THE EU elections on Thursday saw Ryedale residents come out heavily in support of Nigel Farage's nascent Brexit Party.

The party, which produced no manifesto and campaigned on the single issue of leaving the European Union, won 6,190 votes in the Ryedale district.

Taken together, the three unambiguously pro-Remain parties of the Liberal Democrats, Greens and 'Change UK' took 5,764 votes.

This broke down as 3,176 for the Lib Dems, 2,115 for the Green Party, and just 473 for Change UK.

Mr Farage, who was elected for his new party in the South East, said: “History has been made. This is just the beginning.”

In a warning to the Westminster parties, he said: “If we don’t leave on October 31 then the scores you have seen for the Brexit Party today will be repeated in a general election, and we are getting ready for it.”

The Conservatives took 2,014 votes, putting them below the Green Party, and UKIP - one of the dominant forces in the district in 2014 - took only 540.

In the district, there was a turnout of 39.3 per cent of an electorate of 41,816 - this was an increase on the turnout of 34.36 per cent in the last poll in 2014.

The full breakdown for Ryedale District is as follow: 

Change UK – The Independent Group    473
Conservative and Unionist Party    2,014
English Democrats    115
Green Party    2,115
Labour Party    807
Liberal Democrats    3,176
The Brexit Party    6,190
The Yorkshire Party    899
UK Independence Party (UKIP)    540

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Yorkshire & Humber

The Ryedale results contributed to the wider count in the Yorkshire & Humber. Regionally, there was a turnout of 33.5 per cent from an electorate of 3,867,775.

The results in full were:

Change UK – The Independent Group    30,162
Conservative and Unionist Party    92,863
English Democrats    11,283
Green Party    166,980
Labour Party    210,516
Liberal Democrats    200,180
The Brexit Party    470,351
The Yorkshire Party    50,842
UK Independence Party (UKIP)    56,100

Six candidates were elected to be member of the European Parliament. These were as follows:

John Longworth - The Brexit Party
Lucy Elizabeth Harris - The Brexit Party
Jake Pugh - The Brexit Party
Richard Graham Corbett - Labour Party
Shaffaq Mohammed - Liberal Democrats
Magid Magid - Green Party

All the winning candidates had registered addresses in the region, apart from Lucy Harris and Jake Pugh of the Brexit Party, who live in Suffolk and Bedford respectively.

In the City of York Council area, the Lib Dems came first with 16,340 votes, with the Brexit party coming second with 15,347. The Green Party was third with 11,423, Labour fourth with 6,241 and the Conservatives fifth with 3,357.

Di Keal, leader of Ryedale Liberal Democrats, said: “It’s fantastic to see a Liberal Democrat MEP elected again in Yorkshire and Humber and the resounding anti-Brexit vote in York alongside strong opposition in Ryedale.

“Awareness is growing day by day that the wheels have fallen off the Brexit bus which was fuelled on broken promises and the results across the country show that we need a People’s Vote to put an end to this fiasco.”

On social media, Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton Kevin Hollinrake said that those pushing for the “purity” of a no-deal exit from the EU, rather than accepting a compromise, may be increasing the likelihood of a second referendum.

Josie Downs of the Ryedale Green Party said: "It was a great result for the Green Party, almost doubling our MEPs. The Yorkshire & Humber Region now has its very first Green MEP in Magid Magid which will delight Green voters.

"The vote shows that people care about environmental issues and about growing inequality and want politicians in power to listen and act. It also shows strong support for the GP's consistent stance on the EU."