood to replace Jess Barnard if her suspension was not lifted.
Restoration - 2 Candidates on Ballot
Andrew Achilleos (Rest) - 10 nominations
Stella Tsantekidou (Rest) - 6 nominations
The following three candidates from Restoration failed to secure 5 CLP nominations
Sam Theodoridi (Rest)
David Littlefair (Rest)
Jake Croft (Rest)
Independent - 5 candidates on ballot
Some have stood before and polled quite well in the ballot, though none have been elected yet.
James Turnbull (Ind) – 18 nominations
Zahida Abbas Noori (Ind) - 16 nominations
John Wiseman (Ind) - 9 nominations
George Davies (Ind) - 8 nominations
Neeraj Patil (ind) – 6 nominations
Slate Preference Voting Orders in an STV election for CLP Reps
These are regionally broken down to stop any slate members being eliminated early and 3 of the 4 slates are operating such a system
No evidence that Restoration are making similar regional level recommendations but only have two candidate, though both seem based in London
The % membership size of each region can be found on the Labour Archive page
NEC Local Gov Reps - 2 to elect
Claire Holland (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 42 Nominations - 1084 (67% for the 2 in the slate)
Peter Wheeler (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 40 Nominations - 851 (67% for the 2 in the slate)
Elizabeth Dennis (Main) - 11 Nominations - 482 (16%)
Jamie Green (Mom/CLPD) - 7 Nominations - 487 (17%
A 10% swing to LTW/LF against Mom/CLPD and Mainstream single candidates compared to 2 Mom/CLPD candidates in 2024. This may relfect Cllr defections as well as the loss of Cllrs in London in the 2026 Elections
Previous Assumptions
Based on past nominations and votes this does looks more than likely to see no change based on nominations. How the Mom/CLPD and Mainstream candidate separately poll should be interesting whilst their combined share in a non-aggression pact may still be narrowing the gap, which has seen LTW/LF drop 15% since 2020. Important to note though the loss of 1,498 Cllrs in 2026 which may change composition of those voting
Comparative results
2026: LTW/LF 67%, Mom/CLPD 17%, Main 16%
2024: LTW/LF 57%, Mom/CLPD 35%, OL 8%
2022: LTW/LF/OL 67%, Mom/CLPD 33%
2020: LTW/LF/OL 72%, Mom/CLPD 28%
2018: LTW/LF/OL Unopposed
2016: LTW/LF/OL 79%, Ind 21%
NEC Welsh Rep
Ann Jones (LTW/LF) - sitting NEC member - 11 Nominations - 1,943 (52%)
Mick Antoniw (WLG/Mom/CLPD?) - 16 Nominations - 1,828 (48%)
Significant hold by LTW/LF in an always assumed close race
Earlier Assumptions
Note 1: This looks like a seat where we could see a change compared to 2024. Whilst Mick Antoniw is backed as the left candidate by WLG who is affiliated with Momentum, it should be noted he was an endorser on Keir Starmer's member election leaflet in 2020, so whilst a possible shift leftwards, if it happens he may be very engaged with the new Leadership. He is noted for his strong views in support of Ukraine so that may colour some of his other politics.
Note 2: Looks like a change is franchise for the Welsh seat ballot as looks like members and affiliates voting as I am sure it was just members in last 3 contests. This was confirmed in the Voting Booklet emailed to members and in this Unison statement here. This is organisationally possibly a good thing as it widens vote & brings Wales into line with Scotland where the Scottish NEC seat is determined by outcome of a member/affiliate ballot in the Scot Leader election. Whether it has an impact on the political outcome is another thing which we will only see, when we get the result and compare votes with the 3 previous contests.
Comparative Results on Member only Franchise until 2024 and Member/Affiliate vote in 2026
2024: LTW/LF 52% WLG/Mom/CLPD 48%
2024: LTW/LF 53% WLG/Mom/CLPD 47%
2022: LTW/LF 60% WLG/Mom/CLPD 40%
2020: LTW/LF 51% WLG/Mom/CLPD 49%
NEC Youth Rep
Caspar Chatham (Ind) - 7 Nominations - 28%
Elsie Greenwood (LTW/LF) (GMB) sitting NEC member - 66 Nominations - 72%
As expected an easy LTW/LF hold
Previous Assumption
Based on nominations, level of union support and recent Young Labour elections this looks likely to see no change.
Comparative results
2026: LTW/LF 72%, Ind 28%,
2024: LTW/LF/OL 66%, Mom/CLPD 34%,
2022: LTW/LF/OL 51%, Mom/CLPD 43%, Ind 6%
2020: LTW/LF 39%, Mom/CLPD 61%
NEC and National Officer Posts - Elected Unopposed
NEC Disability Rep
Emily Pomroy-Smith (Ind) (Unite)
This was assumed to be a contest, but the Unions have backed Emily Pomroy-Smith who ran as an Independent for CAC last year and she has been elected unopposed. Having stood on a soft left slate with Cat Arnold in 2024, it is assumed she will as well as aligning with left leaning unions, also align with the likely Maistream reps likely to be elected to the NEC. As her predecessor was previously endorsed by Momentum/CLPD it could be argued this is a small shift from 2015-19 era Left to Soft Left.
NEC BAME Rep
Carol Sewell (Unison)
NEC Treasurer
Ruth Brady (GMB)
Auditors
Chris Kitchen (NUM)
Gwlyan Brinkworth (GMB)
Other Party Committee Elections by Conference Delegates
Based on nominations some of the CLP Rep contests below may look closer than some think, but based on the 2025 Conference Delegate composition link which can be found on the Labour Dachboard page, it is likely these may see up to 70%+ LTW/LF wins. The most interesting thing may be to see if candidates backed by Mainstream poll better than Momentum/CLPD candidates?
National Constitutional Committee
NCC CLP Reps
LTW/LF Slate
Alice Smart (LTW/LF) - 58 Nominations
Sheri-Ann Bhim (LTW/LF) - 57 Nominations
Sue Pugh (LTW/LF) - 56 Nominations
Jonathan Hawkes (LTW/LF )- 52 Nominations
Independent
Rich Taylor (Independent) - 50 Nominations
Momentum/CLPD slate
Harry Stratton (Mom/CLPD) -31 Nominations
Rachel Garnham (Mom/CLPD) - 31 Nominations
Dave Levy (Mom/CLPD) - 25 Nominations
Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill (Mom/CLPD) - 25 Nominations
NCC TU Reps
Elected unopposed
Wendy Nicholls (Unison)
Bridie McCreesh (Unite)
Kelley Pinkney (USDAW)
Margaret Clarke (GMB?)
National Women's Committee
NWC CLP Reps
Important to note this has a number of Women specific slates on top of the usual ones and links to their webpages are above.
LTW/LF Slate
Angela Morey (LTW/LF) - 36 Nominations
Sagal Abdi-Wali (Labour to Win)(LTW/LF) - 35 Nominations
Lucy Smith (LTW/LF) - 33 Nominations
Odiri Erheriene-essi (LTW/LF) - 32 Nominations
Nazia Rehman (LTW/LF )- 31 Nominations
Alison Gray (LTW/LF) - 30 nominations
Momentum Slate
Jean Crocker (Momentum) - 25 Nominations
Sandra Wyman (Momentum) - 21 Nominations
Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill (Momentum) - 17 Nominations
Rathi Guhadasan (Momentum) - 11 Nominations
CLPD/Labour Women Lead Slate
Ann Henderson (Labour Women Lead/CLPD) - 26 Nominations
Emina Ibrahim (Labour Women Lead/CLPD) - 12 Nominations
Labour Women United Slate
Nikki Belfield (Labour Women United) - 16 Nominations
Catherine McLean (Labour Women United) - 16 Nominations
Saranya Thambirajah (Labour Women United) - 15 Nominations
Labour Women's Declaration Slate
Miriam Rice (Labour Women’s Declaration) - 16 Nominations
Lynne Troughton (Labour Women’s Declaration) - 13 Nominations
Independent
Sree Radhika Settipalli (Independent) - 15 Nominations
NWC TU Reps
Elected unopposed
Jacqueline Keddie (Unison)
Abbey Gutteridge (Community)
Emily Rowles (USDAW)
Holly Williamson (GMB)
Maria Exall (CWU)
Suzanne Abachor (Unite)
National Policy Forum
I have not done a full analysis here yet, but do give a link to an analysis of the CLP Nominations
Roles up for Election
The following national positions are also up for election. The type of election is listed and where this is a full or part large OMOV ballot for some or all members this is underlined. Ones where all or some CLPs can nominate are marked in Red.
National Executive Committee:
Treasurer - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by members & 50% elected by TUs
9 CLP Representatives - elected by members in an OMOV ballot
Welsh Rep - elected by members in an OMOV ballot
Youth Rep - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by Youth members & 50% elected by TUs
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Rep - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by BAME members & 50% elected by TUs
Disabled members’ Rep - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by Disabled members & 50% elected by TUs
2 Local Government Representatives - elected by Cllrs in an OMOV ballot
3 Backbench MPs - elected by MPs
National Constitutional Committee:
4 CLP Representatives - elected by CLP conference delegates
4 Trade Union Representatives -elected by TUs
1 Socialist Societies Representative -elected by Socialist Societies
National Policy Forum:
5 CLP representatives, including one youth representative, from each of the eleven nations and regions - elected by conference delegates
Other NPF reps are appointed by their nominating body
NEC members are ex-officio
Conference Elected Role
2 Auditors - electoral college: 50% OMOV elected by CLP delegates & 50% elected by TUs
National Women’s Committee:
6 CLP representatives - elected by CLP delegates
6 Trade Union Representatives - elected by TUs
Local Government Rep - elected by the ALC
Socialist Societies Rep - elected by Socialist Societies
PLP Rep - elected by MPs
Spring 2026 Elections - Labour Students and Young Labour
Labour Students (officers, regional and other representatives) and the Young Labour National Committee (officers, trade union, socialist society and regional representatives) will be elected in spring 2026, so that committees are in place before university freshers’ fairs.
Two main slates so far:
Organise backed by Labour to Win, Labour First and Progress
Renew backed by people from Mainstream, Open Labour and Momentum
Original Election Result
My tweet on the results here. In summary:
In the balloted seats Organise slate seems 2 have won 10-8 on Young Labour Executive & 20-3 on Labour Students Executive compared to Renew slate based on latter's score.
Important 2 note here that there were 18 Ballot places on Young Labour Committee & 23 on Labour Students which are not the only Executive places as on Young Labour there are TU/Soc Soc/Coop/Lab Stud/NEC+NPF reps which add 16 for a total of 34 plus also Wales/Scottish Labour Student reps on Lab Students exec for a total of 25.
As a result of above, it's a rough estimate, but I would expect the composition of the two Committees would be:
Re-Run Election Results
Note: 16/03/26 - Due to what looks like an administrative error, (use of 12 months freeze date instead of 6 months) both elections are now being rerun. New results will be posted below.
In summary and based on the Renew slate report here:
In the balloted seats Organise slate seems 2 have won 13-5 on Young Labour Executive & 22-1 on Labour Students Executive compared to Renew slate based on latter's score.
Important 2 note here that there were 18 Ballot places on Young Labour Committee & 23 on Labour Students which are not the only Executive places as on Young Labour there are TU/Soc Soc/Coop/Lab Stud/NEC+NPF reps which add 16 for a total of 34 plus also Wales/Scottish Labour Student reps on Lab Students exec for a total of 25.
As a result of above, it's a rough estimate, but I would expect the composition of the two Committees would be:
Young Labour: Organise + allies 26, Renew + allies 8 - new committee will be listed here.
Labour Students: Organise 24, Renew 1
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