Europe: Hyndburn European Election 2014 results

The results of the European election in Hyndburn was revealed on Sunday 25th May 2014 at 10.30pm and the votes cast were as follows:

UKIP - 7694
Labour - 7173
Conservative - 4054
BNP - 787
Green - 590
Liberal Democrats - 360

There were also a number of votes cast for smaller parties. In Hyndburn, 22,269 residents voted with a turnout of 37.32% and 183 spoiled ballot papers.

Leader of HBC, Cllr Miles Parkinson and Cabinet member for Finance, Cllr Joan Smith, attended the count and recorded the results.

All the votes in the North West region were tallied up and the eight MEPs were selected from the number of votes that they received proportionately. The make-up for the North West now looks like this:

1. Theresa Mary Griffin (Lab)
2. Paul Andrew Nuttall (UKIP)
3. Jacqueline Foster (Con)
4. Mohammed Afzal Khan (Lab)
5. Louise Bours (UKIP)
6. Julie Carolyn Ward (Lab)
7. Sajjad Karim (Con)
8. Steven Marcus Woolfe (UKIP)

Julie Ward MEP was the Labour representative in the Hyndburn election and recently visited the area ahead of voting day. She retains her seat and is currently campaigning to abolish the European parliament buildings in Strasbourg to focus on Brussels and save money.