He increased Ukip support in his constituency by 240 per cent and outpolled the party’s deputy leader – but Jack Sen, the party’s former candidate for Lancashire West, is also a “national socialist”.
Voices from the left and right are calling for a move to Proportional Representation. What difference would it really make?
The Ukip leader Nigel Farage accepts the resignation of his economics spokesman Patrick O’Flynn, whose criticism of him sparked days of party in-fighting.
Ukip and the Greens were part of a cross-party delegation delivering a petition to Number 10 calling for electoral reform. Despite winning almost 4 million votes, Ukip have just one Westminster seat.
Eurosceptics are rejoicing at the prospect of finally getting an in/out referendum. But current polling suggests the vote might not go their way.
Gary Gibbon
On the ground in North Warwickshire with voters, I hear Labour’s messages were less targeted than the Tories’ and made no headway with Ukip deserters.
Despite winning nearly four million votes in the general election, Ukip seems intent on tearing itself apart. Here’s our guide to who’s said what about who.
Senior figures are taking public swipes at “snarling, thin-skinned” Nigel Farage and the party’s finances are being dragged through the papers, so how did Ukip get here?
The UK Independence Party’s only sitting MP has ruled himself out of the running to be the party’s next leader after the resignation of Nigel Farage.
Gary Gibbon
Three party leaders have now resigned within an hour and a half, but Ed Miliband’s must be the biggest emotional shock to the individual concerned.
Small parties are likely to feel short-changed after getting millions of votes but very few seats in parliament. Do we need a different system?
After failing to win the South Thanet seat, Ukip leader Nigel Farage admits to disappointment on a professional level but says that on a personal level he has “never felt happier”.
Gary Gibbon
If the exit poll is right, the Tories will have lost something like only 10 seats or so to Labour. And as the results come in we may find they may have pinched some off Labour.
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
The porkies have come thick and fast from all sides during this election campaign. What are the biggest fibs FactCheck has unearthed?