The UK Independence Party is a Eurosceptic,right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s,when it gained two members of parliament and was the largest party representing the UK in the European Parliament. The party is currently led by Nick Tenconi.
Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and Leader of Reform UK since 2024,having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020.
John Douglas Wilson Carswell is a British former politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017,co-founded Vote Leave and currently serves as president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
Giles Francis Watling is a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton from 2017 until 2024. He was an actor prior to entering politics.
Clacton is a constituency in Essex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Nigel Farage of Reform UK. It is centred on the seaside town of Clacton,hence its name.
Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg is a British freelance journalist whose focus is finance,economics,and European politics. She was a Brexit Party,then Conservative politician,during 2019 and into early 2020. Rees-Mogg has been a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph,deputy editor of MoneyWeek,and editor of the European Journal,a Eurosceptic magazine owned by Bill Cash's think tank,the European Foundation.
Catherine Zena Bearder is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament between 2 July 2014 and 12 November 2019. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 4 June 2009 to 31 January 2020.
Since 2009,the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom has experimented with the use of open primaries to select some parliamentary candidates.
Tendring First is a local political party operating throughout Tendring,Essex,England. They field candidates for Tendring District Council,Essex County Council and Frinton and Walton Town Council. They currently have one councillor on Tendring District Council,where they form the administartion with Independent,Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors. They also have control of Frinton &Walton Town Council with eight councillors.
On 9 October 2014,a by-election was held for the UK parliamentary constituency of Clacton in Essex,England. The by-election was triggered by the Conservative MP for Clacton,Douglas Carswell,defecting to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and subsequently resigning his seat to seek re-election as its candidate.
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020;it was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018,and was the first European election in the United Kingdom since 1999 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. This was the first of two national elections held in the United Kingdom in 2019;the 2019 general election occurred six-and-a-half months later in December 2019.
Nigel Farage is a British MP for Clacton and former MEP for South East England who has stood as a candidate representing eurosceptic parties UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Reform UK since 1994. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing South East England from the 1999 election until the British withdrawal from the European Union in 2020,winning re-election four times. Farage has stood for election to the House of Commons eight times,in six general elections and two by-elections,losing in every attempt until 2024 in Clacton. He was also a proponent of the UK leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum,in which the electorate voted to do so by 52% to 48%.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Nigel Farage has served as the party's leader since June 2024 and Richard Tice has served as the party's deputy leader since July 2024. The party currently has five members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons and one member of the London Assembly. Following Farage's resumption of the leadership during the 2024 general election,there was a sharp increase in support for the party. In the election it was the third largest party by popular vote,with 14.3 per cent of the vote.
Alexandra Lesley Phillips is a British journalist,broadcaster,and former politician.
John Tennant is a British politician,who was a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East of England between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. Tennant is also the former party leader of Independent Union,of which he is a councillor on Hartlepool Borough Council for the Jesmond ward.
Michael Eric Heaver is a British broadcaster and former politician. He was elected as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England constituency in the 2019 election and served in that role until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. Previously,he was the chair of the UK Independence Party (UKIP)'s youth wing,Young Independence.
The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019. These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit.
The 2023 Tendring District Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect all 48 members of Tendring District Council in Essex,England. This would be on the same day as other local elections across England and parish council elections in the district.
An election took place in the Essex constituency of Clacton on 4 July 2024,as part of the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Nigel Farage,the newly re-appointed leader of Reform UK and the former leader of the UK Independence Party,won the election with 46.2% of the vote and successfully entered Parliament after 7 previous attempts. As "figurehead of the country's populist right",Farage brought Clacton to international attention.
