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Originally Posted by Reg Anthony
Anthony, you are mixing up the figures for the constituency seats (3.01%) with those for the London-wide additional members (8.18% in 2004).
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Thanks for the correction. I don't live in London and us country bumpkins don't understand the ways of city folk.
I had assumed that the additional seats were calculated from the remains of the constituency votes.
3% in the constituency votes, which I presume is a measure of actual UKIP support is about what we expected. It is marginally higher than the General Election result. Given that there are far more parties available to vote for, I don't think it is that bad a result. It's poor because of the previous result (10% according to your number), but not wholly unexpected given the different circumstances.
As for the Mayoral vote... that really was abysmal.