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Originally Posted by Hugh
Not sure if you can count never having an MP elected in a by-election or General Election in the Labour heartlands as "did very well"...
In fact, they’ve only had 2 MPs elected in by-elections (when Carswell and Reckless resigned), and only 1 in a General Election (Carswell, who has since re-joined the Conservatives).
No UKIP candidate, who wasn’t already the sitting MP previously for another party, has ever won a seat in the House of Commons (no matter how many times (7) NF tried).
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That said - the surge in support for UKIP prior to 2015 cannot be denied. In 2015 - The Tories got 11.3m votes and 329 seats, while Ukip got one seat for 3.9m votes. The voting system in the UK is well and truly knackered, but then so will Democracy itself, if Brexit does not occur.