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Many Brits will have come across the Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol (CISTA) party for the first time when they looked at their ballot paper on Thursday. Others will still probably never have heard of this niche party.

But though they're small and - yes - focused on one single issue, they notched up a couple of triumphs in the 2015 General Election.

The Cannabis party beat the BNP

This party beat the British National Party in terms of votes, this year.

A few years back there were serious concerns that the BNP could win seats and thus change British politics forever.

Yet now the party is all but destroyed.

BNP votes vs Cannabis party votes Votes

The Cannabis party is also more popular than Tories - in Northern Ireland

The Cannabis party had candidates in 33 constituencies - 19 in England, 4 in Northern Ireland, 8 in Scotland, and 1 in Wales.

The Cannabis party made their strongest showing in West Tyrone, with 528. There, they even beat the Conservatives, who got 169.

It's the same story in East Londonderry, where they beat the Tories with 527 votes against 422.

... And in Upper Bann, it was 460 to 201 to CISTA.

Looks like the Northern Irish are among the party's biggest fans.

And in the rest of the UK... Not so much

Back in England, it was also pretty popular in Esher and Walton - more popular than their independent candidate. But their 396 votes wasn't enough to stop the Tories from taking the seat.

The one candidate in Wales (Vale of Glamorgan) only got 238 and were far behind everyone else.

And in Scotland they were no way near anyone else, on 336 votes in Rutherglen & Hamilton West, while the Liberal Democrats managed to grab 1,045 votes.