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After weeks of speculation and debate, Marmite’s first ever election campaign drew to a close last night, when the nation voted the pro-Marmite Love Party as the winning side.

The closely-fought battle resulted in the Love Party beating the Hate Party with 51.87% of the vote – the narrowest of margins against a total of 39,891 votes.

Both sides have been campaigning tirelessly over the past few weeks in a bid to attract voters – but in the end, the Love Party triumphed.

The Love Party will fulfill its victory pledge of building a celebratory shrine to Marmite, for lovers to congregate and worship their favourite yeast extract. The monument is expected to be situated within the region of Marmite’s birthplace, Burton-upon-Trent.

Phil is our Minister for Stuffed Toy Welfare one of YouTube UK’s finest comedic personalities. He has produced a twitter twitvideo on why Marmite is horrible and has caused his stuffed toy lion to malfunction! http://twitvid.com/SCXBQ

Love and Hate Party Cabinet Ministers have been busy campaigning over the past few weeks to help spread the message even further. You can watch their amazing efforts here...

MsMarmitelover – Love Party Minister for Food

MsMarmitelover is the pioneer of the UK supperclub movement with her home restaurant in London 'The Underground Restaurant'. To help spread the love, MsMarmitelover created some delicious homemade chocolate and caramel Marmite cupcakes, which were then distributed to fellow party members. Visit http://bit.ly/9WxvUk to try this recipe yourself and spread the love even further!

Nathan Wyburn – Love Party Minister for Breakfast Art

20-year-old art student Nathan Wyburn was appointed by the Love Party as their Official Minister for Breakfast Art, after they noticed his impressive collection of Marmite on toast artwork. To ‘Spread the Love’ Nathan recreated a famous Banksy art piece using 160 loaves of bread and Marmite and a more topical Gordon Brown Marmite on toast painting.

Seamus Waldron – Love Party Minister for Dance

Marmite super-fan and founder of lovemarmite.com, Seamus’ mission was to spread the love with his dance troop, ‘Mi Jive’. He hosted an impromptu flash mob dance-off event in central London against opposition Hate Party dance troop ‘Jive Nation.’
Seamus also pulled off a coup when he interviewed Speaker for the House of Commons John Bercow aka ‘Marmite man’ about his affection for the brown stuff.

Clive Allen – Love Party Minister for Fashion

Mega Marmite Lover Clive is a lecturer of Fashion at Kent University. He was tasked with create the ultimate Marmite fashion item of the future, and naturally, Clive took this great opportunity to create a very exclusive pair of ‘MC Hammer Pants’ and shoot a video with Marmite, his pet cat. Here is the result:

London Elektricity – Love Party Minister for Music

Multiple BT Digital Music and BBC 1XTRA award winning podcast host London Elektricity from Hospital Records has been helping the cause from day one by giving away limited edition ‘Spread the Love’ prize packs on http://www.londonelektricity.com/ and a ‘Spread Love’ track to commemorate the campaign on the Hospital Records Podcast 112 – Marmite Edition at http://www.hospitalrecords.com/podcast or search Hospital Records on iTunes!

EddsWorld & Terrible CakeBomb – Hate Party Ministers for OMG!

Dynamic duo of the asdfmovie, TomSka & EddsWorld come together as the most influential of up and coming YouTube animators (global #1) with over 1 million hits per video. Hate Party Cabinet Ministers of OMG! & Terrible present: Marmite is terrible! (asdfmite)

Daveyboyz – Hate Party Minister for Bad Taste

Daveyboyz is a YouTube star that is one of acquired taste – mostly bad taste! He stars in a Marmite production of ‘Mitebeth’ – a Shakespearian parody of the classic tale, Macbeth!

AmazingPhil – Hate Party Minister for Stuffed Toy Welfare

Phil is our Minister for Stuffed Toy Welfare one of YouTube UK’s finest comedic personalities. He has produced a twitter twitvideo on why Marmite is horrible and has caused his stuffed toy lion to malfunction! Coming soon!

Simon Borland – Hate Party Minister for Dance

The nemesis of Seamus’ Love Dance Party, Simon Borland is an Australian expatriate living in London and an avid Marmite hater. Simon took part in the flash mob dance-off event in central London against opposition Love Party dance troop ‘Mi Jive’.

After the recent televised debate which saw both party leaders go head-to-head, the latest polls reveal that the vote is split equally.

Latest poll:

The Love Party – 50%

The Hate Party – 50%

It seems that despite what can only be described as a minor meltdown by Heaving, (after he was forced to relive a traumatic Marmite related episode from his youth) voters turned out in their droves to support him.

Was the sympathy vote a masterstroke or a complete fluke? Either way, it's clear that every single vote will count in this tightest of election races.

Both parties are primed for a heated debate on key issues like healthcare, the environment and the potential danger of Marmite to cod.

The election is well under way and after some intense polling in recent days it looks like The Love Party is opening a meaningful lead for the first time.

Latest poll:

The Love Party – 69%

The Hate Party – 31%

The recent swing comes as no surprise after a marked increase in canvassing by Love Party supporters. Many have utilised the freely available (designed by Fay Freely) Love Party support packs across the country.

Does this latest poll spell the end for The Hate Party or can they stage their own comeback? Certainly the pressure would seem to be on Steve Heaving as we head towards this Thursday's much anticipated leadership debate.

Leader of the Love Party Fay Freely awoke today to images from the 1983 film ‘Yeastmaster’ spread across this morning’s front pages. Freely is shown dancing scantily clad in Hickton Woods in the Berkshire countryside, covered in Marmite.

The plot involves Freely’s character being chased into a clearing, where a barbarian and a maiden sit by a cauldron filled with Marmite. The barbarian is then heard to shout, ‘Dance for me, slave girl!’ When asked for his opinion, opposition leader Steve Heaving said he was ‘mostly disgusted’.

Earlier today, Hate Party leader Steve Heaving courted controversy at a north London school, when he attended an amnesty for Marmite-contaminated cutlery. A scuffle broke out after a protesting pupil caught him in the face with a Marmite filled water bomb.

Heaving was later heard to say: ‘There aren’t enough towel wipes in the world – I feel violated!’

The Love Party have released a new video giving voters an intimate view of life at home with Party Leader, Fay Freely. The video was intended to boost her credentials as a leader capable of balancing a career in politics and a happy family. However, the video clearly shows some cracks in Freely's carefully groomed image.