UK Local Elections / European Parliamentary Elections

[Peter]

Many of the Green seats in Oxford (my town) were on a knife edge before the election, especially my ward, which had a Lib Dem majority of about 12 over the Greens, it didn't take much of a swing. They will probably go into coalition with the Lib Dems to control the council

Oxford Result:
Party - No of seats in 04 (Change)
Lab - 20 (-9)
Lib Dem - 18 (+3)
Green - 7 (+4)
Other - 10 (+6)
No Conservative Councillors.

[Peter]

But then the Labour Council in Oxford was pretty incompetent and got its marching orders. Lots of money wasted on city centre improvements that had to be improved within a few months didn't go down too well with the electorate. I was particularly amused that the Labour Mayor himself was defeated.

[Peter]

If you've been watching the 1 O'Clock news Al, you will probably be screaming because the BBC have pretty much called the next general election for the Tories.

[Peter]

UKIP consider themselves to be a "moderate" party.

Moderate compared to what? The BNP?

[Peter]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3799861.stm

The BNP beat the Greens in the Mayoral Race. Not good, not good at all

[Peter]

Darren Johnson was the Green Candidate
Julian Leppert was the BNP candidate

[Peter]

All first and second preferences for Mayor:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2004/london/html/front.stm

These votes aren't right though,; They give a 16% turnout.

[Peter]

All first and second preferences for Mayor:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2004/london/html/front.stm

Livingstone LAB 288925 34.3 110179 15.5 399104  
  Norris CON 257069 30.5 106002 14.9 363071  
  Hughes LD 127177 15.1 203143 28.6 N/A  
  Maloney UKIP 58319 6.9 93262 13.1 N/A  
  German RESP 36052 3.7 33444 4.1 N/A  
  Leppert BNP 29333 3.5 34723 4.9 N/A  
  Johnson GRN 26741 2.8 96810 11.9 N/A  
  Gidoomal CPA 22476 2.3 29925 3.7 N/A  
  Reid IWCA 4741 0.5 20295 2.5 N/A  
  Nagalingam IND 3843 0.4 11004 1.4 N/A

These numbers are far too low to be the actual results - looks the beeb ed up.

[Peter]

First Region to Declare - London;
Turnout 36.7%

Party	Votes	% Vote	MEPs Elected
Conservative	504,941	26.8%	3
Labour	466,584	24.7%	3
Liberal Democrats	288,790	15.3%	1
United Kingdom Indepence Party	232,633	12.3%	1
Greens	158,986	8.4%	1
Respect	91,175	4.8%	0
British National Party	76,152	4.0%	0
English Democrats Party	15,945	0.8%	0
Others	50,243	2.7%	0

Second Region - North East
Turnout - 40.6%

Party	Votes	% Vote	MEPs Elected
Conservative	144,969	18.6%	1
Labour	266,057	34.1%	1
Liberal Democrats	138,971	17.8%	1
United Kingdom Indepence Party	94,887	12.2%	0
Greens	37,247	4.8%	0
Respect	8,633	1.1%	0
British National Party	50,249	6.4%	0
Others	39,658	5.1%	0

3rd Region - Yorkshire & The Humber
Turnout 42.2%

Party	Votes	% Vote	MEPs Elected
Conservative	387,369	24.6%	2
Labour	413,213	26.3%	2
Liberal Democrats	244,607	15.5%	1
United Kingdom Indepence Party	228,666	14.5%	1
Greens	90,337	5.7%	0
Respect	29,865	1.9%	0
British National Party	126,538	8.0%	0
English Democrats Party	24,068	1.5%	0
Others	28,538	1.8%	0

[Peter]

Later results indicate trouble for the govt - only about 23% share of vote. Massive gains for UKIP, polling 18% and about 11 seats in the Parlt. Lib Dems seeing gain in vote but might lose a seat. Tories arent doing well, about 28% of vote, but could expect to gain the majority of the UKIP support in a general election.

I will publish results on my website as soon as I can.

[Peter]

I have six of the results up on my website:

UK results for EU 2004

And for comparison:
1999 results

Note that UK number of seats has gone from 87 to 78 in total.