What if all those 6,000+ electors had been registered for the Euro Parliament elections?

And if Mid Devon had done its homework too?

Well, here is what did happen in East Devon:

Click to access eu-elections-lro-declaration.pdf

Here is what happened in Mid Devon:

http://www.middevon.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=23530&p=0

Here is the result for the South West region

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_England_(European_Parliament_constituency)

Interesting – another few thousand votes could have tipped balances.