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In the 2023 United Kingdom local elections, Reform UK won six seats out of the 8,519 up for election [291] and averaged 6% of the vote in the wards where it stood. [292] The six seats won were all in the City of Derby, whose new council proceeded to elect Reform Derby leader Alan Graves to the position of Mayor for 2023/24. [293]
Party Name Constituency Office held whilst in Parliament Year elected Seat held by party since Defeated by Party Conservative: Bim Afolami [6]: Hitchin [n 1]: Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Bold denotes that either the majority of votes went in favour of Brexit or the percentage of votes was enough to retain the election deposit (5%). *denotes that the candidate was originally selected as a Brexit Party prospective parliamentary candidate in a Conservative seat but after those candidates were pulled, they eventually stood as independent candidates.
Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system — in which the candidate with the highest number of votes in each area wins — makes it unlikely that Reform could win many seats.
With most of the votes now counted, results indicate Reform UK has won at least five seats in the House of Commons, a comparatively strong showing in Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral ...
Reform UK leader and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage took aim at Britain's governing Labour Party on Friday, telling supporters his right-wing party was gaining voters disaffected with the ...
Reform UK achieved the third-highest vote share at 14.3%, with over four million votes, which won it five seats, and the Green Party of England and Wales won four seats; both parties achieved their best parliamentary results in history. In Wales, Plaid Cymru won four seats.
Alongside Reform, the Liberal Democrats, Greens, and other small parties won more than 40% of votes on July 4, but only 17% of seats in Parliament due to the country’s first-past-the-post system ...