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On Monday, the Party released its annual census, which drops every year on June 30.

It's not exactly a thrill ride, but we haven't parsed the data for our readers since 2021 (gasp!) so we thought it was worth digging in to the Party's evolving size and composition.

The headline: The Party passed ...