Euro - elections 4th June

The County County elections were delayed until June to coincide with the European elections. The results  for Cherwell area were:

38,120 votes were cast. Turnout was 36.64%                          Votes               %

Conservative Party

14,877

39.03

United Kingdom Independence Party

6,307

16.55

Liberal Democrats

4,500

11.80

The Green Party

3,563

9.35

The Labour Party

3,502

9.19

British National Party

1,824 

4.78

Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"

537

1.41

Pro Democracy:  Libertas.eu

429

1.13

No2EU:  Yes to Democracy

319

0.84

Socialist Labour Party

309

0.81

United Kingdom First

239

0.63

The Peace Party - Non-Violence, Justice, Environment

171

0.45

The Roman Party. Ave!

114

0.3

Spoilt papers

388

1.02

 

The local Conservative MEP candidates with Rt Hon David Cameron MP

L to R: Nirj Deva, Theresa Coffey, Niina Kaariniemi, Sarah Richardson, David Cameron, James Elles, Tony Devenish, Richard Ashworth, Richard Robinson.

The elected Conservative candidates were:

1. Dan Hannan. Sitting MEP. Born 1971, Peru. Educated at Marlborough College and Oriel College Oxford. Journalist and former speechwriter. MEP for South East England since 1999. He sits as a Conservative MEP, but outside the EPP-ED, having been expelled in 2008 for criticising Hans-Gert Pottering. In 2009 a speech he gave in the European Parliament criticising Gordon Brown was briefly the most viewed clip on YouTube, having been linked to by several US right wing blogs..

Tim Hallchurch meeting Dan Hannan MEP

2.Richard Ashworth. Sitting MEP. Born 1947, Folkestone. Educated at Kings School Canterbury and Searle-Hayne College. Dairy farmer. Contested North Devon 1997. MEP for South East England since 1999.

3.Nirj Deva. Sitting MEP. Born 1948, Sri Lanka. Educated at Loughborough University. MP for Brentford and Isleworth 1992-1997. MEP for South East England since 1999. Appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Greater London in 1985.

With Tony Baldry MP and Nirj Deva MEP

4.James Elles. Sitting MEP. Born 1949, London. Educated at Edinburgh University. MEP for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1984-1989, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East 1994-1999, South East England since 1999.

With James Elles MEP who kindly helped me in Upper Heyford.

The above were elected - the Conservative candidates that were not elected were:

5.Therese Coffey. Born Wigan. Educated at Oxford University. Former finance director. Contested Wrexham 2005.

6.Sarah Richardson. Educated at Durham University. Freelance journalist. Westminster councillor. Contested East Midlands 2004 European Elections. Contested Leicester West 2005. Married to Damian Collins, Conservative PPC for Folkestone and Hythe.

7.Richard Robinson. Educated at Salford University. Investment consultant. Former Rochester councillor. Contested South East England 2004.

8.Tony Devenish. Westminster councillor. Contested Houghton and Washington East 2001.

9.Niina Kaariniemi OCC Conservative Political Assistant, multi-lingual (Finish, Swedish, Spanish English etc) Born in Finland but lives in Witney.

With Niina Kaariniemi whom I have worked with for the past four years.

10. Marc Brunel-Walker. Bracknell Forest councillor

The full list of MEPs representing South East England are now:

1. Dan. Hannan (Conservative)
2. N. Farage (UKIP)
3. Richard. Ashworth (Conservative)
4. S. Bowles (Liberal 'Democrat')
5. C. Lucas (Green Party)
6. Nirj N. Deva (Conservative)
7. M. Andreasen (UKIP)
8. James Elles (Conservative)
9. P. Skinner (Labour)
10. Bearder (Liberal 'Democrat')