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UK: Labour vote plummets in first results, BNP leader jostled at count

Mon, Jun 08 2009 00:07 CET byGabriel Hershman 1117 Views
UK: Labour vote plummets in first results, BNP leader jostled at count

UK prime minister and Labour Party leader Gordon Brown.

Early election results indicate that Labour has won the most votes in the North-East of England at the European Elections, but its share of the vote is down nine per cent on 2004.

If the nine per cent decline in votes is repeated elsewhere, it will add to the pressure on Gordon Brown who has vowed to stay in office despite calls to go.

On the basis of the limited number of council declarations so far, the Conservative vote will be down a little, UKIP will be up, Labour will slip into third place and may be struggling to hold that against the Lib Dems whose vote seems to be holding up.

In the 2004 European elections the Conservatives won 26.7 per cent of votes, Labour 22.6 per cent, UKIP 16.1 per cent, the Lib Dems 14.9 per cent, the Greens 6.3 per cent and the BNP 4.9 per cent. Meanwhile, BNP leader Nick Griffin was briefly prevented from from attending tonight's European election count in Manchester by protesters. Placards waving anti-BNP demonstrators surrounded a number of cars, one of which was thought to be carrying Griffin, when they arrived at Manchester Town Hall. Griffin later entered via a rear door.

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