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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.

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

European Parliament

UKIP had 24 MEPs elected at the 2014 European elections, its highest tally to date. As of November 2016 it has 20 MEPs.

  • On 23 January 2015, Amjad Bashir (Yorkshire and the Humber) defected from UKIP to the Conservatives citing UKIP's "ridiculous lack of policies".
  • On 23 March 2015, Janice Atkinson (South East England) was expelled from UKIP for bringing the party into disrepute. She now sits as an independent and in June 2015, joined the Europe of Nations and Freedom group in the European Parliament.
  • On 17 October 2016, Steven Woolfe (North West England) resigned from UKIP, calling the party "ungovernable". He now sits as an independent MEP.
  • On 21 November 2016, Diane James (South East England) resigned from the party that she had briefly led, saying it was "time to move on" from UKIP and she would continue to serve as an independent MEP.

    • 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)

    • Devolved Parliaments and Assemblies

    There are seven UKIP members of the Welsh Assembly

  • Gareth Bennett
  • Michelle Brown
  • Nathan Gill
  • Neil Hamilton (Group Leader)
  • Caroline Jones
  • Mark Reckless
  • David Rowlands

    • UKIP has no representation in the Scottish Parliament or Northern Ireland 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) The following year they won 163 seats (out of about 4,200 up for election), while in 2015 (on the same day as the general election), they won 202 seats (out of about 9,300).

    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).

    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).

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    Scottish councils

    UKIP has no representation in Scottish local government.

    Welsh councils

    UKIP has one councillor in Wales, in Vale of Glamorgan.

    Northern Ireland councils

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

    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.

    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. Carswell left UKIP to sit as an independent MP on 25 March 2017.

    By-elections

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

    1992–97

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    1997–2001

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    2001–05

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    2005–10

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    2010–2015

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    General elections

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    2000–present

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    Current representatives

    There are six UKIP members of the Welsh Assembly

  • Gareth Bennett
  • Michelle Brown
  • Neil Hamilton (Group Leader)
  • Caroline Jones
  • Mark Reckless
  • David Rowlands

    • Nathan Gill was elected in 2016, but left the Assembly group later that year to sit as an Independent. He remains a UKIP MEP.

    Assembly elections

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    2001–present

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    Northern Ireland Assembly elections

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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.

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    European Parliament elections

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    References

    UK Independence Party representation and election results Wikipedia
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