was 35% in Gibraltar, below the 39% for the South West England electoral region as a whole and significantly lower than the turnout in Gibraltar in 2004. The Conservatives won with 53.3% of the votes. Labour narrowly retained second place achieving 19% to the Liberal Democrats' 18.2%. Northern Ireland It was the DUP's worst ever European election result: the party had previously topped the poll in every European election in Northern Ireland since the first one in 1979. It was also the first time an Irish Republican topped the poll, Bairbre de Brún of Sinn Féin coming first with 125,000 votes. The share of the votes for most parties in Northern Ireland remained essentially unchanged, the main exceptions were the DUP where their share of the vote fell by 13.8%, and the TUV, a party created by former DUP MEP Jim Allister whose share of the vote rose 13.7%. The DUP's decreased vote share was largely blamed on the TUV splitting the vote. Summary of the election results for Northern Ireland {| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Party ! rowspan="2" | Candidate ! rowspan="2" | Seats ! rowspan="2" | Loss/GainFirst Preference Votes |- ! Number ! % of vote |- style="text-align:right;font-weight: bold;" | | Bairbre de Brún || 1 || 0 || 126,184 ||25.8 |- style="text-align:right;font-weight: bold;" | | Diane Dodds || 1 || 0 || 88,346 ||18.1 |- style="text-align:right;font-weight: bold;" | | Jim Nicholson || 1 || 0 || 82,892 ||17.0 |- style="text-align:right;" | | Alban Maginness || 0 || 0 || 78,489 ||16.1 |- style="text-align:right;" | | Jim Allister || 0 || 0 || 66,197 ||13.5 |- style="text-align:right;" | | Ian Parsley || 0 || 0 || 26,699 ||5.5 |- style="text-align:right;" | | Steven Agnew || 0 || 0 || 15,764 ||3.2 |- style="text-align:right;" |colspan=5|Turnout||488,891 ||42.8 |} Incumbents defeated Labour Glyn Ford (South West England) Neena Gill (West Midlands) Richard Corbett (Yorkshire and the Humber) Traditional Unionist Voice Jim Allister (Northern Ireland) – was elected in the 2004 election as a candidate for the DUP; subsequently in 2007 Allister resigned from the DUP and formed the TUV. In the 2009 election, Diane Dodds retook the seat for the DUP. Aftermath Gordon Brown faced calls for him to resign as Prime Minister following Labour's defeat. During the 2005 Conservative leadership election, David Cameron argued for withdrawal of the Conservatives from EPP-ED and for the formation of a new