Political Parties — Local

Abstract

The national organisations of the political parties monopolise publicity in the press and on radio and television, but it is the local branches with which the voter is likely to come into contact. Both the Conservative and Labour Parties have branches in each of the 633 constituencies in Great Britain, as have the Liberal Democrats in all but a few of them. For many years the main British political parties kept out of Northern Ireland, but the Conservative Party established branches in the early 1990s and contested 11 of the 17 seats in the 1992 election, without gaining any representation.