Monday, 8th June 2009

UKIP gained 5 councillors in the West Midlands , in the recent county council elections held on June the 4th. 4 where elected to Staffordshire county council and 1 to Newcastle-Under-Lyme Borough Council .

A handful of results from the 594 seats contested by UKIP are still to come in but 57 of the party's candidates, so far, won more than 25% of their seat's total vote. Overall, UKIP took a total of around 350,000 votes at the council elections.

In the 480 seats where both UKIP and Labour contested elections, UKIP took more than 80,000 votes than Labour. And the party also beat the BNP and the Green Party in the majority of seats where they were head-to-head.

The average UKIP vote share in seats where a party candidate stood was almost 16%.

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