EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

[Lief 🗽]

Where are the UKIP votes coming from?  The Conservatives don't appear to be losing more than 2-3%, Labour gaining a few points (probably from LD), Lib Dems tanking - but those votes aren't going to UKIP.  BNP appears to be down and clearly those votes are going to UKIP, but where else are they coming from?

Lib Dem voters going to Labour and Tories are masking the Labour and Tory voters going to UKIP?

[Cassius]

Where are the UKIP votes coming from?  The Conservatives don't appear to be losing more than 2-3%, Labour gaining a few points (probably from LD), Lib Dems tanking - but those votes aren't going to UKIP.  BNP appears to be down and clearly those votes are going to UKIP, but where else are they coming from?

Well, I'd imagine the Tories have won a few tactical anti-UKIP votes, so the percentage defecting to UKIP is probably more than 2-3 percent.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Jobbik wins 2nd place in Hungary.

[afleitch]

Last seat skuffle in Scotland. Tories actually doing well here so far.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

UKIP voters in Euro elections come from literally all over the place. Have done since 2004.

Remember that voter turnover in Euro elections is extremely high.

[You kip if you want to...]

More than one person has asked me recently if Kilroy was standing.

[EPG]

A few people voted Lib Dem because they were Not Government Against All. Now that that's UKIP, they will shift (notably in the South West, I think, and it's a phenomenon that already existed to some extent at Europe).

[rob in cal]

   According to the BBC site vote count nothing has come from London yet. I wonder what kind of a massive win Labour will get out of London to overtake UKIP's lead.

[Lief 🗽]

How many authorities are there to count in the UK? BBC says 205 have been counted. Are they the same as parliamentary constituencies?

[afleitch]

How many authorities are there to count in the UK? BBC says 205 have been counted. Are they the same as parliamentary constituencies?

There 426 of them. They aren't the same, in most cases, as the constituencies but you can spot patterns of voting fairly easily.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

East Midlands declared: 2 UKIP 2 C 1 Lab.

[Lief 🗽]

BBC projects Wales as 1 Con, 1 Lab, 1 UKIP, 1 Plaid.

[MaxQue]

How many authorities are there to count in the UK? BBC says 205 have been counted. Are they the same as parliamentary constituencies?

No, they use local authorities. 326 in England, 32 in Scotland, 22 in Wales, 11 or 26 in NI (depends if they use previous or next authorities). At least one will be missing tonight, as there is some backwards religious islands in Scotland refusing to count on Sunday, since it's a day for God, if I remember well.

[Kushahontas]

why is everyone being so awkward on BBC? The returning officer, Emily Maitlis, now this dude spinning for LD...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Those 'backwards' islands produce the most wondrous cloth known to man, so don't be rude.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

How many authorities are there to count in the UK? BBC says 205 have been counted. Are they the same as parliamentary constituencies?

No, they use local authorities. 326 in England, 32 in Scotland, 22 in Wales, 11 or 26 in NI (depends if they use previous or next authorities). At least one will be missing tonight, as there is some backwards religious islands in Scotland refusing to count on Sunday, since it's a day for God, if I remember well.

Northern Ireland has a single count under the jurisdiction of the Chief Electoral Officer, who is responsible for everything election-related in the province.

[windjammer]

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/europeennes/italie-le-parti-democrate-de-matteo-renzi-33-devance-les-listes-de-beppe-grillo-26-5-et-silvio-berlusconi-18_609311.html

Great news . The worst rightwing party in Europe (after Fiedesz) just gets 18%

[Lief 🗽]

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/europeennes/italie-le-parti-democrate-de-matteo-renzi-33-devance-les-listes-de-beppe-grillo-26-5-et-silvio-berlusconi-18_609311.html

Great news . The worst rightwing party in Europe (after Fiedesz) just gets 18%

Yes, the Italian results are very nice!

[The Lord Marbury]

Current results with 5833 of 5837 districts counted in Sweden:

Social Democrats: 24,4% (±0) - 6 seats (±0)
Green: 15,3% (+4,3) - 3 seats (+1)
Moderate: 13,6% (-5,2) - 3 seats (-1)
Liberal People's: 10,0% (-3,6) - 2 seats (-1)
Sweden Democrats: 9,7% (+4,9) - 2 seats (+2)
Centre: 6,5% (+1,0) - 1 seat (±0)
Left: 6,3% (+0,7) -  1 seat (±0)
Christian Democrats: 6,0% (+1,2) - 1 seat (±0)
Feminist Initiative: 5,3% (+3,1) -  1 seat (+1)
Pirate: 2,2% (-4,9) - 0 seats (-2)

Certainly surprising to see the Moderates drop so hard, the polls had hinted at a decline for the past weeks but not to this degree.

[Kushahontas]

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

[MaxQue]

Those 'backwards' islands produce the most wondrous cloth known to man, so don't be rude.

That cloth being?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Those 'backwards' islands produce the most wondrous cloth known to man, so don't be rude.

That cloth being?

Harris Tweed

[afleitch]

Those 'backwards' islands produce the most wondrous cloth known to man, so don't be rude.

That cloth being?

Harris Tweed. And it is a fine cloth.

[Lief 🗽]

Looks like Lib Dems will have zero seats in the Southwest.

[windjammer]

Looks like Lib Dems will have zero seats in the Southwest.

Good newss, Lib Dems are probably bigger traitors to progressivism than Cuomo!