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Poland hangs in .. 8.18pm BST Preliminary results from Poland

The Guardian's Remi Adekoya in Warsaw has just sent provisional exit polls from Poland: the pro-European ruling party Civic Platform looks ot have won the day with 33% of the vote, while the more euro-critical, conservative Law and Justice party is in second place on 32%. (The fiercely anti-EU New Right, whose leader Janusz Korwin-Mikke has said that if his party won seats in the European parliament they would put the parliament building to better use by turning it" into a "whorehouse", won 7.2%) JH

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8.49pm BST

My colleague Helen Pidd is at the count in Manchester. She's sent me this.

Outside Manchester town, hall a dozen or so protesters are waving "Nick Griffin must go" placards and shouting "Nazi scum" at four people wearing the British National party's red, white and blue rosettes smoking cigarettes in Albert Square.

Griffin is widely expected to lose the seat he won in 2009 after polling 132,094 votes (8% of the total) in the north-west region. He has applied for accreditation for the Manchester count, but has not yet arrived.

Though support for the BNP has plummeted over the past five years, the fascist party retains pockets of moderate support in east Lancashire and parts of Greater Manchester, though rarely enough to take office. In the local elections last week only one BNP candidate in the north-west won a seat, when Brian Parker was reelected for a third term in the Marsden ward of Nelson, Pendle.

A message posted by Griffin on Twitter on Sunday night suggested he knew he was going to have to concede defeat: "To all in counts 2day remember those piles of Ukip votes are only there because WE broke the taboo. & we'll be here when the Mirage has gone".

more interesting tidbits .. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/may/25/eu-election-results-live

.. it's feels kinda ironic that conservative austerity programs have played a part to even more right-wing parties gaining ground in most all of Europe ..

.. anyway .. sleep easy .. :)