NOTTS: UKIP fail to win coveted Commons seat as Tory hold Newark

UKIP failed to translate its recent electoral triumphs into a coveted Commons seat as the Conservatives secured a comfortable victory in the Newark by-election.

By The Newsroom

Published 6th Jun 2014, 11:22 BST

Conservative candidate Robert Jenrickwon the Newark by-election. Picture: Lynne Cameron

Robert Jenrick saw off the threat from the Eurosceptics, but the Tory majority was cut significantly from 16,152 to just 7,403.

Ukip surged from a distant fifth in 2010 to second, pushing Labour in to third place, while Liberal Democrat support was obliterated, leaving the candidate trailing in sixth place.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage conceded his party had been defeated while the votes were still being counted, but hailed the result as Ukip’s “strongest ever by-election performance”.

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