Result worse than Labour feared
Updated on 08 June 2009
The European elections produce the Labour party’s worst nationwide poll results in almost 100 years.
Not since the 1910 general election has the party taken less than 20 per cent of the vote, until last night's humiliating European parliamentary results.
They have been beaten into third place by the Conservatives and the UK Independence Party, and the collapse in the Labour vote has allowed the far-right British National Party to take two seats.
The UK-wide results so far show that the Conservatives polled the most votes with 28.6 per cent, Ukip followed with 17.4 per cent and Labour slumped to third place with just 15.3 per cent.
The Liberal Democrats secured 13.9 per cent, the Greens were in fifth place with 8.7 per cent and in sixth place with 6.5 per cent was the BNP.
In 63 of the 69 results declared, the Tories gained an extra seat, as did Ukip, but Labour lost five seats, providing an extra seat for the Liberal Democrats.
The Green party kept its two seats and the BNP gained two.
