{"id":1700,"date":"2013-05-05T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk\/teamweb\/electionscentre\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2013-05-05T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T10:00:30","slug":"1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"Polls close &#038; a UKIP dominated campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>ITV News Election Analyst, <strong>Professor Colin Rallings from Plymouth University<\/strong> says if the Conservative Party loses seats to UKIP, David Cameron will face some difficult questions from his own MPs &#8211; 5th May 2013<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Polls have closed in local elections following a campaign dominated by the UK Independence Party. Ahead of voting, bookmakers predicted Nigel Farage&#8217;s candidates could scoop more than 100 seats. Counting will get underway in some town halls shortly, but most votes will be counted tomorrow&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/update\/2013-05-02\/ukip-to-be-surprise-package-at-local-elections\/\">click here to continue to the original article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/update\/2013-05-02\/ukip-to-be-surprise-package-at-local-elections\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1678\" alt=\"ITV\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk\/teamweb\/electionscentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/itvlogo-300x199.png?resize=300%2C199\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV News Election Analyst, Professor Colin Rallings from Plymouth University says if the Conservative Party loses seats to UKIP, David Cameron will face some difficult questions from his own MPs &#8211; 5th May 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,4,7,17,18,11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5YXV0-1700","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}