UK Independence Party representation and election results

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This article lists the election results and representation of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) with respect to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Scottish Parliament, Senedd (Welsh Parliament), Northern Ireland Assembly, London Assembly, European Parliament and local authorities.

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

House of Commons elections

UKIP has no Members of Parliament 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, and in any case subsequently lost his seat to the Conservatives in the 2010 general election.

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. Carswell was re-elected at the 2015 general election, but Reckless was not, the seat being re-taken by the Conservatives. Carswell thus became the only person so far to win a seat for UKIP in a general election, but left UKIP to sit as an independent MP on 25 March 2017. On 6 April 2017, Reckless—by now sitting in the Welsh Assembly, having been elected there in 2016—also left UKIP to sit with the Conservative group in the Assembly, although he had not yet officially rejoined his old party.

General elections

YearCandidatesNumber
of votes		SeatsDeposits
saved		 % Total
vote		 % Vote in
contested seats		Winner
1992 [lower-alpha 1] 174,383000.010.53 Conservative
1997 194106,028010.341.06 Labour
2001 [1] 428390,575061.482.16 Labour
2005 [2] 496603,2980382.202.80 Labour
2010 [3] 572919,5460993.103.45Hung Parliament
2015 [4] 6143,881,129154112.6413.15 Conservative
2017 378593,8520401.84Hung Parliament
2019 [5] 4422,817000.07 Conservative
2024 266,530010.03 Labour

By-elections

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

1992–97

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Barnsley East 12 December 1996 Count Nikolai Tolstoy 3782.15th of 6 Labour
South East Staffordshire 11 April 1996A. Smith1,2722.94th of 13 Labour
Hemsworth 1 February 1996Peter Davies4552.16th of 10 Labour
Barking 9 June 1994 Gerard Batten 4062.15th of 6 Labour
Dagenham 9 June 1994Peter Compobassi4572.15th of 6 Labour
Eastleigh 9 June 1994 Nigel Farage 9521.74th of 6 Liberal Democrats
Newham North East 9 June 1994Anthony Scholefield5092.64th of 7 Labour
Dudley West 15 December 1994Malcolm Floyd5901.44th of 10 Labour
Islwyn 16 February 1995Hugh Moelwyn Hughes2891.26th of 7 Labour
Perth and Kinross 25 May 1995Vivian Linacre5041.26th of 9 SNP
Littleborough and Saddleworth 27 July 1995 John Whittaker 5491.35th of 10 Liberal Democrats
Wirral South 27 February 1997Richard North4100.94th of 12 Labour

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1997–2001

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Uxbridge 31 July 1997James Feisenberger390.110th of 11 Conservative
Winchester 20 November 1997 Robin Page 5211.04th of 8 Liberal Democrats
Leeds Central 10 June 1999Raymond Northgreaves3532.75th of 7 Labour
Hamilton South 23 September 1999Alistair McConnachie610.310th of 12 Labour
Wigan 23 September 1999 John Whittaker 8345.24th of 9 Labour
Kensington and Chelsea 25 November 1999 Damian Hockney 4502.35th of 18 Conservative
Ceredigion 3 February 2000 John Bufton 4871.95th of 7 Plaid Cymru
Romsey 4 May 2000Garry Rankin-Moore9012.34th of 6 Liberal Democrats
Tottenham 22 June 2000Ashwinkumar Tanna1360.87th of 8 Labour
Preston 23 November 2000Gregg Beaman4582.15th of 9 Labour
West Bromwich West 23 November 2000Jonathan Oakton2461.35th of 5 Labour

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2001–05

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Ipswich 22 November 2001Jonathan Wright2761.05th of 9 Labour
Brent East 18 September 2003Brian Hall1400.610th of 16 Liberal Democrats
Hartlepool 30 September 2004Stephen Allison3,19310.23rd of 14 Labour

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2005–10

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Livingston 29 September 2005Peter Adams1080.47th of 10 Labour
Dunfermline and West Fife 9 February 2006Ian Borland2080.68th of 9 Liberal Democrats
Bromley and Chislehurst 29 June 2006 Nigel Farage 2,3478.13rd of 11 Conservative
Ealing Southall 19 July 2007K. T. Rajan2850.86th of 12 Labour
Sedgefield 19 July 2007Toby Horton5361.96th of 11 Labour
Crewe and Nantwich 22 May 2008 Mike Nattrass 9222.24th of 10 Conservative
Henley 26 June 2008Chris Adams8432.46th of 12 Conservative
Glenrothes 6 November 2008Kris Seunarine1170.37th of 8 Labour
Norwich North 23 July 2009Glenn Tingle4,06811.84th of 12 Conservative

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2010–15

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Oldham East & Saddleworth 13 January 2011 Paul Nuttall 2,0295.84th of 10 Labour
Barnsley Central 3 March 2011 Jane Collins 2,95312.22nd of 9 Labour
Leicester South 5 May 2011Abhijit Pandya9942.94th of 5 Labour
Inverclyde 30 June 2011Mitch Sorbie2881.05th of 5 Labour
Feltham & Heston 15 December 2011 Andrew Charalambous 1,2765.54th of 9 Labour
Bradford West 29 March 2012Sonja McNally1,0853.35th of 8 Respect
Cardiff South and Penarth 15 November 2012Simon Zeigler1,1796.15th of 8 Labour
Corby 15 November 2012 Margot Parker 5,10814.33rd of 14 Labour
Manchester Central 15 November 2012Chris Cassidy7494.54th of 12 Labour
Croydon North 29 November 2012 Winston McKenzie 1,4005.73rd of 12 Labour
Middlesbrough 29 November 2012Richard Elvin1,99011.82nd of 8 Labour
Rotherham 29 November 2012 Jane Collins 4,64821.72nd of 11 Labour
Eastleigh 28 February 2013 Diane James 11,57127.82nd of 14 Liberal Democrats
South Shields 2 May 2013Richard Elvin5,99824.22nd of 9 Labour [6]
Wythenshawe and Sale East 13 February 2014John Bickley4,30118.02nd of 7 Labour [7]
Newark 5 June 2014 Roger Helmer 10,02825.92nd of 11 Conservative [8]
Clacton 9 October 2014 Douglas Carswell 21,11359.71st of 8 UKIP [9]
Heywood and Middleton 9 October 2014John Bickley11,01638.72nd of 5 Labour [9]
Rochester and Strood 20 November 2014 Mark Reckless 16,86742.11st of 13 UKIP [10]

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2015–17

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Oldham West and Royton 3 December 2015John Bickley6,48723.42nd of 6 Labour
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 5 May 2016Steven Winstone4,49719.92nd of 7 Labour
Ogmore 5 May 2016Glenda Davies3,80816.22nd of 5 Labour
Tooting 16 June 2016Elizabeth Jones5071.65th of 14 Labour
Witney 20 October 2016Kenrick "Dickie" Bird1,3543.55th of 14 Conservative [11]
Sleaford and North Hykeham 8 December 2016Victoria Ayling4,42613.52nd of 10 Conservative
Copeland 23 February 2017Fiona Mills2,0256.54th of 7 Conservative
Stoke-on-Trent Central 23 February 2017 Paul Nuttall 5,23324.72nd of 10 Labour

2017–19

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Lewisham East 14 June 2018 David Kurten 3801.76th of 14 Labour
Newport West 4 April 2019 Neil Hamilton 2,0238.63rd of 11 Labour
Peterborough 6 June 2019John Whitby4001.26th of 15 Labour
Brecon and Radnorshire 1 August 2019Liz Phillips2420.86th of 6 Liberal Democrats

2019–24

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Airdrie and Shotts 13 May 2021Donald Mackay390.28th of 8 SNP
Batley and Spen 1 July 2021Jack Thomson1510.47th of 16 Labour
Old Bexley and Sidcup 2 December 2021John Poynton1840.87th of 11 Conservative
North Shropshire 16 December 2021Andrea Allen3781.06th of 14 Liberal Democrats
Southend West 3 February 2022Steve Laws [12] 4002.73rd of 9 Conservative
Tiverton and Honiton 23 June 2022Ben Walker2410.66th of 8 Liberal Democrats
Wakefield 23 June 2022Jordan Gaskell1240.513th of 15 Labour
City of Chester 1 December 2022Cain Griffiths1790.67th of 9 Labour
Somerton and Frome 20 July 2023Peter Richardson2750.77th of 8 Liberal Democrats
Uxbridge and South Ruislip 20 July 2023 Rebecca Jane 610.214th of 17 Conservative
Tamworth 19 October 2023Robert Bilcliff4361.75th of 9 Labour
Kingswood 15 February 2024Nicholas Wood1290.56th of 6 Labour

European Parliament elections

YearNumber
of votes		 % of
vote		SeatsPositionWinner
1994 150,2511.008th Labour
1999 696,057734th Conservative
2004 2,650,76816123rd Conservative
2009 2,498,22617132nd Conservative
2014 4,352,25127.5241st UKIP
2019 554,4633.208th Brexit Party

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Scottish Parliament elections

General elections

YearNumber
of votes		 % Vote+/-Seats+/-Winner
2007 8,1970.40N/A0N/A SNP
2011 18,1380.91+0.510±0 SNP
2016 46,4262.00+1.090±0 SNP
2021 3,8480.14-1.860±0 SNP

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By-elections

2000–present

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Ayr 16 March 2000 Alistair McConnachie 1130.48th Conservative
Glasgow Cathcart 29 September 2005Bryan McCormack540.49th Labour
Aberdeen Donside 20 June 2013Otto Inglis1,1284.85th SNP
Dunfermline 24 October 2013Peter Adams9083.85th Labour
Cowdenbeath 23 January 2014Denise Baykal6103.04th Labour
Shetland 29 August 2019Stuart Martin600.59th Liberal Democrats

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Welsh Assembly/Senedd elections

UKIP had seven members elected to the Welsh Assembly at the 2016 election. Following multiple defections, there was only one UKIP Assembly member (now Member of the Senedd, MS) by the time of the 2021 Senedd election:

Nathan Gill was elected in 2016, but left the Assembly group later that year to sit as an Independent. [13] Mark Reckless was elected in 2016, but defected to the Welsh Conservative Party in 2017. Caroline Jones resigned from the party in 2018. [14] Several former UKIP Assembly members moved to the Brexit Party in 2019. On 7 Nov 19 Gareth Bennett became an independent member, until 24 June 2020, as he later joined the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, a single-issue anti-Welsh Devolution party. [15] [16] [17]

No UKIP MSs were elected in the 2021 Senedd election, with the party's sole surviving MS, Neil Hamilton failing to be re-elected. [18] [19]

Assembly/Senedd elections

YearNumber of Votes % Vote+/-Seats+/-Winner
2003 19,7952.3N/A0N/A Labour
2007 38,4904.0+1.70±0 Labour
2011 43,7564.6+0.60±0 Labour
2016 132,13813.0+8.47+7 Labour
2021 8,5861.6-11.40-7 Labour

By-elections

2001–present

ConstituencyDateCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
votes		PositionWinner
Swansea East 27 September 2001Tim Jenkins2431.95th Labour
Ynys Môn 1 August 2013Nathan Gill3,09914.33rd Plaid Cymru

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Northern Ireland Assembly elections

YearNumber
of votes		 % of
vote		+/-Seats+/-Winner
2007 1,2290.2N/A0N/A DUP
2011 4,1520.6+0.40±0 DUP
2016 10,1091.5+0.80±0 DUP
2017 1,5790.2-1.30±0 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 did not have representation in the assembly again until the 2016 election in which it won two seats. Both their Assembly members, Peter Whittle and David Kurten, left the party in December 2018. UKIP lost both their seats at the 2021 election after finishing ninth on the London-wide list.

YearNumber of
FPTP votes		 % FPTP
vote		Number of
top-up votes		 % Top-up
vote		Seats+/-Winner
2000 2,1150.134,0542.00±0Conservative/Labour
2004 180,51610.0156,7808.22+2 Conservative
2008 71,9843.046,6171.90-2 Conservative
2012 95,8494.3100,0404.50±0 Labour
2016 197,4487.6171,0696.52+2 Labour
2021 n/a27,1141.00-2 Labour

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London Mayoral elections

YearCandidateNumber
of votes		 % of
vote		PositionWinner
2000 Damian Hockney 16,3241.08th Independent
2004 Frank Maloney 115,6666.24th Labour
2008 Gerard Batten 22,4221.27th Conservative
2012 Lawrence Webb43,2742.07th Conservative
2016 Peter Whittle 94,3733.65th Labour
2021 Peter Gammons14,3930.613th Labour

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