European Parliamentary elections 2019

The European Parliamentary Election results for Yorkshire and the Humber are in.

Wakefield district

Statement as to the result of the verification Wakefield local counting area:

No. of ballot papers verified: 74827

Turnout: 29.94%

I, Merran McRae, being the Local Returning Officer for the European Parliamentary Election in the Wakefield local counting area on 23 May 2019 do hereby give notice that the number of votes cast for each party at this election was as follows:

Party Number of Votes
Change UK – The Independent Group 1,548
Conservative and Unionist Party 4,267
English Democrats 670
Green Party 5,923
Labour Party 12,661
Liberal Democrats 7,472
The Brexit Party 33,173
The Yorkshire Party 4,381
UK Independence Party (UKIP) 4,317

Ballot papers were rejected as follows:

Rejected ballot papers Number rejected
A. Does not bear the official mark 1
B. Voting for more than one party 85
C. Writing or mark by which the voter can be identified 15
D. Unmarked or void for uncertainty 310
The total number of rejected ballot papers was: 411

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