EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

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Le Pen speaking...

She can't be. Speaking requires thought.

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Rumours are that UKIP and Labour are running neck and neck...in Wales.

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Lib Dems top the poll in Orkney

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Last seat skuffle in Scotland. Tories actually doing well here so far.

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How many authorities are there to count in the UK? BBC says 205 have been counted. Are they the same as parliamentary constituencies?

There 426 of them. They aren't the same, in most cases, as the constituencies but you can spot patterns of voting fairly easily.

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Those 'backwards' islands produce the most wondrous cloth known to man, so don't be rude.

That cloth being?

Harris Tweed. And it is a fine cloth.

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Vote dump from Glasgow. On the sub council level, the SNP topped the poll in Southside and in Kelvin and Labour in the other seats.

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Twitter is good for two things. Getting results and people not 'getting' the results

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That's Scotland in now bar the Western Isles

SNP 28.9
LAB 25.9
CON 17.2
UKIP 10.4
GRN 8.1

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Lowest Labour increase so far (just 5%), but then a Scot was leader in 2009.

Tories are actually up too which is fun.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Imagine Nigel Farage and Dan Hannan being your representative.

They should just make out.

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UK media a bit slow on publishing nice flashy maps of the local authority level results. Don't make us do the work