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The Brexit party, led by Nigel Farage, received 5,248,533 votes (out of 17,199,701 cast) in the European parliament elections, securing 29 seats — more than twice the seats won by the Conservatives (in fifth place, down from 19 seats in 2014 to four now) and Labour (down from 20 seats to ten) put together. The Liberal Democrats, with 3,367,284 votes, pushed Labour into third place by winning 16 seats (up from one). The Greens won seven seats (up from three). The Yorkshire party secured more votes than the right-wing English Democrats did in the whole country. The Animal Welfare party received more votes than the Women’s Equality party. Ukip won no seat and nor did Change UK. The turnout was 36.9 per cent, the second highest since the elections began in 1979. Labour won no seats in Scotland and the Tories won no seats in London. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, learnt on his 70th birthday that Islington, where he lives, had fallen to the Lib Dems.
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