Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Single-issue
parties
- The Green Party
- 1999 European elections -
GP secured 6.3% of
votes and 2 MEPs
- Won 2 seats at 2004 and
2009 European elections
- BNP
- 1990's steady
progress in local
elections in
northewst
- Party failed to succeed in
2010 general election
- Secured 1.9%
of the popular
vote
- No seats won
- Won 2 of the 72 available
seats at 2009 European
election
- UKIP
- 16.5% of the vote and 13
seats at the 2009
European election
- Lots of
media
coverage
- 2010 general elections more
candidates fielded yet marginal
increase of vote only
- Single-issue
candidates
- 1997, 2001 and 2005
elections - rise in
single-issue candidates
and parties
- May be because mainstream
parties have ceased to fulfill
their representative function
- Dr Richard Taylor as
the Kidderminster
Hospital and Health
concern candidate in
Wyre Forest in 2001
and 2005
- Trend not repeated in
2010 general election