This article lists the election results and representation of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) with respect to the House of Commons, Scottish Parliament, Senedd (Welsh Parliament), Northern Ireland Assembly, London Assembly and European Parliament.
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 Numberof votes Seats Depositssaved % Totalvote % Vote incontested seats Winner 1992As Anti-Federalist League 17 4,383 0 0 0.01 0.53 1997 194 106,028 0 1 0.34 1.06 2001"2001 General election results" at UK Political Info 428 390,575 0 6 1.48 2.16 2005"2005 General election results" at UK Political Info 496 603,298 0 38 2.20 2.80 2010Election 2010 National Results, BBC News 572 919,546 0 99 3.10 3.45 Hung Parliament 2015Election 2015 Results, BBC News 614 3,881,129 1 541 12.64 13.15 2017 378 593,852 0 40 1.84 Hung Parliament 2019 44 22,817 0 0 0.07 2024 26 6,530 0 1 0.03
By-elections Below are UKIP's results for the Westminster by-elections in which it competed for each period.
1992–97 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position Winner Barnsley East 12 December 1996 Count Nikolai Tolstoy 378 2.1 5th of 6 South East Staffordshire 11 April 1996 A. Smith 1,272 2.9 4th of 13 Hemsworth 1 February 1996 Peter Davies 455 2.1 6th of 10 Barking 9 June 1994 Gerard Batten 406 2.1 5th of 6 Dagenham 9 June 1994 Peter Compobassi 457 2.1 5th of 6 Eastleigh 9 June 1994 Nigel Farage 952 1.7 4th of 6 Newham North East 9 June 1994 Anthony Scholefield 509 2.6 4th of 7 Dudley West 15 December 1994 Malcolm Floyd 590 1.4 4th of 10 Islwyn 16 February 1995 Hugh Moelwyn Hughes 289 1.2 6th of 7 Perth and Kinross 25 May 1995 Vivian Linacre 504 1.2 6th of 9 Littleborough and Saddleworth 27 July 1995 John Whittaker 549 1.3 5th of 10 Wirral South 27 February 1997 Richard North 410 0.9 4th of 12
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1997–2001 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position Winner Uxbridge 31 July 1997 James Feisenberger 39 0.1 10th of 11 Winchester 20 November 1997 Robin Page 521 1.0 4th of 8 Leeds Central 10 June 1999 Raymond Northgreaves 353 2.7 5th of 7 Hamilton South 23 September 1999 Alistair McConnachie 61 0.3 10th of 12 Wigan 23 September 1999 John Whittaker 834 5.2 4th of 9 Kensington and Chelsea 25 November 1999 Damian Hockney 450 2.3 5th of 18 Ceredigion 3 February 2000 John Bufton 487 1.9 5th of 7 Romsey 4 May 2000 Garry Rankin-Moore 901 2.3 4th of 6 Tottenham 22 June 2000 Ashwinkumar Tanna 136 0.8 7th of 8 Preston 23 November 2000 Gregg Beaman 458 2.1 5th of 9 West Bromwich West 23 November 2000 Jonathan Oakton 246 1.3 5th of 5
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2001–05 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position Winner Ipswich 22 November 2001 Jonathan Wright 276 1.0 5th of 9 Brent East 18 September 2003 Brian Hall 140 0.6 10th of 16 Hartlepool 30 September 2004 Stephen Allison 3,193 10.2 3rd of 14
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2005–10 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position Winner Livingston 29 September 2005 Peter Adams 108 0.4 7th of 10 Dunfermline and West Fife 9 February 2006 Ian Borland 208 0.6 8th of 9 Bromley and Chislehurst 29 June 2006 Nigel Farage 2,347 8.1 3rd of 11 Ealing Southall 19 July 2007 K. T. Rajan 285 0.8 6th of 12 Sedgefield 19 July 2007 Toby Horton 536 1.9 6th of 11 Crewe and Nantwich 22 May 2008 Mike Nattrass 922 2.2 4th of 10 Henley 26 June 2008 Chris Adams 843 2.4 6th of 12 Glenrothes 6 November 2008 Kris Seunarine 117 0.3 7th of 8 Norwich North 23 July 2009 Glenn Tingle 4,068 11.8 4th of 12
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2010–15 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position WinnerOldham East & Saddleworth 13 January 2011 Paul Nuttall 2,029 5.8 4th of 10 Barnsley Central 3 March 2011 Jane Collins 2,953 12.2 2nd of 9 Leicester South 5 May 2011 Abhijit Pandya 994 2.9 4th of 5 Inverclyde 30 June 2011 Mitch Sorbie 288 1.0 5th of 5 Feltham & Heston 15 December 2011 Andrew Charalambous 1,276 5.5 4th of 9 Bradford West 29 March 2012 Sonja McNally 1,085 3.3 5th of 8 Cardiff South and Penarth 15 November 2012 Simon Zeigler1,179 6.1 5th of 8 Corby 15 November 2012 Margot Parker 5,108 14.3 3rd of 14 Manchester Central 15 November 2012 Chris Cassidy 749 4.5 4th of 12 Croydon North 29 November 2012 Winston McKenzie 1,400 5.7 3rd of 12 Middlesbrough 29 November 2012 Richard Elvin 1,990 11.8 2nd of 8 Rotherham 29 November 2012 Jane Collins 4,648 21.7 2nd of 11 Eastleigh 28 February 2013Diane James 11,571 27.8 2nd of 14 South Shields 2 May 2013 Richard Elvin5,99824.2 2nd of 9 Wythenshawe and Sale East 13 February 2014 John Bickley4,30118.0 2nd of 7 "Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election: Labour wins" BBC News, 14 February 2014Newark 5 June 2014 Roger Helmer10,02825.9 2nd of 11 "Conservatives see off UKIP challenge to win Newark by-election" BBC News, 6 June 2014Clacton 9 October 2014 Douglas Carswell21,11359.7 1st of 8 "UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win", BBC News, 10 October 2014Heywood and Middleton 9 October 2014 John Bickley11,01638.7 2nd of 5 Rochester and Strood 20 November 2014 Mark Reckless16,86742.1 1st of 13 Medway Council: "Rochester and Strood Constituency Parliamentary By-Election 20 November 2014" . Accessed 22 November 2014
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2015–17 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position WinnerOldham West and Royton 3 December 2015 John Bickley 6,487 23.4 2nd of 6 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough 5 May 2016 Steven Winstone 4,497 19.9 2nd of 7 Ogmore 5 May 2016 Glenda Davies 3,808 16.2 2nd of 5 Tooting 16 June 2016 Elizabeth Jones 507 1.6 5th of 14 Witney 20 October 2016 Kenrick "Dickie" Bird 1,354 3.5 5th of 14 West Oxfordshire District Council "Declaration of Result of Poll" , 21 October 2016Sleaford and North Hykeham 8 December 2016 Victoria Ayling 4,426 13.5 2nd of 10 Copeland 23 February 2017 Fiona Mills 2,025 6.5 4th of 7 Stoke-on-Trent Central 23 February 2017 Paul Nuttall 5,233 24.7 2nd of 10
2017–19 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position WinnerLewisham East 14 June 2018 David Kurten 380 1.7 6th of 14 Newport West 4 April 2019 Neil Hamilton 2,023 8.6 3rd of 11 Peterborough 6 June 2019 John Whitby 400 1.2 6th of 15 Brecon and Radnorshire 1 August 2019 Liz Phillips 242 0.8 6th of 6
2019–24 Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position WinnerAirdrie and Shotts 13 May 2021 Donald Mackay 39 0.2 8th of 8 Batley and Spen 1 July 2021 Jack Thomson 151 0.4 7th of 16 Old Bexley and Sidcup 2 December 2021 John Poynton 184 0.8 7th of 11 North Shropshire 16 December 2021 Andrea Allen 378 1.0 6th of 14 Southend West 3 February 2022 Steve Laws 400 2.7 3rd of 9 Tiverton and Honiton 23 June 2022 Ben Walker 241 0.6 6th of 8 Wakefield 23 June 2022 Jordan Gaskell 124 0.5 13th of 15 City of Chester 1 December 2022 Cain Griffiths 179 0.6 7th of 9 Somerton and Frome 20 July 2023 Peter Richardson 275 0.7 7th of 8 Uxbridge and South Ruislip 20 July 2023 Rebecca Jane 61 0.2 14th of 17 Tamworth 19 October 2023 Robert Bilcliff 436 1.7 5th of 9 Kingswood 15 February 2024 Nicholas Wood 129 0.5 6th of 6
European Parliament elections Year Numberof votes % ofvote Seats Position Winner 1994 150,251 1.0 0 8th 1999 696,057 7 3 4th 2004 2,650,768 16 12 3rd 2009 2,498,226 17 13 2nd 2014 4,352,251 27.5 24 1st 2019 554,463 3.2 0 8th Source:
Scottish Parliament elections
General elections Year Numberof votes % Vote +/- Seats +/- Winner 2007 8,197 0.40 N/A 0 N/A 2011 18,138 0.91 +0.51 0 ±0 2016 46,426 2.00 +1.09 0 ±0 2021 3,848 0.14 -1.86 0 ±0
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By-elections
2000–present Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position WinnerAyr 16 March 2000 Alistair McConnachie 113 0.4 8th Glasgow Cathcart 29 September 2005 Bryan McCormack 54 0.4 9th Aberdeen Donside 20 June 2013 Otto Inglis 1,128 4.8 5th Dunfermline 24 October 2013 Peter Adams 908 3.8 5th Cowdenbeath 23 January 2014 Denise Baykal 610 3.0 4th Shetland 29 August 2019 Stuart Martin 60 0.5 9th Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse 5 June 2025 Janice Mackay 50 0.2 10th 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: Neil Hamilton
Nathan Gill was elected in 2016, but left the Assembly group later that year to sit as an Independent. Mark Reckless was elected in 2016, but defected to the Welsh Conservative Party in 2017. Caroline Jones resigned from the party in 2018.David Deans, "UKIP AM Caroline Jones quits party over 'far-right move'", BBC News, 12 September 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2020. 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.
No UKIP MSs were elected in the 2021 Senedd election, with the party's sole surviving MS, Neil Hamilton failing to be re-elected.
Assembly/Senedd elections Year Number of Votes % Vote +/- Seats +/- Winner 2003 19,795 2.3 N/A 0 N/A 2007 38,490 4.0 +1.7 0 ±0 2011 43,756 4.6 +0.6 0 ±0 2016 132,138 13.0 +8.4 7 +7 2021 8,586 1.6 -11.4 0 -7
By-elections
2001–present Constituency Date Candidate Numberof votes % ofvotes Position WinnerSwansea East 27 September 2001 Tim Jenkins 243 1.9 5th Ynys Môn 1 August 2013 Nathan Gill 3,099 14.3 3rd Caerphilly 23 October 2025 Roger Quilliam 79 0.2 8th Source:
Northern Ireland Assembly elections Year Numberof votes % ofvote +/- Seats +/- Winner 2007 1,229 0.2 N/A 0 N/A 2011 4,152 0.6 +0.4 0 ±0 2016 10,109 1.5 +0.8 0 ±0 2017 1,579 0.2 -1.3 0 ±0
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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.