\u00a0UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP<\/p>\n
By William Mills<\/strong><\/p>\n Labour<\/strong> held \u00a0their Surrey Heath District Council<\/strong>\u00a0 seat where both Labour<\/strong> and Conservatives<\/strong> suffered a big drop in votes cast, albeit with turnover down to 20% from 34% last time. \u00a0In contrast UKIP<\/strong> had a huge 30% surge in votes cast.<\/p>\n Labour<\/strong> also held Oxford<\/strong> Carfax on a 9% turnout which is too low to draw meaningful comparisons from other than UKIP<\/strong> got the same number of votes as the Tories<\/strong>, with \u00a0also the Green<\/strong> vote badly down.<\/p>\n UKIP<\/strong> won their Shepway District Council<\/strong> seat in Kent<\/strong> from the Tories<\/strong> whose vote halved although both the Labour and the Liberal Democrats vote held up.<\/p>\n UKIP’s unstoppable march makes grim reading for the Tories.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,103],"tags":[1164,515],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics-2","tag-by-elections","tag-ukip"],"yoast_head":"\nIn three council by elections held on 4 September Labour held on to two and UKIP had a spectacular win from the Tories in Kent.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
UKIP Wins!<\/h3>\n