What happened to Your Party?

2026 UK Elections: The Muted Threat of Your Party

Corbyn’s seeming reluctance to found his own political party last September — having to be persuaded by former Labour MP Zarah Sultana — may be seeping into Your Party’s campaign ahead of the upcoming May 2026 UK elections. The party has endured a difficult first half-year: internal policy and leadership disputes, boycotted conferences, multiple MPs defecting, and a rival socialist party in the Greens surging in the polls. The local elections should represent an ideal opportunity to establish a foothold in local politics, yet the party appears to be squandering it.

In the House of Commons, not even their elected parliamentary leader Corbyn sits officially as a Your Party MP¹; Sultana remains the only one to do so. As of April 4, 2026, Your Party holds 29 councillors across the country,² with a majority facing re-election next month — leaving little time to consolidate their position.

Pre-founding polls placed Your Party (YP) as high as 15%, a figure that fell to approximately 5% during the party’s summer infighting. FindOutNow is currently the only pollster to survey them reliably, and their numbers remain just above 1% — a stark contrast to the Greens, who are averaging approximately 17%, some polls that include them even out them under 1%. In response, YP appears to be pursuing a hyperlocal strategy: endorsing independent candidates and targeting specific councils such as Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Redbridge in London. While potentially effective, these are areas where the Greens had been expected to make substantial gains, raising questions about where Your Party intends to carve out its distinct place on the political spectrum. It should be noted however, that a hyperlocal electoral strategy has been beneficial to the Liberal Democrats, who are known for their by-election gains and outsized representation due to FPTP (at least compared to other smaller parties).

The Guardian reported that Your Party would endorse 250 candidates running against approximately 2,100 Labour candidates, many of whom are independents rather than Your Party members.³ This raises an obvious question: had the party secured more candidates earlier, it could have fielded a far larger slate. The gap is particularly notable given that devolved parliament elections are also taking place this May. Whether by strategic design or logistical failure, the party has not entered candidates in either the Welsh or Scottish elections.

The Welsh branch’s website remains untranslated and contains no content,⁴ and the main Your Party page addresses only its English strategy. Whether the party intends to contest the Senedd is unclear.

Other parties on the ballot include the Communist Party of Britain, making Your Party’s apparent absence conspicuous. Were they to run, Senedd’s proportional electoral system would require roughly 16% of the vote — less than one-sixth — to win a single seat in any constituency, a threshold that current polling suggests Your Party is highly unlikely to reach.

The National, a pro-Scottish independence newspaper, reported last week that Your Party Scotland would field no candidates in May, after its next committee meeting was scheduled one day after the candidate nominations deadline closed.⁵ The party also voted in favour of Scottish independence, aligning itself with the Scottish Greens — a position that could have helped build a pro-independence majority in Holyrood. Instead, with no candidates standing, the party forfeits any prospect of meaningful gains in Scotland for the next five years.

Rather than a Corbynite revival, the May elections are likely to deliver significant council gains to the Greens — potentially several hundred seats, surpassing the total number of candidates Your Party will even field. The question is not just what the party will achieve, but what it could have been.