Apologies for the lack of an edition for a couple of weeks, both election matters and other matters had been catching up on me. So here is a run down of our results since last time. February 18th Evesham Town Council, Evesham South Ward Con 432 66.6% UKIP John White 217 33.4% Turnout 16.16% Wychavon...

So proposals are flying around this week that the EU should introduce a “family of taxes at a European level”. This at a time when we already have a system of taxation that is far too punishing on the British people. We have income tax, corporation tax, national insurance (employers and employees...

Apologies for the lack of an edition of Election Watch last week: this edition will therefore be covering two weeks worth of contests. But before we get started on that, I just want to say a big warm welcome to the party to Terry Gandy, an independent member of Billericay Town Council who became UKIP’s...

One election contested by UKIP last week, the Lyngford Ward of Taunton Deane Borough Council. Our candidate Charlene Sherriff, contesting a new ward for the party, scored 59 votes, or 6.6% of votes cast. Full result LD  390 43.7% (-0.7%) Con 253 28.4% ( +0.4%) Lab 190 21.3% (-6.3) UKIP 59 6.6% (+6.6) Lib...

Good morning everyone! After our recent successes in attracting councillors of other affiliations to join our party, I am delighted to welcome Councillor Eddie Poole to UKIP. Councillor Poole was elected as a Conservative and represents the Manor Park Ward of Rushmoor Borough Council in Hampshire and...

No elections this week, but several new councillors for UKIP nonetheless. Firstly, David Rogerson up in Corby in Northamptonshire has been co-opted on to Stanion Parish council, representing our first new council seat of 2010! Congratulations to him and best of luck to him in his work on the council. Second,...

Happy new year readers! Its been a quiet few weeks, with Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve both falling on Thursdays, and thus no by elections occurring those weeks. This Thursday however, the 7th, came with mass by elections for Somerton Town council in Somerset. These followed the resignation...

We start off our round-off of last week’s elections with a strong result from Goole Town Council in East Yorkshire. The seat, in the town’s North Ward, was held by Labour, but our candidate James Norie took over 20% of the vote with a score of 172 votes. Full result Labour 358 42% Lib Dem...

Welcome back to Election Watch! Its been a quiet couple of weeks – out of 15 council by elections that took place on the 19th and 26th of November, UKIP didn’t contest a single one. But last week, there was at last a contest in which we had a candidate! Martin Bulmer stood for us in the Ormesby...

Just one by election that we are contesting tomorrow, for the New Romney Ward of Shepway District Council. The other candidates are from the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The result last time, when UKIP didn’t stand, was LibDem 621/620 Con 602/596 so the seat is a marginal. Added to that,...

I’ll be taking a look today at some very impressive scores for the party over the past couple of weeks but first of all I want to congratulate our two newest councillors. Joan Phillips was co opted onto Middleton On Sea Parish Council in West Sussex last week and this week Ramsay Urquhart was elected...

UKIP candidates contested 3 by elections last week. None were ones in which we had stood the previous time, making them all new territory the party is establishing itself in. In the first, for the Hanworth and Birch Hill Ward of Bracknell Forest Borough Council, Jeff Newbold took 139 votes in a six way...

Before turning to look at tomorrow’s by elections, I firstly want to give a warm welcome to the party to our newest elected official. Life long Conservative and Mansfield District Councillor Nick Bennett has joined the party after increasing dissatisfaction with the Tories stance on Europe. He...

This week, former civil servant Sir Thomas Legg, who has been auditing MP’s expense claims from the last several years, will be writing to MPs asking for repayment of sums viewed as inappropriate or excessive or in some cases asking for further information. While the party leaders are falling over...

So, Ireland’s voted Yes on Lisbon. Let’s not kid ourselves here – it’s not exactly surprising. The anti-Europe campaign was up against impossible odds before we even started – we were always going to struggle to convince people that a ‘No’ vote was going to have any serious effect with...

The election of Susan McCaffery to represent the South West Ward on Billericay Town Council last week represents the 15th council seat we have gained as a party since the start of June. Over the last four months, we have performed better than we ever have before in local elections, picking up seats on...