The results in Thursday's by-election were:

(A Lib Dem gain from Conservative)

There is a report on the election at the Lancaster UAF website. 

Wealden UAF are disappointed whenever the BNP get any votes, let alone more than 10%, but there is a feeling that it could have been a lot worse.  The BNP traditionally get a high vote the first time they stand in an area, and the low turnouts in most district council by-elections. 

Combine those factors with the fact that there has been no organised anti-fascist activity in the area previously while the BNP have been working in Horsham for a year or two and the fact that their candidate lived in the area and was presentable and they will have been hoping for and expecting a better result.

Without our efforts to encourage a higher turnout there might have been fewer votes for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, giving the BNP a higher proportion of the vote.