Meltdown in Europe

RESULTS (EXCLUDING NORTHERN IRELAND)
SEATS: 72*TURNOUT: 14,032,420ELECTORATE: 40,300,527
Votes MEPs
Party Total % Total +/-
Conservative 4,012,600 28.6
(+1.2) 24 +1
UK Independence Party 2,440,438 17.4
(+0.5) 13 +1
Labour 2,151,907 15.3
(-7.0) 11 -5
Liberal Democrats 1,953,575 13.9
(-1.1) 10 +1
Green Party 1,223,303 8.7
(+2.5) 2 0
British National Party 916,424 6.5
(+1.4) 2 +2
Plaid Cymru 126,702 0.9
(-0.1) 1 0
English Democrat 279,801 2.0
(+1.1) 0 0
Christian Party-Christian Peoples Alliance 232,755 1.7
(+1.7) 0 0
Socialist Labour Party 150,980 1.1
(+1.1) 0 0
No2EU 143,543 1.0
(+1.0) 0 0
United Kingdom First 74,007 0.5
(+0.5) 0 0
Libertas 73,544 0.5
(+0.5) 0 0
Jury Team 72,312 0.5
(+0.5) 0 0
Independent - Jan Jananayagam 50,014 0.4
(+0.4) 0 0
Pensioners Party 37,785 0.3
(+0.1) 0 0
Mebyon Kernow 14,922 0.1
(+0.1) 0 0
Animals Count 13,201 0.1
(+0.1) 0 0
Independent - Peter Rigby 9,916 0.1
(+0.1) 0 0
The Peace Party 9,534 0.1
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Katie Hopkins 8,971 0.1
(+0.1) 0 0
Fair Play Fair Trade Party 7,151 0.1
(+0.1) 0 0
The Roman Party 5,450 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Steven Cheung 4,918 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Socialist Party of Great Britain 4,050 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Francis Apaloo 3,621 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Yes 2 Europe 3,384 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Sohale Rahman 3,248 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Gene Alcantara 1,972 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Haroon Saad 1,603 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Wai D 789 0.0
(+0.0) 0 0
Independent - Duncan Robertson 0 0
0 0
Scottish National Party 2 0
0 0
Scottish Socialist Party 0 0
0 063 of 69 seats declared.
Seat change is adjusted to allow a direct comparison with the results from the 2004 election
*Includes Northern Ireland.


Press association

The (Labour) party was beaten into third place by the UK Independence Party (Ukip) in the popular vote while the far right British National Party achieved a major breakthrough gaining their first Euro seats.

The scale of the defeat could be the catalyst for rebel Labour backbenchers manoeuvring to oust Mr Brown to come out into the open and launch a direct leadership challenge.

With the all the results in for England and Wales, Labour were on course to gain just 16% of the vote - a point behind Ukip on 17% and 11 points behind the Tories on 27%, according to a BBC projection.

Labour lost five seats to leave them with just 11, two fewer than Ukip with 13 and 13 behind the Conservative tally of 24.

Comment:
The BNP gained two seats. In Wales, Plaid Cymru's Jill Evans regained her seat.
The SNP won two seats. Sinn Fein won a seat and topped the poll in the north of Ireland.
Plaid Cymru's vote also fell from the 2004 result and this reflected the fact that it is still in coalition with Labour in the Assembly.

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