This is where I get a touch of the Mr. Rowley’s





Salford 27.54% turnout

=redLab: 10,800

=blueCons: 9,819

=indigoUKIP: 7,252

=orangeLibDm: 5,498

=darkblueBNP: 4,818

=greenGreen: 3,210

=oliveOthers: 4,510



North West 31.90% turnout

=blueCons: 423,174

=redLab: 336,831

=indigoUKIP: 261,740

=orangeLibDm: 235,639

=darkblueBNP: 132,094

=greenGreen: 127,133

=oliveOthers: 135,214



MEPs

=blueRobert Atkins – Conservative

=orangeChris Davies – Liberal Democrat

=blueJacqueline Foster – Conservative

=darkblueNick Griffin – British National Party

=blueSaj Karim– Conservative

=redArlene McCarthy – Labour

=indigoPaul Nuttall – UKIP

=redBrian Simpson – Labour



[url=http://www.northwestvotes.gov.uk/downloads/download/12/north_west_regional_results_breakdownFull results[/url

If someone shoots Nick Griffin, does his seat go to another party?

How can UKIP take the money for being MEPs when they totally disagree with the European Union?

Funny, I've been thinking the same thing. Are they now going to attempt to pull us out of the EU and give up the extra cash and cushy 'job' they now find themselves in? Doubtful.

Aside from the obvious issues with this idiot's party, what credentials does a bloke from Barnet, living in Powys, educated in Suffolk and Cambridge and selected to be a parliamentary candidate for Thurrock in Essex have to represent the North West of England?

Thats democracy for you im afraid. How ironic that in the 65th anniversary year of the Normandy landings in which brave, selfless and heroic men died to keep the freedom we now have some folk see fit to elect BNP representatives..shame on you all.

Couldn't agree more. Sad day for Britain and especially shaming that the NW is involved

Truly terrible. Ashamed of those who voted for hateful party.

As posted on the sin bin...

Their arguement is that they will 'bring it down from the inside'



which is a load of rubbish. As they have already had MEP's and it hasnt happened yet. Just a way for them to look busy while raking in loads of cash!

Hugely curious election results for those who like stats...the Tory vote didnt really increase much, the labour vote could have been worse I think, UKIP was only up by about 1 pp while the BNP share wasn't markedly up (the actual number who voted BNP in the NW was lower than last time!) while the lib-dems saw a marginal drop. The big winners were the Greens!



BNP targetted the Northwest (and why Nick Griffin stood here) because the % they would need to get a seat is lower here than in other regions beacsue we have the largest population of any region (excluding London).



BNP got 8.0% of the vote in the NW and it got them a seat -

they actually got higher shares of the vote in the North East (8.9%), the West Mids (8.6%), the East Mids (8.7%), and Yorkshire and Humber (9.8%). Of course the figure in Y&H got them a seat there too.



the real question is who would the non-voters have voted for given that turn-out was down? did the traditional labour vote just not turn out or was there a real shift? Gives every party stratgic nightmares as a replication of the European vote in a general election would not have given the Tories a majority in parliament! expect them to lurch to being more anti-EU to ensure they snare the UKIP vote at general election time...while Labour must be praying that UKIP actively contest marginal seats next year to split the Tory vote!

Here, here !!!!!

In terms of number of votes it was an unusual election. Labour down 1.3million votes, Tories down 200,000 votes, LibDems down 350,000 votes. Which suggests that there is still no real appetite for Cameron and his slick pr men.



BNP vote only went up 80,000 which is tiny really, especially given the amount of coverage they had beforehand and the claims they make about popularity. Others like socialist labour and no2eu would have picked up some old labour voters.



We're actually looking at about 1million Labour voters who simply didn't turn out. If they can convince them to do so at a general election and things could be very different.

Isn't that what they died for though? Our freedom? Freedom to choose who we want to vote for in a democratic election?



Before anyone says anything i didn't vote BNP!