Who became UKIP's first MP when he won the Clacton by-election in October 2014?
"UKIP major donor Arron Banks, who had earlier indicated his intention to stand in Clacton to defeat Douglas Carswell, withdrew in favour of the UKIP candidate after Carswell announced he would be standing down. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood chose not to contest a Westminster seat, nor did former Labour MP and shadow chancellor Ed Balls. In the 2015 general election, polling companies underestimated the Conservative Party vote and overestimated the Labour Party vote and so failed to predict the result accurately. Afterwards they started making changes to polling practices; recommendations from a review by the British Polling Council are"
"Independence Party (UKIP) Annual Conference at Doncaster, which coincided with the eve of the Conservative Party Annual Conference, Reckless announced his plans to follow suit. Carswell won the Clacton by-election (on 9 October 2014) with 59.7% of the vote. Reckless had previously been recognised as one of the most malcontent Conservatives in the House of Commons, having led a rebellion of 53 Conservative MPs over the EU Budget which inflicted the first Commons defeat on the Con-LibDem Coalition Government. Medway Council, who administered the election, published the statement of persons nominated on 24 October, confirming 13 candidates would contest the"
"party earlier in 2018. Julia Reid announced her resignation from UKIP on 8 December 2018, with Jonathan Bullock following the next day. During the 2010–15 Parliament, two Conservative MPs defected to UKIP and were re-elected in subsequent by-elections. At the 2015 general election, UKIP retained one of these seats (Clacton) and received over 30% of the vote in Boston and Skegness, South Thanet, Heywood and Middleton, Thurrock and Rochester and Strood. They lost their only seat in the 2017 election, as Clacton was regained by the Conservatives. In campaigning on emotive issues, UKIP has proved divisive. Popular stereotypes have framed"
"Carswell winning the seat of Clacton during a Clacton by-election in October 2014. Carswell had defected from the Conservatives, and gained 59.75% of the vote. In November fellow defector from the Conservatives, Mark Reckless, resigned his seat in order to trigger a by-election, before being re-elected for UKIP in Rochester and Strood. In the 2015 general election, Carswell held his seat but Reckless lost his. UKIP's share of the vote nationally rose to 13%. Farage did not win the constituency of South Thanet and briefly resigned as leader, before the party's NEC rejected his resignation and he was re-instated as"
"election, UKIP's share of the vote fell by 36.8%, one of its largest declines in the country, and the subsequent Conservative victory in Clacton marked the first time every constituency in Essex had returned a Conservative MP since 1987. Clacton (UK Parliament constituency) Clacton is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, represented since 2017 by Giles Watling of the Conservative Party. Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission created this as a new seat, consisting of essentially the former Harwich constituency, minus the town of Harwich itself and a few nearby"
"Mike Barker ,Christopher ""JustQCharley"" Challis, Stephen Goldsbrough and Charlotte Rose. Barker is a former MoD scientist who ran on a campaign of making the safe. Rose had stood in October's Clacton by-election in Essex, describing herself as ""standing up for sexual freedom"". The results were declared at 04:15 UTC on Friday, 21 November 2014. Reckless retained the seat (though now with his new party) with 16,867 votes, a majority of 2,920, with just over 42% of the vote (he received 49.2% of the vote as the Conservative candidate in 2010). This was the second highest UKIP vote share in a"
"for the 2014 European Elections. UKIP received the greatest number of votes (27.49%) of any British party in the 2014 European Parliament election and gained 11 extra MEPs for a total of 24. The party won seats in every region of Great Britain, including its first in Scotland. It was the first time in over a century that a party other than Labour or Conservatives won the most votes in a UK-wide election. In the Heywood and Middleton by-election, UKIP canididate John Bickley came second in the poll with 11,016 votes (38.7%), 2.2% behind the winner. The 36-point increase in"
"election, with an increased majority. The 2014 Clacton by-election, caused by the defection from the Conservatives of Douglas Carswell, a prominent advocate of open primaries, selected actor Giles Watling over Colchester councillor Sue Lissimore on 11 September. The candidate for the 2014 Rochester and Strood by-election, caused by the defection from the Conservative Party of Mark Reckless to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), was chosen by a postal open primary. Kelly Tolhurst, a local councillor, narrowly won over fellow councillor Anna Firth. Tolhurst lost the by-election to Reckless, but later won the seat at the following year's general election. Conservative"
"Clacton campaign. During the campaign, a second Conservative MP and close friend of Carswell, Mark Reckless, likewise defected to UKIP and sought re-election in a by-election for his constituency of Rochester and Strood. Tendring District Council, the local authority administering the by-election, confirmed the deadline for nominations as 4 pm on 16 September 2014. Carswell announced that he would stand again for the seat as UKIP's candidate, although he was opposed by the recently selected UKIP candidate, Roger Lord, with some local activists speculating that they might not adopt Carswell. However, UKIP rules for selecting by-election candidates invested the decision"
"the 2010 general election, finishing 5th (1,490 votes, 3%). In 2012, she stood in the Corby by-election, finishing third with 5,108 votes (14.3%). Following the election of Henry Bolton as leader of UKIP in 2017, Parker was appointed deputy leader. After Bolton refused to stand down following a vote of no confidence from UKIP's National Executive Committee, Parker resigned as deputy leader. Margot Parker Margaret Lucille Jeanne Parker (born 24 July 1943) is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region for the UK Independence Party. She was elected in 2014. She was born in Grantham"
"(after 12.6% in the 2015 election) and no seats in the House of Commons. On 24 June 1995, UKIP gained its first member of the House of Lords, The Lord Grantley, who had joined the party in 1993 from the Conservatives and had recently succeeded to his father's titles. However, with the coming House of Lords Act 1999, he decided not to stand for election as a continuing member, and so left the House in November 1999. Earlier in 1999, UKIP had gained a second peer in the House of Lords, The Earl of Bradford, but he, too, left the"
"him, but resigned after 18 days, triggering another leadership election. Held in November 2016, it was won by Paul Nuttall. Nuttall led the party into the 2017 UK general election, but resigned after UKIP's vote share fell from 12.6% to 1.8% and the party failed to win any parliamentary seats. Henry Bolton was elected to succeed Nuttall in September 2017. In January 2018, UKIP's NEC passed a motion of no confidence in Bolton, following controversy about his personal life. Bolton refused to step down, which triggered an emergency general meeting. This meeting was held on 17 February 2018, and those"
"Following Carswell's resignation, Roger Lord, UKIP's nominated candidate for the 2015 general election, declared that he still wanted to stand, although the UKIP National Executive Committee voted to select Carswell. Two early opinion polls showed Carswell with a substantial lead. At the by-election on 9 October 2014, Carswell was successful, with a substantial majority of 12,404 votes over his nearest rival. In the 2015 general election, however, this figure was reduced to 3,437 votes. In the 2015 UK general election, Carswell won the seat of Clacton with a majority of 3,437 – down from a majority of 12,404 in the"
"Below are UKIP's results for the Westminster by-elections in which it competed for each period. Source: Source: Source: Source: Source: Source: Source: There are four UKIP members of the Welsh Assembly 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. Source: Source: 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"
"and European Parliamentary elections as a UKIP candidate: UK Parliament elections European Parliament elections Paul Nuttall Paul Andrew Nuttall (born 30 November 1976) is a British politician who is MEP for North West England and was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from November 2016 to June 2017. Nuttall was a Conservative Party candidate in a council election in Sefton before joining UKIP in 2004. He became deputy leader of UKIP in November 2010 and the party's spokesperson for education, life skills and training in July 2014. He was elected party leader in the 2016 leadership election. A"
"to the Conservatives, citing personal disagreements with the party's policies in the region. On 10 September, it was announced that all three UKIP councillors on Plymouth council had changed party to the Conservatives. At the 2017 convention, Henry Bolton, a former soldier, was elected as leader. Two of the leadership candidates beaten by Bolton left the party: fourth place John Rees-Evans announced plans to found a new political party, called Affinity, while second place Anne-Marie Waters set up a new political party, called For Britain. In January 2018, it became known that Bolton had left his wife and embarked on"
"been included in the poll Mark Reckless would have topped the vote.' On 27 September 2014, Reckless defected to the UK Independence Party at its party conference in Doncaster, and announced his resignation in order to seek re-election at a by-election. He became the second Conservative MP in the space of a month to defect to UKIP, the first being Douglas Carswell. In a speech delivered to the conference, Reckless claimed that the Conservative leadership was 'not serious about real change on Europe', and that 'Britain could be better'. Although he won the by-election on 20 November 2014 as a"
"House in November 1999 because of the House of Lords Act. The Lord Pearson of Rannoch and The Lord Willoughby de Broke both defected to UKIP in 2007, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords since the departure of Lord Grantley and Lord Bradford. The Lord Pearson of Rannoch went on to serve as party leader from November 2009 to September 2010. On 18 September 2012, The Lord Stevens of Ludgate joined UKIP, having sat as an Independent Conservative since his expulsion from the Conservatives in 2004. In Autumn 2018, Lord Willoughby de Broke left UKIP,"
"the UKIP candidate (compared with 9.5% nationwide). Turnout has risen to date, from 49.7% to 56.1% of electors. Blackley and Broughton (UK Parliament constituency) Blackley and Broughton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its creation in 2010 by Graham Stringer of the Labour Party.. He was first elected in 1997 for the former Manchester Blackley and prior to this was Leader of Manchester City Council. The City of Manchester wards of Charlestown, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, and Higher Blackley, and the City of Salford wards of Broughton and Kersal. Formed following the Boundary"
"2014 by-election. Carswell won UKIP's only seat in the general election. Carswell is a Eurosceptic, and supported Vote Leave – advocating leaving the EU – during the EU referendum in June 2016. In March 2017, Carswell quit UKIP to become an independent MP for Clacton, leaving UKIP with no MPs in Parliament. On quitting the party he said, ""Now we can be certain that that <nowiki>[</nowiki>Brexit<nowiki>]</nowiki> is going to happen, I have decided that I will be leaving Ukip."" On 20 April 2017, following the announcement on 18 April 2017 by Prime Minister Theresa May of a snap UK general"
"only MP, Carswell, left the party to sit as an independent. The next month, Reckless also left UKIP. In the 2017 local elections, UKIP lost all 145 seats it was defending, but gained one on Lancashire County Council. These results led several prominent former UKIP members to call for the party to be disbanded. In the following 2017 general election, UKIP received fewer than 600,000 votes and won no seats. The following day, Nuttall resigned and Steve Crowther took over as interim party leader. On 24 July 2017, UKIP lost its majority on Thanet council when Councillor Beverly Martin defected"
"2015 General Election, Carswell kept his seat in Clacton but Reckless lost Rochester to the Conservative Kelly Tolhurst. UKIP had 3,881,129 votes (12.6%) and was the third largest party on vote share, yet it won only one seat. Because of this, there were calls from some in UKIP for a voting reform in favour of proportional representation. Carswell quit the party in March 2017 to become an independent, leaving UKIP without any MPs in the Commons. In the 2017 election, a Snap election initiated by PM Theresa May and scheduled for 8 June 2017, UKIP got 1.9% of the votes"
"Paul Nuttall to become the next leader of UKIP. Broughton is a former semi-professional wrestler and now works as a supervisor for Tesco. He also has a keen interest in football and tennis. In 2018, Broughton confirmed he had resigned from UKIP. Phillip Broughton Phillip Broughton is a British politician who stood for the UK Independence Party in Hartlepool at the 2015 and 2017 General Elections. In July 2016, he announced that he is running to be leader of UKIP in the UK Independence Party leadership election, 2016 following the resignation of Nigel Farage. Broughton said the party needed to"
"won 24.7% in 2014 so the largest swings were 20.5% from UKIP to Labour & 19.6% from UKIP to Conservative. Respect also did not stand after winning 10.2% in 2014. Brian Morris was the incumbent, having been elected for UKIP in 2014 and left the party to stand as an independent campaigning for the separation of Keighley, Ilkley & Shipley from Bradford in October 2016. There was no UKIP candidate this time so the swing from UKIP to Labour was 26.5%. If the swing is calculated comparing the vote for Morris as an Independent against the vote for Morris as"
"gain the seat. This time, Broughton finished in 3rd place with 4,801 votes with just 11.5% of the overall vote. Broughton also achieved the second best UKIP result in the country. On 1 August 2016 Broughton stood to be the leader of UKIP after Nigel Farage stepped down. Where he campaigned and took part in leadership hustings. Broughton finished fourth out of five, receiving 8.6% of the overall vote, retaining his deposit and finishing ahead of Elizabeth Jones. In the leadership election that occurred after Diane James stood down as leader after 18 days, citing to personal issues, Broughton endorsed"
"Lidia Gouniakova, another Russian national, accused him of having been unfaithful to her too, reportedly having left her for Tatiana Smurova, who became his third wife. Henry Bolton (British politician) Henry David Bolton (born 2 March 1963) is a British politician who was the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 29 September 2017 to 17 February 2018. He is a former British Army lance corporal, Territorial Army officer and police officer who has worked in a number of roles related to border management strategies. He became UKIP leader after winning the party's 2017 leadership election, and gave himself"
"councillor Jim McMahon, leader of Oldham Council; and Chris Williamson, former MP for Derby North. McMahon won the selection, reportedly with 232 votes against 141 for Azam in the final round, after the elimination of East and Williamson. UK Independence Party (UKIP) came second in the constituency at the 2015 general election and fielded a new candidate, John Bickley, who was runner-up at the by-election held in 2014 in the neighbouring constituency of Heywood and Middleton. Others talked about as potential candidates were Paul Nuttall, the UKIP deputy leader, and Steven Woolfe, both MEPs for North West England. The Conservative"
"the total number of councillors. The Liberal Democrats remained the second largest party by total seats and percentage vote, while the Labour Party had the largest net gain of five seats. UKIP won representation on the county council for the first time, winning three seats. The number of Independent councillors rose to two, while both the Green Party and People Against Bureaucracy saw their only councillors re-elected. In July 2016 UKIP group leader Alan Preest defected to the Conservatives, claiming that the party lacked a purpose following the EU Referendum. He was followed shortly thereafter by UKIP councillor Colin Guyton,"
"in which he made offensive remarks about fellow UKIP members. Imelda Clancy also left the party later that month, and the two sit as ""Independence Group"" members on the council, reducing UKIP's strength to ten seats, though they remain the second-largest party ahead of Labour on nine seats. A third independent councilor (originally elected as Labour) joined the Independence Group in January 2015. 2014 Basildon Borough Council election The 2014 Basildon District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Basildon District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and"
"to 48%. Farage was voted UKIP leader in the September 2006 leadership election, and led them in the 2009 European Parliament election in which his party won the second-highest number of votes and seats after the Conservative Party. He resigned as leader later that year in order to concentrate on the 2010 general election. In late 2010, he was voted leader for a second time after the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. Farage led UKIP in the 2014 European Parliament election, in which his party won the most votes and seats; this was the first time since the December"
"negative impact of immigration on local communities and public services. The June 2016 referendum produced a 51.89% majority in favour of leaving the EU: the accomplishment of UKIP's ""raison d'être"" raised questions about the party's future. The loss of its MEPs would result in the loss of its primary institutional representation and a key source of its funding. After the referendum, Farage resigned as UKIP leader. Diane James was elected as his successor, but resigned after 18 days and left the party in November 2016. Farage's former deputy, Paul Nuttall, was elected leader that month. In March 2017, the party's"
"any seats on the island's council. In August 2013, he came third behind Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth in the National Assembly for Wales by-election for Ynys Môn. With John Bufton stepping down as MEP in 2014, Gill was selected as UKIP candidate number one for Wales in the European Parliament Election and held on to the seat for the party. During the UK Independence Party Wales Conference on 6 December 2014, Nigel Farage, then-Leader of UK Independence Party, announced that Gill would be the Leader of the Party in Wales. During the 2015 general election campaign, Gill represented UKIP"
"of the Assembly Education Committee. During an investigation by a UUP Disciplinary Committee, McNarry was suspended. The new leader Mike Nesbitt commented publicly that he was unlikely to offer McNarry the UUP whip on completion of the suspension. McNarry left the UUP and joined UKIP in October 2012, becoming UKIP's first MLA and first ever Member of a devolved Assembly in the United Kingdom. In 2013, McNarry was elected unopposed as the UKIP Leader in Northern Ireland. In the May 2014 local government elections, under McNarry's stewardship, UKIP gained two new local councillors in the region, taking the total number"