{"id":954972,"date":"2026-05-12T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:26:17","slug":"why-did-reform-not-take-more-seats-across-hertfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954972\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Reform not take more seats across Hertfordshire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An event that took place a decade ago might provide another clue about the way some voters in Hertfordshire may feel about Reform UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The party&#8217;s leader, Nigel Farage, championed the Brexit cause before the EU referendum of 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the councils won by his party were in areas which voted to leave the EU, including Thurrock, where the 72% Brexit vote was the fourth highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although most areas of Hertfordshire also voted to withdraw from the EU, many did so by a very narrow margin, such as the 50.3% seen in Watford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the other hand, two thirds of the population in St Albans wanted to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is possible that, 10 years on, attitudes to Euroscepticism still influenced the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, Reform UK&#8217;s performance in Hertfordshire could be put down to factors including individual candidates&#8217; backstories, Brexit and the voting system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is something for all the parties to chew over once they have recovered from this remarkable election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reform UK has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An event that took place a decade ago might provide another clue about the way some voters in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-954972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116562073088972613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}