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Section sizes

Section size for Conservative Party (UK) (62 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	28,503	28,503
History	439	142,815
Origins	2,768	2,768
1867–1914: Conservatives and Unionists	4,592	4,592
First World War	1,980	1,980
1920–1945	2,087	2,087
1945–1975: Post-war consensus	81	8,115
Popular dissatisfaction	675	675
Modernising the party	5,332	5,332
1965–1975: Edward Heath	2,027	2,027
1975–1990: Margaret Thatcher	7,041	7,041
1990–1997: John Major	7,190	7,190
1997–2010: Political wilderness	6,772	6,772
2010–2024: Austerity, Brexit, and the pandemic	7,587	37,928
2010–2016: David Cameron	5,909	5,909
2016–2019: Theresa May	5,373	5,373
2019–2022: Boris Johnson	8,025	8,025
2022: Liz Truss	6,376	6,376
2022–2024: Rishi Sunak	4,658	4,658
Economic policy	3,813	3,813
Social policy	12,513	12,513
Foreign policy	11,675	11,675
Defence policy	5,070	5,070
Health and drug policy	3,427	3,427
Education and research	3,663	3,663
Family policy	3,274	3,274
Jobs and welfare policy	5,444	5,444
Energy and climate change policy	3,846	3,846
Justice, crime and security policy	1,623	1,623
Transport and infrastructure policy	4,745	4,745
European Union policy	2,574	2,574
Constitutional policy	2,236	2,236
Organisation	20	31,655
Party structure	2,970	2,970
Membership	4,686	4,686
Prospective parliamentary candidates	2,232	2,232
Young Conservatives	2,654	2,654
Conferences	252	252
Funding	4,899	11,248
Financial ties to Russian oligarchs	6,349	6,349
International organisations	3,122	3,122
Logo	4,471	4,471
Party factions	3,069	11,204
One-nation Conservatives	2,014	2,014
Free-market Conservatives	3,301	3,301
Traditionalist Conservatives	1,659	1,659
Relationships between the factions	1,161	1,161
Electoral performance and campaigns	2,050	20,661
UK general election results	18,611	18,611
Notes	1,045	1,045
Associated groups	106	2,798
Ideological groups	1,032	1,032
Interest groups	431	431
Think tanks	226	226
Alliances	467	467
Party structures	536	536
See also	409	409
Notes	74	74
References	33	33
Further reading	6,678	8,176
Historiography	1,498	1,498
External links	2,178	2,178
Total	249,551	249,551

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One of three

The CP is one of THREE, not two main parties. --95.24.76.0 (talk) 14:45, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like it would give disproportionate weight to one of the other parties; based on this edit, I assume you mean the Lib Dems. In which case I'd say, no – there are two main parties as parliamentary seats are what count. — Czello ^(music) 14:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Within the EU, the UK is one of the largest recipients of research funding in the European Union

Wouldn't it be time to write 'was'? Regards, ULF 2001:4C80:40:493:9AEE:CBFF:FEE7:FBAD (talk) 09:08, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Czello ^(music) 09:11, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marriage equality

"According to an estimation of the right-wing Bow Group think-tank, in 2013 the Conservative Party lost 35–40% of its membership due to the Same Sex Marriage Bill."

This is a baseless assertion. It should be deleted.

Citation link is dead, and Bow Group provides no data to ground this claim. "Evidence" comes from claimed "canvassing" of 100 local associations, typically one per constituency. UK has over 600 constituencies.

Same group found that average age of Conservative Party members is 72.

If not deleted, it should be contextualized:

"The right-wing Bow Group think tank claimed the Conservative Party lost 35–40% of its membership due to the Same Sex Marriage Bill in 2013. It based the claim on a canvassing of a fraction of local associations; it did not conduct a poll. The same group stated in 2017 that the average age of a Conservative Party member may be 72."

https://www.bowgroup.org/the-bow-group-finds-that-the-average-age-of-a-conservative-party-member-is-72/ 108.51.52.223 (talk) 13:01, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~== Policies section could be replaced with a Recent Policies section. ==~~

The policies section contains information from a decade or more ago. A soultion to this could be changing the ''Policies'' section to ''Modern policies'', focusing on the four recent Conservative manifestos. 2A0A:EF40:E4A:E101:319F:4C4A:6D08:9EEC (talk) 22:06, 11 June 2024 (UTC)( Blocked sockpuppet of Lam312321321, see investigation)[reply]

That would be counter to the WP:RECENTISM guideline. Helper201 (talk) 03:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Directly Elected Mayors Count

The article lists 2 Conservative mayors but there is only 1 92.40.218.87 (talk) 22:53, 20 July 2024 (UTC) At the foot of the infobox they claim to have 9 Conservative mayors in combined authorities, including Mayor Of London. Somebody please correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.97.236.81 (talk) 08:49, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Cambial — foliar❧ 17:27, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Right-wing to centre-right

This makes no sense.

Should be centre-right to right-wing like other pages. 2A02:C7C:75BE:B300:1C07:226B:DF20:61B3 (talk) 01:41, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The greater weight of reliable sources supports the term "right-wing", thus it appears first. Other pages, such as Electoral history of the Conservative Party (UK), use the same. Cambial — foliar❧ 06:57, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]