Has anyone compared the membership of the conservative party with the size of the electorate before the 1832 Reform Act?

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Wikipedia says the electorate before 1832 was about 400,000, or around 3.3% of the population.
The Conservative party now has 124,000 members, or around 0.2% of the population.
I thought it'd be closer!

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