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TABLE 4
Primrose League Membership and Habitation Totals, 1884-1901
Total New Total New
Year Members Members K. D. A. Habs. Habs.
1884 947 747 153 57 46
1885 11366 10419 8071 1381 1914 169 123
1886 237283 225917 32645 23381 181257 1200 1031
1887 565861 328578 50258 39215 476388 1724 524
1888 672606 106745 54580 42791 575235 1877 153
1889 810228 137622 58180 46216 705832 1986 109
1890 910852 100624 60795 48796 801261 2081 95
1891 1001292 90040 63251 50973 887063 2134 53
1892 1075243 73951 65149 52914 957180 2188 54
1893 1131821 56578 66570 54623 1010628 2233 45
1894 1198431 66610 67896 56147 1074388 2275 42
1895 1259808 61377 69167 57632 1133009 2296 21
1896 1315128 55320 70475 59117 1185536 2326 30
1897 1376428 61300 71563 60484 1244381 2346 20
1898 1430019 53591 72590 61817 1295612 2360 14
1899 1475352 45333 73566 62942 1338844 2371 11
1900 1518561 43209 2380 9
1901 1558750 40189 2396 16
However, as the League itself admitted on numerous occasions in
response to criticism from Liberal circles, the figures provided were
based on the cumulative list of members, rather than active
subscribers.
Habitation numbers were also subject to inflated values.
In some instances new Habitations appeared to be little more than
revived or amalgamated associations which had failed to pay dues over a
1899 are provided in The Primrose League Gazette, 1 September 1899.
Figures for the years 1900 and 1901 are calculated based on the stated
numbers of additional Habitations for these years as provided in the
Gazette issues of 1 June 1900 and 1 June 1901, respectively.
New Habitations column-Derived in the same fashion as the New
Members column. The figures for 1900 and 1901 are not calculations,
but numbers provided in the Gazette issue of 1 June 1900 and 1 June
1901, respectively.