The NEC decided that full members would not be able to vote if they had not had at least six months’ continuous membership up to 12 July.
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Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) must have the power to determine who is eligible to vote in a leadership election, depending on the circumstances surrounding the poll, the court of appeal has heard.
Numerous members affected are believed to back leader Jeremy Corbyn and the five who brought the initial legal challenge to the High Court have said they will not seek to overturn the appeal court’s decision in the Supreme Court.
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He said: “It is crucial to the Labour Party that our governing body has the authority to debate, decide and implement the procedures, timetable and voting eligibility for our internal elections and selections”.
The legal challenge was brought by five new members: Christine Evangelou, Rev Edward Leir, Hannah Fordham, Chris Granger and FM, a teenage member, who used crowdfunding for their costs.
The Party faithful queued to get into St Pancras Church to hear Labour MP Kate Green make the case for Welshman Owen Smith, who now lags way behind Mr Corbyn in the opinion polls.
A major Jewish donor to Britain’s Labour Party has compared supporters of party head Jeremy Corbyn to Nazi storm troopers.
A spokesman for Corbyn’s campaign said the court had made the “wrong decision, both legally and democratically”.
He added, “There are Trots that have come back to the party, and they certainly don’t have the best interests of the Labour party at heart”.
Corbyn, who would have been the likely beneficiary of most of those 130,000 extra votes, has called for the rules to be changed to ensure all members can vote in the future.
Councillor Theo Dennison, chairman of the Brentford and Isleworth CLP, said 1,946 constituency party members were invited to vote on Wednesday in what he described as a “good-humoured” meeting.
Jeremy Corbyn took the political world by surprise when he romped to victory in last year’s Labour leadership contest, having begun as a rank outsider.
The result of the Labour leadership election between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith is expected September 24 at a special conference in Liverpool.
“This is a “make it up as you go along” rule”. But the Judges have denied permission for the claimants to take the case to the Supreme Court.
The Labour leader said an NES will form a key plank of his programme for government as he enshrined free education for all as official party policy, subject to the approval of its conference.
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They won the first stage at the High Court on Monday.
