UK Independence Party representation and election results explained

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.

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

Year Candidates Number
of votes 		Seats Deposits
saved 		% Total
vote 		% Vote in
contested seats 		Winner
1992[1] 17 4,383 0 0 0.01 0.53
194 106,028 0 1 0.34 1.06
2001[2] 428 390,575 0 6 1.48 2.16
2005[3] 496 603,2980 38 2.20 2.80
2010[4] 572 919,546 0 99 3.10 3.45 Hung Parliament
2015[5] 614 3,881,129 1 541 12.64 13.15
2017378 593,852 0 40 1.84 Hung Parliament
2019[6] 44 22,817000.07
202426 6,530 000.03

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
12 December 1996 378 2.1 5th of 6
11 April 1996 A. Smith 1,272 2.9 4th of 13
1 February 1996 Peter Davies 455 2.1 6th of 10
9 June 1994 406 2.1 5th of 6
9 June 1994 Peter Compobassi 457 2.1 5th of 6
9 June 1994 952 1.7 4th of 6
9 June 1994 Anthony Scholefield 509 2.6 4th of 7
15 December 1994 Malcolm Floyd 590 1.4 4th of 10
16 February 1995 Hugh Moelwyn Hughes 289 1.2 6th of 7
25 May 1995 Vivian Linacre 504 1.2 6th of 9
27 July 1995 549 1.3 5th of 10
27 February 1997 Richard North 410 0.9 4th of 12

Source:

1997–2001

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
31 July 1997 James Feisenberger 39 0.1 10th of 11
20 November 1997 521 1.0 4th of 8
10 June 1999 Raymond Northgreaves 353 2.7 5th of 7
23 September 1999 Alistair McConnachie 61 0.3 10th of 12
23 September 1999 834 5.2 4th of 9
25 November 1999 450 2.3 5th of 18
3 February 2000 487 1.9 5th of 7
4 May 2000 Garry Rankin-Moore 901 2.3 4th of 6
22 June 2000 Ashwinkumar Tanna 136 0.8 7th of 8
23 November 2000 Gregg Beaman 458 2.1 5th of 9
23 November 2000 Jonathan Oakton 246 1.3 5th of 5

Source:

2001–05

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
22 November 2001 Jonathan Wright 276 1.0 5th of 9
18 September 2003 Brian Hall 140 0.6 10th of 16
30 September 2004 Stephen Allison 3,193 10.2 3rd of 14

Source:

2005–10

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
29 September 2005 Peter Adams 108 0.4 7th of 10
9 February 2006 Ian Borland 208 0.6 8th of 9
29 June 2006 2,347 8.1 3rd of 11
19 July 2007 K. T. Rajan 285 0.8 6th of 12
19 July 2007 Toby Horton 536 1.9 6th of 11
22 May 2008 922 2.2 4th of 10
26 June 2008 Chris Adams 843 2.4 6th of 12
6 November 2008 Kris Seunarine 117 0.3 7th of 8
23 July 2009 Glenn Tingle 4,068 11.8 4th of 12

Source:

2010–15

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
13 January 2011 2,029 5.8 4th of 10
3 March 2011 2,953 12.2 2nd of 9
5 May 2011 Abhijit Pandya 994 2.9 4th of 5
30 June 2011 Mitch Sorbie 288 1.0 5th of 5
15 December 2011 1,276 5.5 4th of 9
29 March 2012Sonja McNally 1,085 3.3 5th of 8
15 November 2012Simon Zeigler1,1796.1 5th of 8
15 November 2012Margot Parker5,10814.33rd of 14
15 November 2012Chris Cassidy7494.5 4th of 12
29 November 2012Winston McKenzie1,4005.73rd of 12
29 November 2012Richard Elvin1,99011.82nd of 8
29 November 2012Jane Collins4,64821.72nd of 11
28 February 2013Diane James11,57127.82nd of 14
2 May 2013Richard Elvin5,99824.22nd of 9 [7]
13 February 2014John Bickley4,30118.02nd of 7 [8]
5 June 2014Roger Helmer10,02825.92nd of 11 [9]
Clacton 9 October 2014Douglas Carswell21,11359.71st of 8 [10]
9 October 2014John Bickley11,01638.72nd of 5
Rochester and Strood 20 November 2014Mark Reckless16,86742.11st of 13 [11]

Source:

2015–17

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
3 December 2015 John Bickley 6,487 23.4 2nd of 6
5 May 2016 Steven Winstone 4,497 19.9 2nd of 7
5 May 2016 Glenda Davies 3,808 16.2 2nd of 5
16 June 2016 Elizabeth Jones 507 1.6 5th of 14
20 October 2016 Kenrick "Dickie" Bird 1,354 3.5 5th of 14 [12]
8 December 2016 Victoria Ayling 4,426 13.5 2nd of 10
23 February 2017 Fiona Mills 2,025 6.5 4th of 7
23 February 2017 5,233 24.7 2nd of 10

2017–19

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
14 June 2018 380 1.7 6th of 14
4 April 2019 2,023 8.6 3rd of 11
6 June 2019 John Whitby 400 1.2 6th of 15
1 August 2019 Liz Phillips 242 0.8 6th of 6

2019–24

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
13 May 2021 Donald Mackay 39 0.2 8th of 8
1 July 2021 Jack Thomson 151 0.4 7th of 16
2 December 2021 John Poynton 184 0.8 7th of 11
16 December 2021 Andrea Allen 378 1.0 6th of 14
3 February 2022 Steve Laws[13] 400 2.7 3rd of 9
23 June 2022 Ben Walker 241 0.6 6th of 8
23 June 2022 Jordan Gaskell 124 0.5 13th of 15
1 December 2022 Cain Griffiths 179 0.6 7th of 9
20 July 2023 Peter Richardson 275 0.7 7th of 8
20 July 2023 61 0.2 14th of 17
19 October 2023 Robert Bilcliff 436 1.7 5th of 9
15 February 2024 Nicholas Wood 129 0.5 6th of 6

European Parliament elections

Year Number
of votes 		% of
vote 		Seats Position Winner
150,251 1.0 0 8th
696,057 7 3 4th
2,650,768 16 12 3rd
2,498,226 17 13 2nd
4,352,251 27.5 24 1st
554,463 3.2 0 8th
Source:

Scottish Parliament elections

General elections

Year Number
of votes 		% Vote +/- Seats +/- Winner
8,197 0.40 N/A 0 N/A
18,138 0.91 +0.51 0 ±0
46,426 2.00 +1.09 0 ±0
3,848 0.14 -1.86 0 ±0

Source:

By-elections

2000–present

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
16 March 2000 113 0.4 8th
29 September 2005 Bryan McCormack 54 0.4 9th
20 June 2013 Otto Inglis 1,128 4.8 5th
24 October 2013 Peter Adams 908 3.8 5th
23 January 2014 Denise Baykal 610 3.0 4th
29 August 2019 Stuart Martin 60 0.5 9th
Source:

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.[14] Mark Reckless was elected in 2016, but defected to the Welsh Conservative Party in 2017. Caroline Jones resigned from the party in 2018.[15] 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.[16] [17] [18]

No UKIP MSs were elected in the 2021 Senedd election, with the party's sole surviving MS, Neil Hamilton failing to be re-elected.[19] [20]

Assembly/Senedd elections

Year Number of Votes % Vote +/- Seats +/- Winner
19,795 2.3 N/A 0 N/A
38,490 4.0 +1.7 0 ±0
43,756 4.6 +0.6 0 ±0
132,138 13.0 +8.4 7 +7
8,586 1.6 -11.4 0 -7

By-elections

2001–present

Constituency Date Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
votes 		Position Winner
27 September 2001 Tim Jenkins 243 1.9 5th
1 August 2013 Nathan Gill 3,099 14.3 3rd

Source:

Northern Ireland Assembly elections

Year Number
of votes 		% of
vote 		+/- Seats +/- Winner
1,229 0.2 N/A 0 N/A
4,152 0.6 +0.4 0 ±0
10,109 1.5 +0.8 0 ±0
1,579 0.2 -1.3 0 ±0

Source:

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.

Year Number of
FPTP votes 		% FPTP
vote 		Number of
top-up votes 		% Top-up
vote 		Seats +/- Winner
2,115 0.1 34,054 2.0 0 ±0 Conservative/Labour
180,516 10.0 156,780 8.2 2 +2
71,984 3.0 46,617 1.9 0 -2
95,849 4.3 100,040 4.5 0 ±0
197,448 7.6 171,069 6.5 2 +2
n/a 27,114 1.0 0 -2

Source:

London Mayoral elections

Year Candidate Number
of votes 		% of
vote 		Position Winner
16,324 1.0 8th
115,666 6.2 4th
22,422 1.2 7th
Lawrence Webb 43,274 2.0 7th
94,373 3.6 5th
Peter Gammons 14,393 0.6 13th

Notes and References

  1. As Anti-Federalist League
  2. http://www.ukpolitical.info/ResultsFull01.htm "2001 General election results"
  3. http://www.ukpolitical.info/ResultsFull05.htm "2005 General election results"
  4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/ Election 2010 National Results
  5. https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2015/results Election 2015 Results
  6. Web site: Known candidates for each ballot in the UK Parliament elections. Democracy Club Candidates.
  7. News: South Shields byelection: Labour holds off Ukip surge. Wintour. Patrick. 3 May 2013. The Guardian.
  8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26184146 "Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election: Labour wins"
  9. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27711254 "Conservatives see off UKIP challenge to win Newark by-election"
  10. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-29549414 "UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win"
  11. Medway Council: "Rochester and Strood Constituency Parliamentary By-Election 20 November 2014" . Accessed 22 November 2014
  12. West Oxfordshire District Council "Declaration of Result of Poll", 21 October 2016
  13. News: Southend West by-election live updates: Residents vote to elect MP after Sir David Amess' death. Essex Live. Whitehouse. Ellis. 4 February 2022. 4 February 2022. Steve Laws (UKIP) 400 (2.69%).
  14. News: Nathan Gill leaves UKIP assembly group to sit as independent. 13 November 2016. BBC News. 17 August 2016.
  15. David Deans, "UKIP AM Caroline Jones quits party over 'far-right move'", BBC News, 12 September 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  16. News: Ukip AM quits to back Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - leaving the party with just one member in the Senedd. Argus reporter. 7 November 2019. South Wales Argus. en. 27 May 2020.
  17. News: A Member of the Senedd has joined the Abolish the Assembly party. Hayward. Will. 24 June 2020. Wales Online. 24 June 2020.
  18. News: Ex-UKIP Senedd leader Gareth Bennett joins anti-devolution party. BBC News. 24 June 2020. 26 June 2020.
  19. Web site: 2021 election results: latest from local, Scottish and Welsh votes. Voce. Antonio. Leach. Anna. Clarke. Seán. Kommenda. Niko. en. 9 May 2021. The Guardian.
  20. News: Senedd election: Wales' new representatives in 2021. Thomas. Nicholas. 10 May 2021. South Wales Argus. 21 July 2022.

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