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Constituencies which the Brexit Party contested at the election. In April 2019, party leader Nigel Farage said the Brexit Party intended to stand candidates at the next general election. [3] The same month, he promised not to stand candidates against the 28 Eurosceptic Conservative MPs who opposed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Parliament. [4]
The election was seen as being significant for two new single-issue parties: the Brexit Party (supporting Brexit), and Change UK (supporting the UK remaining in the EU). [ 38 ] [ 7 ] Between the 2014 and 2019 elections, there were many changes to the breakdown of UK members due to defections and changes in affiliation.
The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019. These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit. Only constituencies in Great Britain used party-list proportional representation, as in Northern Ireland the single transferable vote system ...
1 A majority of UKIP MEPs defected to the Brexit Party over the course of the 2014-2019 Parliament, and both UKIP in 2014 and the Brexit Party in 2019 were led by Nigel Farage. 2 The first election held under PR, swing is compared to previous FPTP election. 3 At least one major party was not in the top two.
The Conservative Party put forward the most candidates, standing in 635 of the UK's 650 seats. The Labour Party contested 631, the Liberal Democrats 611, the various Green parties [n 1] (a total of 497), and the Brexit Party 275. [3] The total number of candidates by party is shown below:
All five seats were strongly pro-Brexit, each voting more than 70% to Leave in 2016. Reform finished in third place in terms of votes in East of England, North East England (just 0.4% behind the Conservatives), North West England, East Midlands, West Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber. Most of the seats where Reform UK came second were in ...
The Brexit Party rebranded as Reform UK, and was initially led by Richard Tice in the years preceding the election before Nigel Farage resumed leadership during the election campaign. [40] Edwin Poots took over as the Democratic Unionist Party leader in May 2021 but lasted only 20 days.
For the 2019 general election, the Brexit Party (the former name of Reform UK) did not stand candidates in seats where the Conservative party won in 2017. [114] Leader Richard Tice ruled out a similar arrangement for this election, [115] and stated his party's intention to stand in 630 seats. [116]