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he won the Labour leader vote twice by a lot and he doubled the size of the Labour Party membership.
Labour membership: 485,000
People aged 20-30: approx. 7 million
Total electorate: 47-49 millionThe belief that support from the first two groups alone can with an election is partly why Labour lost the election.
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And everyone who intends to vote for a party joins it as a member right. A doubling in a parties membership from across the country wouldn't be a barometer for wider support as a whole either.
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Also, click the last link I put in the comment you replied to. It has an easy to understand graph helpfully with the Conservative party membership numbers too.
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20somethings aren't voters? To try and deny he had huge support is strange, he won the Labour leader vote twice by a lot and he doubled the size of the Labour Party membership.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-election-result-vote-share-increased-1945-clement-attlee-a7781706.html%3famp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/24/labour-leadership-jeremy-corbyn-wins-landslide-victory-party
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148118815408