The UK Independence Party

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Launch year

  • 1993

  • In response to the development of the EU


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Pre-2015 success

  • Had been elected regionally and in the European Plmt


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2015 GE

  • Made an electoral breakthrough

  • 12.6% of popular vote

  • 1 seat

  • Remained on the fringes of the political system, despite taking votes away from main parties


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Impact on larger parties

  • Pushed Cameron to pledge a Brexit referendum in 2016 due to public support for UKIP, and its threat to major parties


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2017 GE - performance

  • Lost seat

  • Vote slumped

  • Nuttall (leader) resigned


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2019 GE - vote share

0.1%

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UKIP in the present day

  • UKIP feels like it doesn’t exist anymore but actually does

  • According to their website “despite the Referendum of 2016 [their] job is far from done and our independence is under continuous attack from Communism, Marxism and Globalism”