East of England results

Monday, 08, Jun 2009 01:14

East of England (Seven MEPs)

Party	Percentage of vote	Number of votes	MEPs
Conservative	500,031	31.2 (+0.4)	3
Ukip	313,921	19.6 (unchanged)	2
Lib Dems	13.8 (-0.2)	221,325	1
Labour	10.5 (-5.8)	167,833	1
Green	8.8 (+3.2)	141,016	0
BNP	6.1 (+1.7)	97,013	0
UK First	2.4 (+2.4)	38,185	0
English Dems	2.0 (+0.2)	32,211	0
Christian party	1.5 (+1.5)	24,646	0
No2EU	0.9 (+0.9)	13,939	0
Socialist Labour	0.8 (+0.8)	13,599	0
Animals Count	0.8 (+0.8)	13,201	0
Libertaus.eu	0.6 (+0.6)	9,940	0
Independent (Peter Rigby)	0.6 (+0.6)	9,916	0
Jury Team	0.4 (+0.4)	6,354	0

Analysis

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