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UKIP 2012 Local Election Results 

Huge thanks and many congratulations to those people who stood as UKIP candidates in the local elections this year. Particular thanks to those who were elected to represent UKIP in their communities and well done to all those people in second place who can turn their positive scores into victories next time around. 

• In 2008 (the comparable point in the electoral cycle), UKIP took 98,000 votes in England.  In 2012 we took over 220,000 – our vote has more than doubled since 2008.

• UKIP fielded 691 candidates this year, up from 450 in 2008.

• The average UKIP candidate had a percentage vote share of 13.8% - our highest ever.

• UKIP won 7 seats in England and 2 in Wales.

• Lisa Duffy took 61% of the vote to win the final seat in Ramsey by a landslide.

• In Rushmoor, two UKIP councillors who had joined from the Conservatives and a third UKIP  councillor was also elected to complete a clean sweep in that ward.

• Piers Wauchope was elected to Tunbridge Wells council, unseating the Leader of the Council in the process.

• UKIP took its first ever councillor (above parish/town council level) in the Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire region when Ron Shepherd was elected to NE Lincolnshire Council.

• Other UKIP councillors elected were in Thurrock, Merthyr and Vale of Glamorgan.

• In Plymouth, UKIP averaged 20.6% of the vote.

• In Sheffield, UKIP achieved a first in a major UK city by taking almost 3,000 more votes than the Conservatives across the city.

• The UKIP vote seemed relatively consistent throughout the country.

• Across the country, 136 candidates finished in second place.  40 of these were in Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire alone.

• 50 candidates took more than 25% of the vote and 105 took more than 20%.

• Our vote was spread evenly throughout the country – with regions varying from a 10.5% average to 16.9%.

• UKIP took 15.3% in Conservative wards, 13.2% in Labour wards and 10.7% in Liberal Democrat wards.

• Churchill ward of Adur Council saw a UKIP candidate lose by just 1 vote.

• Young Independence’s target ward of Gorleston in Great Yarmouth saw Matthew Smith take 34.7% of the vote and miss election by just 48 votes.

• UKIP’s vote averaged 20.2% where there were just 3 candidates on the ballot paper – usually but not exclusively UKIP v Labour v Conservatives.  But when 7 or more candidates were standing, the average dropped to 5.9%.

• UKIP performed better than ever before in the Metropolitan Borough Councils, averaging 11.9% where we stood on those Councils.

• More than two thirds of all UKIP candidates took more than 10% of the vote.

It's now time to look ahead to the elections next year where over 2000 seats are up for grabs. UKIP supporters deserve the chance to vote for a UKIP candidate. If you do not have one in your area already, why don't you volunteer?

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