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Saturday, March 20, 2004 

Calne Result (correction)

Thanks to Barbara Booker for the following correction, comment and detailed result with BNP reaction. However one looks at it, this is a shocking self-contrived setback for UKIP, even more astounding coming after all the warnings given over the past year regarding the BNP and no official explanation having been offered, as far as I am aware, for their policies either in the North East, Yorkshire and N. Lincs, the South East where an ex-UKIP member is apparently BNP's lead candidate nor now with this shambles in the South West! Herewith the comment received regarding the post below:-

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Sorry to nit-pick but the BNP seem to think they came third in Calne, not second. Below is the report from their website.

Surely the important thing is that they gained a higher percentage than at the last local elections, which UKIP might have prevented had they stood.

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18.5% in Wiltshire . . AND WE BEAT LABOUR!
Clive Wakley reporting
CONGRATULATIONS to Robert Baggs the BNP's candidate in the Abberd Ward by-election for Calne Town Council in North Wiltshire after polling 18.5% and pushing the Labour Party candidate into 4th place.

Last May, Robert polled a very encouraging 118 votes which amounted to nearly 18% of the vote, but this contest offered three vacant seats in the ward so Robert's "core" first choice votes would have been boosted by voters giving him their second and third choice votes to achieve the impressive result.

This time round there was only one vacancy, so there were no 'soft second choice' votes for the BNP. But not only did Robert beat the Labour Party candidate, he quite clearly substantially improved on the party's standing in the town in terms of the percentage of Calne residents who regard the BNP as their party of first choice.
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posted by Martin |10:53 AM
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