update: For the number crunchers among you, The Guardian has more than enough spread sheet info on the Green's performance across Europe and, as ever, The Daily (Maybe) has a 'considered analysis'.
And then to cap a crap night of Euro results, Ricky Knight failed to get a seat in the South West. The vote breakdown was:
Conservative 468,742
UKIP 341,845
Liberal Democrat 255,253
GREEN 144,179
Labour 118,716
BNP 60,889
Pensioners 37,785
English Democrat 25,313
Christians 21,329
Mebyon Kernow 14,922
Socialist Labour 10,033
Misc 39,702 (6 other groups mostly around 7,000)
1st seat Conservative with 468,742
2nd seat UKIP with 341,845
3rd seat LD with 255,253
4th seat Conservative with 234,371
5th seat UKIP with 170,923
6th seat Conservative with 156,248
Greens 12,070 votes short of a seat
I got a note from the Greens this morning telling me: " Spread across 49 parliamentary constituencies that is 247 votes short per constituency. Each constituency is about 60,000 electors, typically divided into 20 wards of about 3,000 for local elections. So in your ward we needed an extra 12 votes and probably 1,800 people in your ward didn't bother to vote."
Thanks. As someone who has spent the last six weeks tramping the streets leafleting with not an awful lot of back-up (although Ricky did come over for the Box Revels and it was great to see him), this information is as welcome as bucket of cold sick.
Is there a plus? Of course. The Green vote went from 2% to 9% in the SW. I also think that where turnout was higher than average, as in SW, the BNP did less well. Certainly they performed poorly in local elections here. Now, will the BNP sit with the Conservative MEPs in the new far right voting bloc?
Report on the SW vote in The Times.
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