The Brexit Party (known since 2021 as Reform UK) stood in the following UK parliamentary elections and elections to the European Parliament in 2019.
European elections, 2019
The Brexit Party stood in the 2019 European Parliament elections in every regional constituency except Northern Ireland and won the highest number of seats and the most votes nationwide. 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom: Great BritainYearLeaderNumber of votesShare of votesSeatsChangePosition2019Nigel Farage5,248,53330.52%New1st
Results by regional constituency
The Brexit Party won at least one seat in every region that they stood in. The party topped the poll in the majority of districts in Great Britain. 2019 European Parliament election in the United KingdomEuropean Parliament constituencyNumber of votesShare of votesSeatsChangePositionElected membersImage of regional resultsEast Midlands452,32138.23%New1stAnnunziata Rees-Mogg, Jonathan Bullock and Matthew PattenEast of England604,71537.83%New1stRichard Tice, Michael Heaver and June MummeryLondon400,25717.9%New3rdBenyamin Habib and Lance FormanNorth East England240,05638.73%New1stBrian Monteith and John TennantNorth West England541,84331.23%New1stClaire Fox, Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen and David BullScotland233,00614.8New2ndLouis Stedman-BryceSouth East England915,68636.07%New1stNigel Farage, Alexandra Phillips, Robert Rowland and Belinda de LucySouth West England611,74236.84%New1stAnn Widdecombe, James Glancy and Christina JordanWales271,40432.5%New1stNathan Gill and James WellsWest Midlands507,15237.66%New1stRupert Lowe, Martin Daubney and Andrew England KerrYorkshire and the Humber470,35136.5%New1stJohn Longworth, Lucy Harris and Jake Pugh
Gibraltar For elections to the European Parliament, the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar was a part of the European Parliament constituency combined region of South West England, but votes were counted separately. The table below shows the results of the European Parliament election in Gibraltar. Date of electionVotes%20197468.0
By-elections, 2019 Date of electionConstituencyCandidateVotes%Elected MPRef6 June 2019Peterborough, CambridgeshireMike Greene9,80128.89Lisa Forbes (Labour)1 August 2019Brecon and Radnorshire, Mid WalesDes Parkinson3,33110.47Jane Dodds (Liberal Democrat)
General election ElectionLeaderVotesSeatsOutcome No. Share Seats won 2019Nigel Farage 644,257 2.0 N/AExtraparliamentary 2024Nigel Farage 4,117,221 14.3 5 General election, 2019
In April 2019, party leader Nigel Farage said the Brexit Party intended to stand candidates at the next general election. The same month, he promised not to stand candidates against the 28 Eurosceptic Conservative MPs who opposed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Parliament.
When a general election was held in December 2019, the Brexit Party stood in around half of the total seats in England, Scotland and Wales, campaigning most strongly in the red wall (seats long held by Labour Members of Parliament). The party did not stand in seats won by the Conservative Party in 2017 along with a number of exceptional seats; mainly in London, Scotland and the North East. A number of candidates who had been selected to stand in Conservative constituencies went on to run in the election as independent candidates on a Pro-Brexit platform.
As largely expected, the Brexit Party failed to win any seats in the general election. Among its results the best were in Barnsley Central, where Victoria Felton came second with 30.4% of the vote; Hartlepool, where party chairman Richard Tice came third with 25.8% of the vote; and Hull West and Hessle, where businesswoman and media personality Michelle Dewberry came third with 18% of the vote.
Results by constituency