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 |