The Green Party has hit 225,000 members

Taking place on Thursday 7 May, the 2026 local elections are fast approaching. If you’re an outsider party looking to do well, this is the moment when you want the maximum momentum. As such, it’s good news for the Green Party that they just hit a brand new milestone:

Reform, meanwhile, are embroiling themselves in an endless stream of scandals while sliding down the polls.

Mass membership

The Green Party’s membership has skyrocketed since Zack Polanski took over. As James Wright reported for us in October 2025:

Green Party membership has skyrocketed to 115,000 – a jump of 50,000 members since their recent leadership election. Meanwhile, the latest figures show Labour is losing a member around every ten minutes. In other words, they’ve been dropping 152 members a day. With that direction, it’s no wonder Labour is not releasing updated membership figures.

At that point, the party membership had nearly doubled. Since then, it’s almost doubled again. It would be a massive upset if it doubled once more from here, but we can’t rule anything out at this point.

Reform have also built a substantial membership, as the BBC reported in December 2025:

Reform UK claims it is now the largest political party in Britain, following reports Labour has lost more members.

According to the Times newspaper, external, internal figures show Labour’s membership has fallen below 250,000.

Reform said it had more than 268,000 paid-up members, which would mean it has overtaken Labour to become the biggest party by membership in the UK.

Labour refused to comment on the accuracy of the membership figures in the Times, with a spokesperson saying they would be published in the party’s annual report.

If the above figures remain accurate, the Greens could potentially become the largest party in the UK this year. This is especially true if they do well in the local elections, and they subsequently enjoy a post-ballot bounce like what they saw after Hannah Spencer became the MP for Gorton & Denton.

Green Party — On the up

As we reported, the Greens have pulled ahead of Reform in some polls:

Lord Ashcroft is far from the most well-respected pollster, but other polls are showing that the Greens have overtaken Labour and the Tories while Reform stagnate:

Individual polls might not tell us much, but looking at all the polls over time gives an idea of which way the wind is blowing. On the topic of momentum, Politico’s poll of polls shows that the Greens are on up the up while Reform have squandered their lead (the sort of lead which could have won them a majority):

Results

Regardless of momentum, Reform could still outperform the other parties in the local elections — Green Party included. This is what Elections Etc predicted in March:

We do know that polling has often failed to reflect Green support — most notably in the Gorton & Denton by-election, where the party outperformed all expectations (encouraging another 25,000 people to become members).

We could see similar in the local elections, but even if we don’t, the more councils Reform run, the more the endless scandals will increase, because these people are terrible at being in power. This is dreadful for the areas that will suffer, of course, which is why we should all do what we can now to keep Reform out of power.

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