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, which was reduced to 23 in 2015.
On 23rd January 2015, Amjad Bashir defected from UKIP to the Conservatives citing UKIP's "ridiculous lack of policies" [1]
House of Lords
- Baron Willoughby de Broke (defected from the Conservative Party in January 2007)
- Baron Pearson of Rannoch (previously in the Conservative Party, then an Independent Conservative, joined UKIP in January 2007)
- Baron Stevens of Ludgate (previously in the Conservative Party, then an Independent Conservative, joined UKIP in 2012)
The Devolved Chambers
- David McNarry MLA for Strangford, County Down, Northern Ireland (originally elected as UUP before becoming an Independent, then joined UKIP in October 2012)
UKIP has no representation in the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly.
Local authorities
Local authorities in which UKIP has representation are listed below. A full list of English local authorities is available. In total, UKIP has 214 seats out of a total of 19,385 local council seats in England (excluding the City of London and the Isles of Scilly).[2]
County Councils in England
Unitary Authorities in England
District Councils in England
Council | Councillor(s) |
---|---|
Aylesbury Vale District Council | 2 |
Allerdale Borough Council | 4[27][28] |
Huntingdonshire District Council | 3 |
North Norfolk District Council | 1 |
Rushmoor District Council | 3 |
Sevenoaks District Council | 1 |
South Oxfordshire District Council | 1 |
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council | 2 |
Wycombe District Council | 1 |
Scotland
UKIP has no representation in Scottish local government.
Wales
UKIP has two councillors out of a total of 1,264 elected in Wales (one in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council has died since the election).[29] Local authorities in which UKIP has representation are listed below. A full list of Welsh local authorities is available.
Council | Councillor(s) |
---|---|
Ceredigion County Council | 1[30] |
Vale of Glamorgan County Borough Council | 1 |
Northern Ireland
UKIP has three councillors out of a total of 582 elected in Northern Ireland. Local authorities in which UKIP has representation are detailed below. A full list of Northern Ireland local authorities is available.
Council | Councillor(s) |
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Newry and Mourne District Council | 1 |
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council | 1 |
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council | 1 |
House of Commons elections
UKIP has two seats in the House of Commons. The party 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.
General elections
Year | Candidates | Number of votes | Seats | Deposits saved | % Total vote | % Vote in contested seats | Winner | |
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1992 | 17 | 4,383 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.53 | | Conservative | |
1997 | 194 | 106,028 | 0 | 1 | 0.34 | 1.06 | | Labour | |
2001[31] | 428 | 390,575 | 0 | 6 | 1.48 | 2.16 | | Labour | |
2005[32] | 496 | 603,298 | 0 | 38 | 2.20 | 2.80 | | Labour | |
2010[33] | 572 | 919,546 | 0 | 99 | 3.10 | 3.45 | | 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 | |
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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 |
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1997–2001
Constituency | Date | Candidate | Number of votes | % of votes | Position | Winner | |
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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 |
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2001–05
Constituency | Date | Candidate | Number of votes | % of votes | Position | Winner | |
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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 |
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2005–10
Constituency | Date | Candidate | Number of votes | % of votes | Position | Winner | |
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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 |
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2010–present
Constituency | Date | Candidate | Number of votes | % of votes | Position | Winner | |
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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 Zeigler | 1,179 | 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 2013 | Diane James | 11,571 | 27.8 | 2nd| | Liberal Democrat | |
South Shields | 2 May 2013 | Richard Elvin | 5,998 | 24.2 | 2nd | | Labour[34] | |
Wythenshawe and Sale East | 13 February 2014 | John Bickley | 4,301 | 18.0 | 2nd | | Labour[35] | |
Newark | 5 June 2014 | Roger Helmer | 10,028 | 25.9 | 2nd | | Conservative[36] | |
Clacton | 9 October 2014 | Douglas Carswell | 21,113 | 59.7 | 1st | | UKIP[37] | |
Heywood and Middleton | 9 October 2014 | John Bickley | 11,016 | 38.7 | 2nd | | Labour[37] | |
Rochester and Strood | 20 November 2014 | Mark Reckless | 16,867 | 42.1 | 1st | | UKIP[38] |
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 |
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By-elections
2000–present
Constituency | Date | Candidate | Number of votes | % of votes | Position | Winner | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
UKIP won two seats to the London Assembly, via top-up list, in the 2004 election, although both subsequently defected to Veritas.
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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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References
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