Lincolnshire

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Friday, 5 June 2009, 13:34

Just been browsing through the Lincolnshire results and the BNP did surprisingly badly. From a quick back of the envelope calculation the BNP averaged 12% of the vote in the 20 wards they contested (out of a possible 77). Given that the trend is that the BNP will get less in the European Elections and that they didn't contest several seats this does not bode well for their chances of an East Midlands Euro seat, where they would need approximately 13% across the region.

The BNP contested three of Boston's seven seats and averaged 14.2%. In the 2004 European Election UKIP polled 37.6% and the BNP 8.8% across the entire borough so the BNP was hoping to eat into the UKIP/anti-establishment vote but this clearly hasn't happened.

The same appears to have happened across the region.