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Election results on 4 June

On 4 June, elections were held to decide on members of Nottinghamshire County Council and the European Parliament. The result in the Keyworth county division of Nottinghamshire was:
09/06/09
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Green
Labour
2484
1313  (Debbie Boote)
  371
  259
Borough Councillors Debbie Boote, Sam Boote and Chris Evans remain in post and are available to serve Keyworth residents.

The Liberal Democrats received 21.5% of the popular vote in the county council elections in the Rushcliffe area and wish to thank all those who supported them.

In the European Parliament election, Bill Newton Dunn was re-elected as Liberal Democrat MEP to serve the East Midlands Region.

No doubt each of the parties will wish to put their own spin on the local and European results. The following is the Liberal Democrat "take" on last week's results.

Local elections
 
The Liberal Democrats:
 
- Achieved a record high vote share of 28 per cent (BBC projected national vote share).
- Beat Labour into third place.
- Were the only one of the three main parties to increase their projected share from last year's local elections.
- Won almost three times as many council seats as Labour (484 Liberal Democrat councillors to Labour's 178).
- Added Bristol to the list of major cities run by Liberal Democrats that also includes Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Edinburgh.
- Won five of the six county seats in Burnley from Labour (the BNP won the sixth).
- Made big gains from Labour in Ashfield.
- Became the largest group on the new unitary Bedford Council.
- Took three seats from the Conservatives and one from Labour on Essex County Council.
- Increased their number of seats on Surrey County Council, with both the Conservatives and Labour seeing their number of seats fall.
- Made net gains on many other county councils including Cumbria, Dorset, East Sussex, Hertfordshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Sussex and Worcestershire.
- Defeated the Conservative group leader on Cumbria County Council and the Labour council leader on Nottinghamshire County Council.
 
European elections
 
The Liberal Democrats:

- Gained an extra MEP (and more or less maintained their vote share).
- Elected Liberal Democrat MEPs in every part of England and Scotland, whilst narrowly failing to win a seat in Wales.
- Elected Catherine Bearder (South East) and George Lyon (Scotland) to the European Parliament for the first time.