Membership of the NF peaked at 17,500 in 1971. By 1985 it was estimated to have 1000 members. In the 2015 GE it fielded 7 candidates, who each garnered an average of 155 votes.
The younger and electorally more successful BNP peaked at a membership of around 10,000 in 2010, its 339 candidates picking up 563,000 votes (1.9%) in that year's GE. In the 2019 GE it had a single candidate, who received 510 votes. Its membership is mostly white, male, of low education, and ageing, and is drawn from former Labour voters who feel culturally disenfranchised by the increases in immigration during and since the Blair years, with a particular antipathy towards Muslims, with an expressed fear of the Islamification of their communities.
EDL is described in Wikipedia as a 'rag-bag' movement, generally comprising poorly educated, disenfranchised, unemployed working class young men (80%) from within the urban culture of football hooliganism. There is a high reported incidence of physical and sexual abuse in childhood. There is no membership as such, and the movement is estimated to have peaked at about 15,000 participants in 2011. Its single motivation is a hatred of Islam, often expressed in violence. At its peak it could field up to around 3000 people at a demonstration, but this would now be reduced to a handful, at most 300.
