A lot has been made of how the Conservative Party struggles with youth recruitment and getting the young to vote for them. So the question is, has the Conservative Party lost those votes forever, and is it now destined to dwindle into obscurity? Or should its capacity to reinvent itself not be in doubt?

This market attempts to quantify “how doomed is the Conservative Party?” Please add additional statements if you feel they’re in the broad spirit of that question. If you do add statements, please add them such that they complete the sentence “In 2040, the UK Conservative and Unionist Party has/is …”. Statements that do not follow that pattern may be resolved N/A without warning. If you need to clarify, please do so in the comments.

Each statement resolves to its’ validity as-at market close date on 31st December 2040 if it cannot resolve before.

Clarifications / minutiae for statements:

• registered with the Electoral Commission

  • The UK EC or any successor organisation.

  • If political parties do not require registration in 2040 then resolves NO.

  • If the existing Conservative Party registration lapses then resolves NO even if a successor later registers a party with the same name.

    • Exclusion: if this seems to be purely an admin error and a party that is clearly substantially the same re-registers before the next general election then this would not cause a NO resolution.

• split into multiple electorally-successful parties since 2024.

  • Split: at least 3 sitting Conservative MPs have joined another party, such that they represent >= 50% of the recipient party’s sitting MPs.

  • Electorally-successful: party goes on to win >0 seats at the first General Election following the split, and <50% of “splitter” former Conservative MPs lost their seats at that GE.

  • Multiple: after any split, >1 of the resulting parties (including any remaining Conservative Party) meet the “electorally successful” criteria.

  • Spirit of the law: if every MP abandons the Conservative Party for another party and they continue to win elections, that shouldn’t count a split but rather a politicised re-branding.

• BPC-member poll in the past year:

  • British Polling Council or successor org.

  • If no BPC or successor org exists, any poll can count subject a one-week Manifold poll of “Is $POLLSTER an open, transparent and generally accurate provider of UK Political Polling?” Having a majority of YES responses.

  • “In the past year” = published between 1st Jan 2040 and 31st Dec 2040 with poll responses gathered at least partially in the same period.