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Page last updated at Friday, 5 June, 2009, 13:55 GMT 14:55 UK
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Somerset

  CON GAIN FROM LD

SEATS AT A GLANCE
Conservative Conservative 35
Liberal Democrat Liberal Democrat 21
Labour Labour 2

SEATS IN DETAIL
Party Previous Seats +/- 2009
Conservative 24 11 35
Liberal Democrat 30 -9 21
Labour 4 -2 2

COUNCIL BACKGROUND
Type County
Portion up for election Whole
Boundary changes No
Seats up for election 58

PAST RESULTS
2005-: LD 2001-: NOC 1997-: LD 1993-: LD
1989-: CON 1985-: NOC 1981-: CON 1977-: CON
1973-: CON


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ELECTIONS 2009
EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS

MEP Seats

  Votes MEPs
Party % +/- % Total +/-
EPP 33.4 -1.4 264 -18
Socialists 23.2 -4.1 183 -26
Liberal 11.0 +1.6 84 +5
Green 7.4 +1.3 50 +9
Left 5.3 -0.6 34 -2
UEN 3.4 +1.6 28 +2
Ind/Dem 2.7 -1.8 21 -15
No Group 13.6 +3.4 72 +3.4
0 of 27 countries declared.
Full EU Parliament results
Full UK results by region

UK Total MEP Seats

Party Votes MEPs
% +/- % Total +/-
CON 27.7 1.0 *26 1
UKIP 16.5 0.3 13 1
LAB 15.7 -6.9 13 -5
LD 13.7 -1.2 11 1
GRN 8.6 2.4 2 0
BNP 6.2 1.3 2 2
SNP 2.1 0.7 2 0
PC 0.8 -0.1 1 0
OTH 8.5 2.4 0 0
SF – – 1 0
DUP – – 1 0
72 of 72 seats declared. Vote share figures exclude Northern Ireland as it has a separate electoral system to the rest of the UK
* Includes UCUNF MEP elected in Northern Ireland
Full UK results
KEY STORIES
Brown faces down Labour critics
Labour slumps to historic defeat
Voters steer Europe to the right
Tories hail 'European advances'
UKIP beats Labour to second place
Lib Dems 'hold their own' in poll
BNP secures two European seats
Tories top European poll in Wales
Salmond hails 'historic' Euro win
Sinn Fein tops poll in Euro count
Poll result 'frustrates' Greens
English Democrats votes doubled
Christians aim to build on vote
Crow's No2EU gain 153,000 votes
FEATURES AND BACKGROUND
BBC political editor Nick Robinson Nick Robinson
Follow the BBC Political Editor's assessment of developments
As it happened: Euro elections 09
The Full Story: Brown's reshuffle
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VIDEO REPORTS
Harriet Harman on the big screen on the Breakfast set Harman defends 'dismal' result

David Cameron Cameron 'delighted' with results

Nick Clegg Clegg: Results 'a good platform'

Nick Griffin Jubilant BNP hails 'great victory'

Nigel Farage UKIP: A hell of an achievement

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