5% drop due to a mass campain of red propaganda(which they could not have done at the main elections because they were too far spread)  EDIT   Loughton saw a 5% drop. No ifs, no buts, no maybe's. A 5% drop that appears to fit in with a trend first noticed last May. It needs to be analysed and a strategy formed to reverse it. That is what would happen in any mature political organisation - but I take it you'll all be going down the pub to celebrate keeping a seat you should never have been in danger of losing?   The BNP raw vote went up practically everywhere last may.