The Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK European elections, the pro-EU Lib Dems came second.
In the South East the Brexit Party scored 36.07% of the votes cast. The Conservatives and Labour suffered huge losses, Conservatives got less than 10% of the vote.
Results in the Wealden area
In the Wealden area, the turnout was above the national average at 41.65%. The Brexit Party won 21,312 votes, the Liberal Democrats came second with 11.080 votes, the Green Party came third with 7,339 votes, the Conservative Party came fourth with 5,593 votes. Change UK polled fifth with 2,047 votes and the Labour Party polled sixth with 1,681 votes. UKIP polled 1,086 votes.
Mr Farage was re-elected as a South East MEP.
Turnout in the South East was 39.36% – up from 35.4% in 2014.
The Conservative Party is left with just one MEP in South East England.
The Guardian this morning (May 27) has described “profound soul-searching at the top of both major parties”.
The Telegraph said that “in the EU elections results the Brexit Party dominates around the country” and that “Conservatives suffer worst ever election result” as “Labour erupts into civil war as Thornberry attacks Brexit” and that “Farage says European elections victory is just the beginning”
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to “take on” the Tories and Labour in a general election. He told BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “With a big, simple message – which is we’ve been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises – we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style.”
He added “The two party system now serves nothing but itself. I think they are an obstruction to the modernising of politics… and we are going to take them on.”
Overall, out of 64 MEPs declared so far, Mr Farage’s party has won 28, the Lib Dems 15, Labour 10, Greens seven, the Tories three and Plaid Cymru one.
Polling expert Sir John Curtice said the results showed just how polarised the country had become.
We face a prospect of a general election in the coming months in which a Nigel Farage fronted party will go head to head with the Conservative Party and Labour Party to form a Government in this country.
The times in which we live appear to have sent shockwaves through the two main parties in this country. We now live in unprecedented times.
Boris Johnson has wanted to be ‘world king’ since he was the age of five. Nigel Farage has said that “the two party system now serves nothing but itself”.
The European Election Night may turn out to be the worst election result in the history of the Conservative Party.
Voters appear to have taken Brexit revenge on both the main parties in this country.
South East England
Elected candidates are shown in bold. Number of votes per seat won, percentage, increase/decrease.
Brexit
Nigel Farage, Alexandra Lesley Phillips, Robert Andrew Rowland, Belinda Claire De Camborne Lucy
915,686 votes
36.07%
+36.07
Liberal Democrat
Catherine Bearder, Antony Hook, Judith Bunting
653,743 votes
25.75%
+17.71
Green
Alexandra Phillips
343,249 votes
13.52%
+4.46
Conservative
Daniel Hannan
60,277 votes
10.25%
-20.70
Labour
John Howarth
184,678 votes
7.27%
-7.39
Change UK
Richard Ashworth
105,832 votes
4.17%
+4.17
