UKIP saved 99 deposits in this election:
Constituency Percentage
Arundel & South Downs 5.7
Aylesbury 6.8
Banbury 5
Basildon South & Thurrock East 5.9
Bedfordshire Mid 5.1
Bognor Regis & Littlehampton 6.5
Bootle 6.1
Boston & Skegness 9.5
Bournemouth East 6.9
Bournemouth West 7.2
Braintree 5
Bromsgrove 5.7
Buckingham 17.4
Bury St Edmunds 5.1
Camborne & Redruth 5.1
Cambridgeshire North East 5.7
Cambridgeshire North West 8.3
Chichester 6.8
Christchurch 8.5
Cleethorpes 7.1
Cornwall South East 6.2
Denton & Reddish 5.5
Derbyshire North East 5.6
Devon Central 5.3
Devon East 8.2
Devon North 7.2
Devon South West 6.2
Devon West & Torridge 5.5
Dorset North 5.2
Dudley North 8.5
Dudley South 8.2
Forest Of Dean 5.2
Great Grimsby 6.2
Halesowen & Rowley Regis 6.4
Hampshire North West 5.2
Hartlepool 7
Harwich & Essex North 5.2
Havant 5.9
Hazel Grove 5.1
Herefordshire North 5.7
Hornchurch & Upminster 5.3
Horsham 5.1
Hull East 8
Hull West & Hessle 5.4
Huntingdon 6
Lichfield 5.7
Maldon 5.1
Mansfield 6.2
Mole Valley 5.1
New Forest East 5
New Forest West 5.9
Newcastle-under-Lyme 8.1
Newton Abbot 6.4
Norfolk Mid 5.5
Norfolk North 5.4
Norfolk South West 6.2
Orkney & Shetland 6.3
Peterborough 6.7
Plymouth Moor View 7.7
Plymouth Sutton & Devonport 6.5
Poole 5.3
Ribble Valley 6.7
Rochford & Southend East 5.8
Rother Valley 5.6
Rotherham 5.9
Runnymede & Weybridge 6.5
Sittingbourne & Sheppey 5.4
South Holland & The Deepings 6.5
Southport 5.1
Spelthorne 8.5
St Ives 5.6
Staffordshire Moorlands 8.2
Staffordshire South 5.5
Stoke-on-Trent North 6.2
Stone 5.3
Suffolk Coastal 5.7
Suffolk South 7.1
Suffolk West 6.4
Surrey East 6.9
Surrey Heath 6.3
Telford 5.9
Thanet North 6.5
Thanet South 5.5
Thurrock 7.4
Tiverton & Honiton 6
Torbay 5.3
Totnes 6
Walsall South 8.4
Warley 6.8
Waveney 5.2
Wealden 6
Wentworth & Dearne 8.1
Wigan 5.7
Wiltshire South West 5.5
Witham 6.5
Wolverhampton South East 7.7
Worcestershire Mid 6
Worthing East & Shoreham 6.2
Worthing West 6
North Thanet UKIP candidate Rosamund Parker got 2,819 votes in the general election which was 6.5% – an increase of 2.6% from the last election figures for UKIP which were: North Thanet 1,689 3.9%
Trevor Shonk UKIP South Thanet got 2,529 votes 5.5% – an increase of .73% over the 2005 figures of 2,079 4.78%
A supporter sent this letter to ITV
Dear Sirs,
In many ways the leader’s political debates have been interesting and informative, to a point, but what I do object to is that you could conclude that there are only three political parties standing in this General Election. This is grossly unfair to all the other parties who get so little airtime to argue their point. The sole interest of the media is centered and concentrated on the largest three parties. As there seems so little difference between these three how refreshing it would be to get other views and ideas apart from these tired front runners. The smaller parties will always remain in this situation due to the lack of publicity they receive, which in turn precludes them from getting the financial backing which the other parties have. This is entirely the fault of the media for not being more even handed. The unfairness of their coverage makes my blood boil for all the dedicated workers who toil for no reward but a core belief in their party’s principals and policies.
Please explain to me the reason for your negativity in not portraying a more rounded debate of this coverage which I am sure the general public deserve and need to be informed of what other ideas and opinions are on the table for the voting public. This biased coverage of our democratic system is nothing less than a disgrace.
Maggie Carter
Ramsgate resident
Three weeks ago, at the start of this airlessly make-believe election campaign, I predicted that it would unfold under four giant shadows – issues which would barely be mentioned because the positions on them of the three parties making up our “political class” are virtually identical. So it has turned out.
First, under the heading “Don’t tell the voters we face bankruptcy”, I discussed the barely credible scale of our government over-spending. Within four years – when our National Debt, on the Government’s own admission, will be £1.4 trillion – it will cost every household £3,000 a year on average, or £60 a week, just to pay the interest on that debt….
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The only memorable feature of that dismal TV charade by the three party leaders on Thursday was that it included under “foreign policy” the subject of Europe. This perpetuated the pretence by the main parties that membership of the European Union is somehow just another aspect of foreign affairs, when, of course, the EU is in important respects the true government of this country
Peter Hitchens on how not to vote…
This time, I think and hope that what I say might actually have some effect on an unusually close Election. And it is this.Please do not vote Tory. It will have the opposite result to the one you intend.
Britain’s Justice and Home Affairs Opt Ins a page about British Opt Outs from the EU, by the Tax Payer’s Alliance, an excellent organisation.
Find information about UKIP immigration policy here.