Three by-elections last night of note, two involving the BNP and one UKIP
YORK, Hull Road
Lab 860
Con 296
LD 183
Green 84
Trevor Brown BNP 42 (2.9%)
York has never been a strong area for the BNP but well done Trevor for sticking in there.
ST HELENS Billinge and Seneley Green
Labour 1,388 (58.3%)
Conservative 624 (26.2%)
Liberal Democrat 229 (9.6%)
James Thomas Winstanley (British National Party) 141 (5.9%)
Well done James for giving the good folk of St Helens someone to vote for
Finally, one election involving UKIP
Watford Central
Liberal Democrats 696 (44.1%)
Labour 622 (39.4%)
Conservatives 158 (10.0%)
Green Party 79 (5.0%)
Dan Channing (UK Independence Party) 24 (1.5%)
Yet another abysmal result for UKIP who are beginning to make our recent results look good. Couple this with the continual no shows from the English Democrats, National Front and other minor Nationalist Parties it is becomming increasingly obvious that the BNP is the only party capable of putting up a half decent performance.
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ReplyDeleteyou say this but look at your general election and EU election results! Your looking at one local election. UKIP beat BNP last year with 13 MEP'S elected. BNP just 2. Also in the general election UKIP's vote nationaly was double that of the BNP. UKIP Watford is a newly formed branch and this was our first time standing in a local election in Watford. We are confident we will grow stronger in Watford. Though the result was low for a new branch we did better then I expected and I was proud to be the candidate.
ReplyDeleteDAN CHANNING
UKIP Watford
I have to take issue with your suggestion that UKIP did better than the BNP in the general election. Where the two parties went head to head the BNP won in more instances than UKIP. The reason UKIP got more votes is because they stood more candidates, simples.
ReplyDeleteUKIP will do well in the EU elections as they are the establishment's safety valve. UKIP are a dead duck between EU elections only for the media to start hyping them up a couple or months or so before before the election. At the same the BNP receive unprecedented amounts of negative press.
You may as well be a Euro Sceptic Tory than a UKIP member for all the difference it will make in the real world.