Just a quick fact check

Because it's always fun to correct a Professor.

Anthony King writes in today's Telegraph:

In the European Parliament elections in June the UKIP won 19.8 per cent of the popular vote and captured one of the North East region's three Strasbourg seats.

Well, it took me hardly any time to check my memory wasn't failing me and to confirm that while UKIP did take 19.8% in Hartlepool Borough (which I presume coincides with the parliamentary constituency) they only got 12.2% in the North East as a whole which meant they won no seats there (it was one each for Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats).

But then, corrections are what the Guardian does.