Friday 5 June 2009

EURO-ELECTIONS PROGRESS REPORT

Wigan Borough:


Total electorate – 236,091

Actual turnout – 63,760


= 27%


Turnout comprised :


Main ballot – 42,378

Postal vote - 21,382


Those are actual hard figures.


The 43 full ballot boxes are now behind two locked doors in the deeds room at the town hall. They’ll be returned to Robin Park on Sunday evening for the actual party-by-party count.


Every box has a BNP numbered seal on it, and I have a record of which numbered box has which numbered seal.


I can’t tell you how any of the parties did because all the work so far with the ballot papers has been done with the papers face down. There will be no exit polls from anyone because the Germans don’t hold their elections until Sunday. So all we can do is wait and see. Every member of the European Union (27 countries) is holding Euro-elections this weekend. We and Holland have already done so. Apparently Geert Wilders’s PVV has done very well and will gain four MEPs. The Dutch haven’t been such sticklers for the rules as we are, and some exit polls have been reported there.


We’ll be able to tell you late Sunday night/early Monday morning how we have done here in Wigan, but I think it’ll be late in the day on Monday before anyone can give any regional or nationwide results.


Morg

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yaz