UK Independence Party representation and election results

This article lists the election results and representation of the UK Independence Party with respect to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales, Northern Ireland Assembly, London Assembly, European Parliament and local authorities.

For results of elections contested by the Anti-Federalist League, UKIP's predecessor, see Anti-Federalist League election results.

Current representatives

European Parliament

UKIP had 24 MEPs elected at the 2014 European elections, its highest tally to date. It currently has 22 MEPs.

Constituency MEP(s)
East Midlands Roger Helmer, Margot Parker
East of England Patrick O'Flynn, Stuart Agnew, Tim Aker
London Gerard Batten
North West England Paul Nuttall, Louise Bours, Steven Woolfe
North East England Jonathan Arnott
Scotland David Coburn
South East England Nigel Farage, Diane James, Ray Finch
South West England
 Earl of Dartmouth, Julia Reid
Wales Nathan Gill
West Midlands Jill Seymour, James Carver, Bill Etheridge
Yorkshire and the Humber Jane Collins, Mike Hookem

House of Lords

Devolved Parliaments and Assemblies

UKIP has no representation in the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly.

Local authorities

UKIP achieved its first major breakthrough in local elections in 2013, when they won 140 seats (out of around 2,300 being contested)[4] The following year they won 163 seats (out of about 4,200 up for election),[5] while in 2015 (on the same day as the general election), they won 202 seats (out of about 9,300).[6]

Also in 2015, UKIP won control of Thanet Council, the first time the party had won control of a local council (apart from town or parish councils). However, within six months they had lost overall control of the council (though still remaining the largest party) after five councillors left the party.[7]

English councils

Immediately following the elections in May 2015, UKIP had 494 seats out of a total of 19,385 local council seats in England (excluding the City of London and the Isles of Scilly).

Council Type Councillors
County Councils 132
Unitary Authorities 67
London Boroughs 12
Metropolitan Boroughs 41
District Councils 242

Source:[8]

Scottish councils

UKIP has no representation in Scottish local government.[9]

Welsh councils

UKIP has one councillor in Wales, in Vale of Glamorgan.[10]

Northern Ireland councils

UKIP won three seats in Northern Ireland at the inaugural elections for the new Northern Ireland councils in 2014;[11] one each in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon,[12] Mid and East Antrim[13] and Newry, Mourne and Down[14]

House of Commons elections

UKIP has one seat in the House of Commons. The party first had representation for a period in 2008 when Dr Bob Spink, the MP for Castle Point, resigned from the Conservative Party and joined UKIP on 21 April 2008. However, by November 2008, Spink had left UKIP.

Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, and Mark Reckless, the MP for Rochester and Strood, resigned from the Conservative Party to join UKIP on 28 August and 27 September 2014, respectively, and resigned their seats shortly thereafter. Carswell and Reckless won subsequent by-elections held on 9 October and 20 November 2014. At the 2015 general election, Carswell was re-elected, but Reckless was not.

General elections

Year Candidates Number
of votes 		Seats Deposits
saved 		% Total
vote 		% Vote in
contested seats 		Winner
1992 17 4,383 0 0 0.01 0.53 | Conservative
1997 194 106,028 0 1 0.34 1.06 | Labour
2001[15] 428 390,575 0 6 1.48 2.16 | Labour
2005[16] 496 603,298 0 38 2.20 2.80 | Labour
2010[17] 572 919,546 0 99 3.10 3.45 | Conservative
2015[18] 614 3,881,129 1 541 12.64 13.15 | Conservative

By-elections

Below are UKIP's results for the Westminster by-elections in which it competed for each period.

1992–97

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Barnsley East 12 December 1996 Count Nikolai Tolstoy 378 2.1 5th | Labour
South East Staffordshire 11 April 1996 A. Smith 1,272 2.9 4th | Labour
Hemsworth 1 February 1996 Peter Davies 455 2.1 6th | Labour
Barking 9 June 1994 Gerard Batten 406 2.1 5th | Labour
Dagenham 9 June 1994 Peter Compobassi 457 2.1 5th | Labour
Eastleigh 9 June 1994 Nigel Farage 952 1.7 4th | Liberal Democrat
Newham North East 9 June 1994 Anthony Scholefield 509 2.6 4th | Labour
Dudley West 15 December 1994 Malcolm Floyd 590 1.4 4th | Labour
Islwyn 16 February 1995 Hugh Moelwyn Hughes 289 1.2 6th | Labour
Perth and Kinross 25 May 1995 Vivian Linacre 504 1.2 6th | SNP
Littleborough and Saddleworth 27 July 1995 John Whittaker 549 1.3 5th | Liberal Democrat
Wirral South 27 February 1997 Richard North 410 0.9 4th | Labour

Source:

1997–2001

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Uxbridge 31 July 1997 James Feisenberger 39 0.1 10th | Conservative
Winchester 20 November 1997 Robin Page 521 1.0 4th | Liberal Democrat
Leeds Central 10 June 1999 Raymond Northgreaves 353 2.7 5th | Labour
Hamilton South 23 September 1999 Alistair McConnachie 61 0.3 10th | Labour
Wigan 23 September 1999 John Whittaker 834 5.2 4th | Labour
Kensington and Chelsea 25 November 1999 Damian Hockney 450 2.3 5th | Conservative
Ceredigion 3 February 2000 John Bufton 487 1.9 5th | Plaid Cymru
Romsey 4 May 2000 Garry Rankin-Moore 901 2.3 4th | Liberal Democrat
Tottenham 22 June 2000 Ashwinkumar Tanna 136 0.8 7th | Labour
Preston 23 November 2000 Gregg Beaman 458 2.1 5th | Labour
West Bromwich West 23 November 2000 Jonathan Oakton 246 1.3 5th | Labour

Source:

2001–05

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Ipswich 22 November 2001 Jonathan Wright 276 1.0 5th | Labour
Brent East 18 September 2003 Brian Hall 140 0.6 10th | Liberal Democrat
Hartlepool 30 September 2004 Stephen Allison 3,193 10.2 3rd | Labour

Source:

2005–10

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Livingston 29 September 2005 Peter Adams 108 0.4 7th | Labour
Dunfermline and West Fife 9 February 2006 Ian Borland 208 0.6 8th | Liberal Democrat
Bromley and Chislehurst 29 June 2006 Nigel Farage 2,347 8.1 3rd | Conservative
Ealing Southall 19 July 2007 K. T. Rajan 285 0.8 6th | Labour
Sedgefield 19 July 2007 Toby Horton 536 1.9 6th | Labour
Crewe and Nantwich 22 May 2008 Mike Nattrass 922 2.2 4th | Conservative
Henley 26 June 2008 Chris Adams 843 2.4 6th | Conservative
Glenrothes 6 November 2008 Kris Seunarine 117 0.3 7th | Labour
Norwich North 23 July 2009 Glenn Tingle 4,068 11.8 4th | Conservative

Source:

2010–2015

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Oldham East & Saddleworth 13 January 2011 Paul Nuttall 2,029 5.8 4th | Labour
Barnsley Central 3 March 2011 Jane Collins 2,953 12.2 2nd | Labour
Leicester South 5 May 2011 Abhijit Pandya 994 2.9 4th | Labour
Inverclyde 30 June 2011 Mitch Sorbie 288 1.0 5th | Labour
Feltham & Heston 15 December 2011 Andrew Charalambous 1,276 5.5 4th | Labour
Bradford West 29 March 2012 Sonja McNally 1,085 3.3 5th | Respect
Cardiff South and Penarth 15 November 2012 Simon Zeigler1,179 6.1 5th| Labour
Corby 15 November 2012 Margot Parker 5,108 14.3 3rd| Labour
Manchester Central 15 November 2012 Chris Cassidy 749 4.5 4th| Labour
Croydon North 29 November 2012 Winston McKenzie 1,400 5.7 3rd| Labour
Middlesbrough 29 November 2012 Richard Elvin 1,990 11.8 2nd| Labour
Rotherham 29 November 2012 Jane Collins 4,648 21.7 2nd| Labour
Eastleigh 28 February 2013Diane James 11,571 27.8 2nd| Liberal Democrat
South Shields 2 May 2013 Richard Elvin5,99824.2 2nd | Labour[19]
Wythenshawe and Sale East 13 February 2014 John Bickley4,30118.0 2nd | Labour[20]
Newark 5 June 2014 Roger Helmer10,02825.9 2nd | Conservative[21]
Clacton 9 October 2014 Douglas Carswell21,11359.7 1st | UKIP[22]
Heywood and Middleton 9 October 2014 John Bickley11,01638.7 2nd | Labour[22]
Rochester and Strood 20 November 2014 Mark Reckless16,86742.1 1st | UKIP[23]

Source:

Scottish Parliament elections

General elections

Year Number
of votes 		% Vote +/- Seats +/- Winner
2007 8,197 0.40 N/A 0 N/A | SNP
2011 18,138 0.91 +0.51 0 ±0 | SNP

Source:

By-elections

2000–present

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Ayr 16 March 2000 Alistair McConnachie 113 0.4 8th | Conservative
Glasgow Cathcart 29 September 2005 Bryan McCormack 54 0.4 9th | Labour
Aberdeen Donside 20 June 2013 Otto Inglis 1,128 4.8 5th | SNP
Dunfermline 24 October 2013 Peter Adams 908 3.8 5th | Labour
Cowdenbeath 23 January 2014 Denise Baykal 610 3.0 4th | Labour

UKIP did not stand in the 2006 Moray by-election, the 2001 Strathkelvin and Bearsden by-election, the 2001 Banff and Buchan by-election, or the 2000 Glasgow Anniesland by-elections.

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Welsh Assembly elections

Assembly elections

Year Number of Votes % Vote +/- Seats +/- Winner
2003 19,795 2.3 N/A 0 N/A | Labour
2007 38,490 4.0 +1.7 0 ±0 | Labour
2011 43,756 4.6 +0.6 0 ±0 | Labour

Source:

By-elections

2001–present

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
Swansea East 27 September 2001 Tim Jenkins 243 1.9 5th | Labour
Ynys Môn 1 August 2013 Nathan Gill 3,099 14.3 3rd | Plaid Cymru

Source:

Northern Ireland Assembly elections

Year Number
of votes 		% of
vote 		+/- Seats +/- Winner
2011 4,152 0.6 +0.4 0 ±0 | DUP
2007 1,229 0.2 N/A 0 N/A | DUP

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London Assembly elections

The London Assembly is elected using both first-past-the-post constituencies and a London-wide list using the D'hondt method of proportional representation. At the 2004 election (held on the same day as elections to the European Parliament), UKIP won two of the London-wide seats, although both members subsequently defected to Veritas and contested the 2008 election as the One London party. UKIP has failed to win seats on the Assembly since.

Year Number of
FPTP votes 		% FPTP
vote 		Number of
top-up votes 		% Top-up
vote 		Seats +/- Winner
2000 2,115 0.1 34,054 2.0 0 ±0 Conservative/Labour
2004 180,516 10.0 156,780 8.2 2 +2 | Conservative
2008 71,984 3.0 46,617 1.9 0 -2 | Conservative
2012 100,040 4.5 0 ±0 | Labour

Source:

London Mayoral elections

Year Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
vote 		Position Winner
2000 Damian Hockney 16,324 1.0 8th | Independent
2004 Frank Maloney 115,666 6.2 4th | Labour
2008 Gerard Batten 22,422 1.2 7th | Conservative
2012 Lawrence Webb 43,274 2.0 7th | Conservative

European Parliament elections

Year Number
of votes 		% of
vote 		Seats Position Winner
1994 150,251 1.0 0 8th | Labour
1999 696,057 7 3 4th | Conservative
2004 2,650,768 16 12 3rd | Conservative
2009 2,498,226 17 13 2nd | Conservative
2014 4,352,251 27.5 24 1st | UKIP

Source:

References

  1. ↑ "UKIP MEP Amjad Bashir defects to Conservative Party", BBC News,
  2. ↑ "UKIP's Janice Atkinson expelled from party". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "South East MEP Janice Atkinson joins far-right EU group". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Local elections: Nigel Farage hails results as a 'game changer'". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "England Council Results". BBC News. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Local Election Results 2015". BBC News. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "UKIP loses control of Thanet council over Manston issue". BBC News. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Local Council Political Composition".
  9. ↑ "Local Council Political Composition".
  10. ↑ "Local Council Political Composition".
  11. ↑ "Northern Ireland Council Results". BBC News.
  12. ↑ "Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon". BBC News.
  13. ↑ "Mid and East Antrim". BBC News.
  14. ↑ "Newry City, Mourne and Down". BBC News.
  15. ↑ "2001 General election results" at UK Political Info
  16. ↑ "2005 General election results" at UK Political Info
  17. ↑ Election 2010 National Results, BBC News
  18. ↑ Election 2015 Results, BBC News
  19. ↑ Patrick Wintour, "South Shields byelection: Labour holds off Ukip surge" The Guardian, 3 May 2013
  20. ↑ "Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election: Labour wins" BBC News, 14 February 2014
  21. ↑ "Conservatives see off UKIP challenge to win Newark by-election" BBC News, 6 June 2014
  22. 1 2 "UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win", BBC News, 10 October 2014
  23. ↑ Medway Council: "Rochester and Strood Constituency Parlimentary By-Election 20 November 2014". Accessed 22 November 2014
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