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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 £355,595,286 across 13,998 declared donations from 2,531 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 Union6,748£153.9m43.3%
Individual2,546£78.3m22.0%
Public Fund145£45.8m12.9%
Other85£39.2m11.0%
Company1,297£25.5m7.2%
Unincorporated Association2,309£9.1m2.6%
Limited Liability Partnership167£2.3m0.6%
Registered Political Party599£1.1m0.3%
Friendly Society82£291k0.1%
Trust14£51k0.0%
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
2026100£2.9m
2025432£10.1m
20241,296£47.3m
2023571£27.9m
2022449£18.2m
2021486£14.7m
2020294£10.5m
2019806£22.4m
2018294£14.2m
2017854£21.2m
2016410£18.4m
2015627£18.7m
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 HQ4,648£314.9m88.6%
Constituency-level8,724£29.3m8.3%
Other270£8.7m2.4%
Regional / liaison356£2.7m0.7%

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£103.4m
Finance27£4.6m
Property50£1.9m
Media12£368k
Gambling7£169k
Tech8£126k
Pharma2£13k
Defence1£6k
Oil & gas1£2k

Top 30 donors · lifetime

#DonorTypeDonationsLifetime total
1House of CommonsOther101£71.3m
2Unite the UnionTrade Union595£36m
3UNISONTrade Union1004£27.1m
4GMBTrade Union1038£26.4m
5Lord David Sainsbury of TurvilleIndividual19£11.9m
6Union of Shop Distributive and Allied WorkersTrade Union326£10.1m
7Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied WorkersTrade Union190£8.2m
8Communication Workers UnionTrade Union560£8m
9House of LordsPublic Fund36£6.1m
10Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)Trade Union167£5.7m
11Quadrature Capital LimitedCompany1£4m
12Mr Gary LubnerIndividual12£3.9m
13AmicusTrade Union207£3.5m
14Lakshmi MittalIndividual3£3.1m
15Transport and General Workers UnionTrade Union139£3.1m
16Unite - AMICUS SectionTrade Union126£2.8m
17Nigel DoughtyIndividual7£2.8m
18Scottish ParliamentOther48£2.7m
19Ecotricity LimitedCompany6£2.6m
20Communication Workers Union (CWU)Trade Union340£2.5m
21Lord Sainsbury of TurvilleIndividual2£2.5m
22The Electoral CommissionPublic Fund10£2.4m
23Mr Martin TaylorIndividual14£2.3m
24Ecotricity Group LimitedCompany13£2.1m
25Labour Together LimitedCompany106£2.1m
26Electoral CommissionPublic Fund10£2m
27Lord na SainsburyIndividual1£2m
28Unite - TGWU SectionTrade Union45£2m
29Ms Francesca PerrinIndividual11£1.9m
30Mr John MillsIndividual8£1.7m

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