EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

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Yorkshire and the Humber: UKIP 3, LAB 2, CON 1

at UKIP topping the poll.

Results by authority available in this PDF.

UKIP carried both N Lincs and NE Lincs, Rotherham, Doncaster, Wakefield, Calderdale, York, the East Riding unitary, Hull, Selby and Scarborough & Whitby.  Some of these (Donny, York, Calderdale) were close, others (especially the two Lincs districts) were not.

Labour carried Sheffield, Barnsley (just), Kirklees, Leeds and Bradford.  Bradford was the one place which seemed noticeably good for Labour.

The Tories carried Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire and Ryedale.

Full results from Sheffield:
Lab 47571 (33.6%)
UKIP 39139 (27.6%)
Green 17288 (12.2%)
Con 15329 (10.8%)
Lib Dem 14299 (10.2%)
An Independence From Europe 2397 (1.7%)
BNP 2214 (1.6%)
Yorkshire First 1506 (1.1%)
Eng Dem 1309 (0.9%)
No2EU 452 (0.3%)

Compared with the local elections on the same day, Labour were down 2.9 percentage points, UKIP up 4.7, the Greens down 0.2, the Tories up 3.7 and the Lib Dems down 7.6.  No2EU got less than a fifth of TUSC's local election vote.

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There seems to be some disagreement within the Tories about whether to let AfD into the ECR group.  Some of the MEPs (Daniel Hannan and Nirj Deva have been mentioned) would like to let them in, but Cameron still doesn't want them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27685195

To me Cameron's idea of still thinking of the CDU as the Tories' "sister party" while also insisting on not being in the EPP seems like wanting to have his cake and eat it.

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I find it a little surprising that the Tories are happy with the Danish People's Party and the (True) Finns; I'd thought those parties were both regarded as not quite respectable enough for mainstream parties to associate with.  What do our more Conservative-sympathetic posters think?

Of course, in the case of the Danish party, I may be mixing them up a bit with their counterparts in Borgen.

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I thought the party's approved English translation of their Finnish name now left out the "True", possibly because of what Antonio said.  Hence the ().

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Ok, Greens have now organized them and it is conflicting evidence, whether N-VA is on the boat (it has been claimed it will sit with ALDE). Anyhow, the Northern Ireland will be presented by two members in GUE/NGL group, making it the most leftwing constituency in Europe.

You mean Midlands--North-West in Ireland, with one Shinner and Luke 'Ming' Flanagan. Northern Ireland has one GUE/NGL, one ECR and presumably one Non Inscrit, as no-one seems to be talking about the DUP going anywhere.

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Re Ireland, is there an obvious reason why the establishment parties did noticeably better in the South constituency?

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Re Ireland, is there an obvious reason why the establishment parties did noticeably better in the South constituency?

There's no inherent sociological reason. The proximate cause was the strength of Crowley, the main Fianna Fáil candidate, and the weakness of the independents. It's possible that the absence of Leinster candidates helped Fine Gael a little, as the only party to field one.

Thanks, that make sense.

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To be fair, you could say similar things about many members of the other groups, starting with Fianna Fáil and, say, D66.

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Things developed quite quickly it seems...

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http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0623/625874-fianna-fail-europe/

Crowley has had the FF whip removed over this move.