UKIP push BNP into fifth place

These are the voting figures for the Feltham and Heston parliamentary by-election which was held yesterday.

Congratulations to British National Party candidate Dave Furness and his campaign team on beating both the Greens and the English Democrats.

The failure to beat the UKIP candidate and the sharp decline in the BNP's share of the vote since the general election are attributable, in equal measure, to Mr Griffin's profound personal unpopularity with voters and to the consequences of his unintelligent leadership of the party.

Seema Malhotra, Labour - 12,639 (54.42%, +10.79%)

Mark Bowen, Conservative - 6,436 (27.71%, -6.32%)

Roger Crouch, Liberal Democrats - 1,364 (5.87%, -7.87%)

Andrew Charalambous, UKIP - 1,276 (5.49%, +3.45%)

David Furness, BNP - 540 (2.33%, -1.21%)

Daniel Goldsmith, Green - 426 (1.83%, +0.74%)

Roger Cooper, English Democrats - 322 (1.39%)

George Hallam, London People Before Profit - 128 (0.55%)

David Bishop, Bus-Pass Elvis Party - 93 (0.40%)