UKIP Regional (Yorkshire & North Lincs.) Awards

Here are the highlights and winners from the UKIP Yorkshire & North Lincs. 2012 Local Election Results (punching above our weight once more!)

2012 Best Percentage Award

	CANDIDATE	WARD	UKIP %
1	John Wilkinson	Silverwood	39
2	Edward Shepherd	Scartho	37
3	William Harness	Humberston & New Waltham	35
4	Brian Bailey	Wath	31
5	Sean O'Dell	Swinton	29
6	Valerie Wilkinson	Sitwell	28
7	Grant French	Stocksbridge & Upper Don	27
8	Caven Vines	Rotherham West	26
9	Michael Pallant	Hoober	26
10	Tina Dowdall	Wickersley	25
11	David Dews	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	25
12	Bryan Barkley	Normanton	25
13	Jason Smith	Queensbury	25

(Percetage rounded up/down to nearest %)

I used 25% as the cut off, 13 candidates making the cut.

John Wilkinson of Rotherham recieved an amazing 39% (and still failed to win the seat?!), just beating out UKIP's Council winning candidates Edward Shepherd in 2nd.

2012 Best Campaign Award

	CANDIDATE	WARD	Votes  from  winning
1	Jason Smith	Queensbury	189
2	William Harness	Humberston & New Waltham	230
3	John Wilkinson	Silverwood	253
4	Grant French	Stocksbridge & Upper Don	384
5	Valerie Wilkinson	Sitwell	455

Candidates closest to taking seat.  I used 500 votes as cut of point, a couple of other candidates were ommitted due to their small percentages:

			Percentage
Timothy Veal	Park	355	16
John Upex	Spofforth with Lower Wharfdale	492	11

I managed to beat out some big names being only 189 votes off taking UKIP's second seat!

2012 Best Vote Award

	CANDIDATE	WARD	UKIP vote
1	Grant French	Stocksbridge & Upper Don	1386
2	John Wilkinson	Silverwood	1140
3	Valerie Wilkinson	Sitwell	1019
4	William Harness	Humberston & New Waltham	1001
5	David Dews	Wrenthorpe and Outwood West	940
6	Edward Shepherd	Scartho	931
7	Brian Bailey	Wath	930
8	Paul Spivey	Kippax & Methley	889
9	Jason Smith	Queensbury	884
10	Jonathan Arnott	Woodhouse	879

Just took the Top 10 here.

Clear winner was Sheffield man Grant French with a astounding 1386 votes!

2012 Best Branch Award

Branch	Percentage
Rotherham	25
NE Lincolnshire	21
Wakefield	18
Doncaster	18
Barnsley	14
Kingston-Upon-Hull	12
Harrogate	11
Kirklees	11
Sheffield	11
Bradford	11
Leeds	10

Full branch results, used average percentage as indicator.

No surprise with Rotherham taking the Best Branch Award!

2012 Councillor Award

CANDIDATE	WARD	AUTHORITY
Edward Shepherd	Scartho	NE Lincolnshire

Congratulations to Edward on becoming a councillor!

Jason Smith says thanks to UKIP voters in Queensbury

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 884 people who voted for me in the Queensbury council elections. This was a tremendous result where one in four people put their trust in me. After the final count, I was only 189 votes from becoming the local councillor.


Local people can rest assured that I won’t sit back and rest on my laurels and will continue to work for you throughout the year."

Jason Smith, UKIP Queensbury & Clayton Heights, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/tafeaturesletters/9698034.I_won___t_rest_on_laurels/


Full Queensbury result: http://www.bradford.gov.uk/asp/elections/resultsDetailL.asp?id=82&eid=7

2012 Local Elections - UKIP Bradford & District

Results from the UKIP Bradford & District,

Queensbury and Wibsey results were phenomenal!

This signals a massive breakthrough in Bradford.  4 first time candidates all posting good results and all with good scalps!

Queensbury – Jason Smith

884 votes (24.9%, vote increase from 9.8%)

3^rd place and 189 votes off winning the seat!

Best ever result in Bradford District

Wibsey – Jamie Illingworth

781 votes (23.5%, increase from 10.5%)

Excellent 2^nd place (972 votes) behind Labour beating the Tories & Lib Dems

Great Horton – Pal Bjornstom

4^th place, 390 votes (8.2%) – slightly down percentage (8.6%) from 2011 by-election

Great effort from first time candidate!

Ilkley – Paul Latham

3^rd place, 354 votes (7.2%) beating Green and Lib Dem

Good increased of previous vote (5.9%) and position increase (from 4^th)

Baildon – James Fell

4^th place, 331 votes (6.9%), beating Greens

Great vote for first time candidate!

Philip Bird – Shipley

4^th place, 297 votes (6.7%) beating Lib Dem and Socalist Labour Party

Great result for long standing paper candidate!

Heaton – Sonja McNally

4^th place, 302 votes (5.9%) beating Lib Dems

First time standing for UKIP, formally Green

Bradford Moor – Jim Dempsey

4^th place, 143 votes (2.2%) beating Conservative!

Good showing for first time candidate