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Labour · Money map

Who actually funds the Labour

Every declared donation to the Labour on the Electoral Commission register, aggregated by year, by donor type, by sector and by accounting unit. The headline number on the policy page is £378,441,229 across 14,804 declared donations from 2,615 distinct donors. The figures below are the decomposition.

By donor type

The most diagnostic single decomposition. Tells you who actually owns the party.

Donor typeDonationsTotal% of all-time
Trade Union7,081£164.5m43.5%
Individual2,704£81.9m21.6%
Public Fund160£48.8m12.9%
Other95£42.3m11.2%
Company1,357£27.3m7.2%
Unincorporated Association2,500£9.9m2.6%
Limited Liability Partnership173£2.4m0.6%
Registered Political Party627£1.1m0.3%
Friendly Society85£296k0.1%
Trust16£52k0.0%
Unidentifiable Donor5£4k0.0%
Impermissible Donor1£9000.0%

Year by year

Declared total per calendar year. Election years and leadership-change years usually spike.

YearDonationsTotalScale
2026116£3.9m
2025434£10.2m
20241,308£48.6m
2023645£29.4m
2022512£19.8m
2021568£16.3m
2020344£14.2m
2019936£25.2m
2018341£16.1m
2017999£23.9m
2016535£20.6m
2015687£21.3m
2014564£11m
2013314£11.9m
2012316£6.9m
2011345£12.4m
2010690£13.8m
2009628£10.5m
2008560£8.4m
2007689£8.5m
2006451£6.4m
2005865£9m
2004621£8m
2003443£9.3m
2002391£7m
2001502£6m

Where the money landed · accounting unit

Money that lands at Central HQ funds the party machine. Money that lands at a constituency association funds a single seat. The mix tells you whether the party is centrally bankrolled or locally rooted.

WhereDonationsTotal% of all-time
Central HQ5,025£339.4m89.7%
Constituency-level9,316£32.3m8.5%
Other98£3.9m1.0%
Regional / liaison365£2.8m0.7%

Top funding sectors

Donor names matched against the site’s sector classifier. Untagged donors (individuals, generic companies) are not included — this is the political-economy view.

SectorDistinct donorsTotal
Trade union30£111.8m
Finance29£4.6m
Property52£1.9m
Media12£368k
Gambling7£169k
Tech8£126k
Pharma2£13k
Defence1£6k
Oil & gas1£2k

Top 30 donors · lifetime

#DonorTypeDonationsLifetime total
1House of CommonsPublic Fund109£75.5m
2Unite the UnionTrade Union663£40m
3UNISONTrade Union1048£29.7m
4GMBTrade Union1087£27.7m
5Lord David Sainsbury of TurvilleIndividual19£11.9m
6Union of Shop Distributive and Allied WorkersTrade Union333£10.1m
7Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied WorkersTrade Union203£9.4m
8Communication Workers UnionTrade Union641£8.6m
9House of LordsPublic Fund44£7.3m
10Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)Trade Union171£5.9m
11Mr Gary LubnerIndividual14£4.8m
12Quadrature Capital LimitedCompany1£4m
13Ecotricity LimitedCompany9£3.7m
14AmicusTrade Union207£3.5m
15Lakshmi MittalIndividual3£3.1m
16Transport and General Workers UnionTrade Union139£3.1m
17Scottish ParliamentPublic Fund53£3m
18Unite - AMICUS SectionTrade Union126£2.8m
19Nigel DoughtyIndividual7£2.8m
20Communication Workers Union (CWU)Trade Union341£2.5m
21Lord Sainsbury of TurvilleIndividual2£2.5m
22Electoral CommissionPublic Fund11£2.5m
23Ms Francesca PerrinIndividual14£2.4m
24The Electoral CommissionPublic Fund10£2.4m
25Mr Martin TaylorIndividual15£2.3m
26Labour Together LimitedCompany109£2.2m
27Ecotricity Group LimitedCompany16£2.1m
28Mr Gary LubnerIndividual16£2.1m
29Lord na SainsburyIndividual1£2m
30Unite - TGWU SectionTrade Union45£2m

All-time, all accounting units. Includes both monetary donations and non-cash benefits.