EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

[afleitch]

Labour only 10,000 votes ahead of the Tories across the whole of the UK. London is still to declare and it's safe to say that will probably widen significantly! It is better for the Tories than the polls were suggesting which is of some comfort.

[Joe Republic]

Anyone care to explain the hilarious Gibraltar result?

... which was?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I suspect Labour might have done somewhat better had the Party actually run a campaign that extended beyond a freepost leaflet. This isn't much of an exaggeration, alas. European Elections don't matter (of course) but that's not an excuse, as they have an impact on local elections held on the same day (and they do matter). A certain D.A. ought to be fired.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

North West region has the biggest Labour increase in so far (13%). Anyway. No more Nick Griffin MEP!

[afleitch]

Anyone care to explain the hilarious Gibraltar result?

... which was?

Lib Dems got 66% of the vote. So ''Land's End South' might still return an MP next year

[Filuwaúrdjan]

West Midlands is 3 Kipper/2 Labour/2 Tory

[afleitch]

I suspect Labour might have done somewhat better had the Party actually run a campaign that extended beyond a freepost leaflet. This isn't much of an exaggeration, alas. European Elections don't matter (of course) but that's not an excuse, as they have an impact on local elections held on the same day (and they do matter). A certain D.A. ought to be fired.

Douglas Alexander is a seasoned professional behind Labour's successful 2007 and 2011 Holyrood campaigns. I hope they retain him!

The SNP never used freepost at all in most areas. I actually thought it might have pushed them into second but their GOTV must have been good.

[You kip if you want to...]

Imagine Nigel Farage and Dan Hannan being your representative.

[afleitch]

Imagine Nigel Farage and Dan Hannan being your representative.

They should just make out.

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

That's all the UK regions in except for London (whatever is happening there), Scotland (which will declare in the morning) and Northern Ireland (which will start counting in the morning).

[Lief 🗽]

Wow, that Italian result is beautiful!

[Keystone Phil]

Wow, that Italian result is beautiful!

Going to be a good year for Italian Soccer.

[Lief 🗽]

Some London results finally coming in! Looks like the good people of London are rejecting all this UKIP nonsense.

[Antonio the Sixth]

After decades of darkness, Italy is back on the right track.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Labour change on 2009 for regions fully counted:

North West +13.4
North East +11.5
Yorkshire & Humber +10.5
West Midlands +9.7
East Midlands +8.1
Wales +7.8
Eastern +6.8
South East +6.4
South West +6.1
Scotland +5.1

[You kip if you want to...]

The Tory right making hints that they want some kind of Tory-UKIP pact are the same people who were most against AV. Funny.

[joevsimp]

The Tory right making hints that they want some kind of Tory-UKIP pact are the same people who were most against AV. Funny.

that is exactly the reason that australia introduced AV/IRV, to prevent Labour winning on a split Liberal/National vote(r were they Nationalist and Country Party back then?)

[Diouf]

Partito Democratico could end up being the biggest national party delegation in the EP. The current results suggest that they would get 34 seats!. The CDU/CSU got 35, but "only" 29 for CDU alone, which must be the biggest delegation so far. So if the numbers hold up, PD should be able to get more than those 29.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Partito Democratico could end up being the biggest national party delegation in the EP. The current results suggest that they would get 34 seats!. The CDU/CSU got 35, but "only" 29 for CDU alone, which must be the biggest delegation so far. So if the numbers hold up, PD should be able to get more than those 29.

The numbers will hold up. At this point, 40% is assured.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I made a map of the current results - reflects leading EU Party grouping by country

[Serenity Now]

Imagine Nigel Farage and Dan Hannan being your representative.

Living in the South East region I don't have to imagine that.  It's like being forced into a Farage à trois..*

*Also, this pun doesn't work outside of the South East either..

[Filuwaúrdjan]

But then you aren't really 'represented' by any of these people are you? That's part of the problem.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

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

London has finally declared: Lab 4 C 2 UKIP 1 Grn 1.

[Zanas]

I've just spent way too much of my normally sleeping time to calculate this entirely useless figure for you : all it would have taken for LibDem to be wiped out of the EP completely would be 67 more Ukip votes and 27934 more Tory votes in the South-East constituency, all things equal.

So close !