The most successful fascist organisation in British electoral politics is the British National Party (BNP) which got [943,598 votes in the 2009 European elections](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_999999.stm). That year a [leaked party membership list](https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/oct/19/bnp-membership-list-constituency) revealed the party had 12,656 members. This was well below the figure of [40,000 members which the British Union of Fascists (BUF) achieved in the 1930s](https://www.jstor.org/stable/260327), which is still the largest fascist organisation to have existed in Britain. The BNP is believed to only exist today to collect on the legacies it was left by former members who won’t have changed their wills. Occasionally the BNP contests elections but this is rare and they only ever do badly.