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SNP membership has hit six figures just weeks before the general election, ex-leader Alex Salmond confirmed yesterday.
“The SNP membership has just reached 100,000 in Scotland this weekend,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr.
The boost means the party goes into its conference in Glasgow next weekend with “the strongest pre-election support” in its history.
Thousands have joined the party following the No vote in the last September’s Scottish independence referendum.
The SNP previously described the upsurge as the “incredible legacy of democratic engagement from the referendum.”
Party managers are said to be preparing for 3,000 delegates at the conference, a 150 per cent increase on the numbers at last year’s event.
The party is also promising the largest amount of doorstep activity ever undertaken by party activists.
Recent polling has suggested the SNP could win more than 50 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats.
