Saturday, 27 July 2013

UKIP receives fifth highest donations in 2012

UKIP received the fifth highest amount of donations to a political party in 2012 according to the Electoral Commission.

Labour received and spent the most by quite a margin even without adding in donations laundered through the Co-operative Party.  The Tories were the second highest funded party followed by the Lib Dems and the SNP.  UKIP narrowly beat the Co-operative Party and Sinn Féin to receive the fifth highest level of donations.

The Lib Dems, SNP, Sinn Féin and SDLP all spent more money than they received - over £300k more in the case of the Lib Dems and SNP.

PartyIncome
Labour£33,024,000
Conservatives£24,348,000
Lib Dems£6,023,543
SNP£2,300,459
UKIP£1,227,802
Co-operative Party£1,180,584
Sinn Féin£1,090,792
Green Party£781,478
Plaid Cymru£683,284
BNP£646,843
DUP£479,360
UUP£381,404
SDLP£338,177
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