Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Scottish results of European Elections


I posted up the Edinburgh results yesterday; so for completeness, here are the overall results for the whole of Scotland - the Council News Release can be found here and I'll simply re-produce the main text below:

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The European Election results for Scotland have been announced at the City Chambers

The number of votes cast for each party and the individual candidates are:

BRITAIN FIRST, 13,639 (1.0%)
BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY, 10,216 (0.8%)
CONSERVATIVE PARTY, 231,330 (17.2%)
LABOUR PARTY, 348,219 (25.9%)
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, 95,319 (7.1%)
NO2EU, 6,418 (0.5%)
SCOTTISH GREEN PARTY, 108,305 (8.0%)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY (SNP), 389,503 (28.9%)
UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY (UKIP), 140,534 (10.4%)

Rejected papers 2,184 (0.2%)
Total votes cast 1,345,667
Electorate 4,016,735
Turnout 33.5%

The following candidates have been duly elected to serve in the European Parliament as members for the Scottish region:

1 IAN HUDGHTON, SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY (SNP)
2 DAVID MARTIN, LABOUR PARTY
3 IAN DUNCAN, CONSERVATIVE PARTY
4 ALYN SMITH, SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY (SNP)
5 CATHERINE STIHLER, LABOUR PARTY
6 DAVID COBURN, UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY (UKIP)

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If interested, there is more detail available here, and the links therein.

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