However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

The BNP lost its one seat ( although the BNP Member returned as an Independent Resident ), while Labour increased its membership by three, taking the BNP and two Conservative seats.

The party was founded in December 2000 by former members of the British National Party ( BNP ), dubbed " ultra-Tories " by BNP leader Nick Griffin, who were disaffected with the party's refusal to moderate its position on race.

This position is countered by BNP members who claim that their party is increasingly democratic in its nature.

Relatedly, the ANL has been subject to the more pragmatic criticism that its constant calls for groups like the BNP to be banned will allow the far right to portray themselves as victims of censorship, and the anti-fascist movement as intolerant and undemocratic.

BNP Paribas has its head office in the arrondissement.

BNP ruled Bangladesh for a total of 14 years since its independence, longer than any other party in Bangladesh.

The BNP has been opposed to communism and socialism since its inception and advocates vigorous free market policies.

Although concrete evidence of such is yet to be presented, there were massive speculations in the Bangladesh media that young first time voters, who comprised 31 % of the entire electorate this year, overwhelmingly rejected the BNP because of its association with corrupt businessmen, Islamic fundamentalists, and war criminals.

Her father, Charles Parker, became a leading member of the BNP in its early years and provided the party with a source of funding.

The NF's former national chairman, Tom Holmes, condemned the BNP as no longer being a white nationalist party for having a Sikh columnist in its party newspaper.

In February 2010, when the BNP had to change its constitution to allow non-whites into the party because of a High Court decision, the NF claimed to have received over 1000 membership enquiries from BNP members and said that local BNP branches in Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire had discussed switching over to them.

Hodge retained her seat at the May 2010 general election, doubling her majority to over 16, 000, following a hugely unsuccessful campaign by the BNP which saw Nick Griffin come third behind the Conservatives, and his party lose all 12 of its seats on Barking and Dagenham Council.

The BNP announced on 2 December 2010 its intention to launch a court action to have the Barking election result overturned under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, using the precedent set in the Oldham and Saddleworth constituency of Phil Woolas who was ejected from his seat for lying about his opponents during the election campaign.

Aiming to return to power, the BNP formed a four-party alliance on 6 January 1999 with its former political foe the Jatiya Party, and the Islamic party of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and the Islami Oikya Jot and launched several agitation programmes against the ruling Awami League.

The Awami League and its allies protested, saying that the elections would not be fair because of alleged bias by the caretaker government in favor of Khaleda Zia and the BNP.

The Awami League and its allies did not accept the results and called a month-long general strike and blockades to overthrow the illegitimate BNP government.

The Awami League and its allies protested, saying that the elections would not be fair because of alleged bias by the caretaker government in favor of Khaleda Zia and the BNP.

This was followed in April 1965 with general legislative elections with universal adult suffrage in which the Basotho National Party ( BNP ) won 31 and the Basutoland Congress Party ( BCP ) won 25 of the 65 seats contested.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan, the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) refused to cede power to the rival Basotholand Congress Party ( BCP ), although the BCP was widely believed to have won the elections.

The official result was: Labour lost 6 seats, the Conservatives won 4 seats, and the BNP ( British National Party ) won 2 seats.

BNP won the general election 2001 with a two-third majority of seats in parliament and 46 % of the vote ( compared to the principal opposition party's 40 %) and came back in power for 3rd term.

The party faced a landslide defeat at the hands of the Bangladesh Awami League in the 2008 Bangladesh general election, in which the 4-party alliance led by BNP won only 32 seats out of 299 constituencies, of which the BNP alone got 29.

Members of the BNP have previously won a council seat in the town in November 2002 following elections in May which saw three of their colleagues elected in nearby Burnley.

Mohiuddin Chowdhury won the important mayoral election in Chittagong, by a huge margin, against BNP nominee State Minister of Aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin.

More than 30 parties vied in the parliamentary elections of 15 February 1979, and with massive public support Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) won 207 of the 300 elected seats.

In the 2001 general elections BNP won the election with a two-third majority of seats in parliament and 46 % of the vote ( compared to the principal opposition party's 40 %) and Khaleda Zia was once again sworn in as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

The BNP won by default, grabbing all the 300 seats in the house of parliament and assumed power.

Finally a snap election was held in June 12, 1996 where Awami-League won a simple majority by beating its bitter rival BNP and would stay in power for the next five years.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) won the election, and Hasina's Awami League emerged as the largest opposition party.

The Awami League was expected to win it back, but the seat was won by the BNP.

He won the parliament election of 1979 as a BNP nominee from Munshiganj and served as cabinet minister during the years 1979-1982.

Gove's stance as Education Secretary on extremism and the British National Party ( BNP ) has won praise.

It won four seats in the 1965 election and cost the Basutoland Congress Party ( BCP ) government, ushering in the Basotho National Party ( BNP ).

He then played at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open, where he won his first-round match against Juan Ignacio Chela 6 – 3, 7 – 6, and then lost again to Roger Federer 3 – 6, 7 – 6, 1 – 6.

She came back at the 2011 BNP Paribas Open where she won her first match in nearly five months by beating American veteran Jill Craybas.

With an overwhelming progovernment majority, it was largely the instrument of the BNP, led by Prime Minister Jonathan.

The BNP described as the Islamic consciousness of the people of Muslim majority Bangladesh, in order to counter the secular Awami League.

All though the party has never held more than 60 of the some 22, 000 elected positions in local government, it is generally agreed by all parties that the BNP should be excluded from any coalition agreement on those councils where no single party has a majority.

On Sunday evening October 5, 2008, De Tijd reported that French bank BNP Paribas would take a majority stake in Fortis, with the Belgian and Luxembourg governments reduced to minority shareholders with blocking power in exchange for shares in BNP Paribas.

The elected parliament, composed mostly of BNP members, finally amended the constitution to create provisions for a caretaker government.

My point is simply that the drastic steps of proscription and censorship can only be taken by government and parliament … It is unreasonable and inconsistent to take the position that a party like the BNP is acceptable enough for the public to vote for, but not acceptable enough to appear on democratic platforms like Question Time.

Mohammadullah was elected a member of the parliament ( JS ) once again in 1991 on BNP ticket.