EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

SCOTLAND ELECTORAL REGION

DATE OF POLL - 10 June 1999

I, DAVID STRINGER O' LOAN, being the Local Returning Officer for the WESTERN ISLES Constituency of the SCOTLAND Region of the European Parliament hereby give notice that the TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES GIVEN for each political party or individual candidate at the election was as follows:-

NAME OF POLITICAL PARTY OR INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATE

Number of Votes Given for the Political Party or Individual Candidate

BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY

45

LABOUR PARTY

1,849

NATURAL LAW PARTY

12

PRO EURO CONSERVATIVE PARTY

79

SCOTTISH GREEN PARTY

240

SCOTTISH LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

358

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY (SNP)

2,242

SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY (Convenor, Tommy Sheridan)

158

SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY

60

THE SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY

686

UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY

107

CHARLES FREDERICK YEAMAN LAWSON

10

and that I have reported this result to the Regional Returning Officer.

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The number of ballot papers rejected and not counted by me at this Election was as follows:-

(1)

want of official mark

14

(2)

voting for more than one candidate

5

(3)

writing or mark by which voter could be identified

4

(4)

unmarked or wholly void by uncertainty

6

TOTAL

5,875

David O'Loan

Returning Officer

Dated 14 June 1999