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Despite the exceptionally favorable pre-election polls UK Independence Party (UKIP) won only one seat in the House of Commons of the British Parliament. As previously announced responsibility for the outcome of the elections took upon himself the leader of the party, Nigel Farage, who on Friday resigned from the position. He does not rule out re-applying for it.

Management UKIP met today to consider the resignation Farage. According to the BBC, a board member of UKIP said that party members do not want to leave the Chair. In this regard Farage persuaded to withdraw his resignation. Steve Crowther, a member of the board of the party, said that in his opinion the election campaign itself was a “great success” and that “in these circumstances” result, which received UKIP, was a “great achievement”.

Defeated by JOW-y

Sam Nigel Farage, lost in the English county of South Thanet Conservative Party candidate Craig Mackinlay. In Thursday’s vote, the head of the UKIP received 16 026 votes, and Mackinlay – 18 848. Farage, also in 2005. Lost in the same district. In all elections, UKIP received nearly 3.8 million votes, but the candidate occupied the second or third place in several districts.

Although the scale of the country UKIP had a lot of support and got nearly 4 million votes, it won only one seat in the House of Commons. The reason was the electoral law and the one-seat constituencies: in many of them representatives of the UKIP narrowly losing to competitors, placing second or third place. – It is time to carry out “true political reforms,” ​​- he said on Friday Farage, criticizing the electoral law in force. In the opposite situation was a Scottish Party of Independence, which despite acquire nearly 1.4 million votes in the House of Commons will have up to 56 representatives.

Elections in the UK and Polish regulations

The great proponent of single-member constituencies is Paul Kukiz. It is through JOW-y did not come to fruition his alliance with Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Kukiz declares that this way of selecting parliamentarians can break the monopoly of the big party. Meanwhile, in the UK elections have shown just the opposite. “UKIP, which in proportional elections would be approx. 90 seats (14 per cent. Support), the system JOW has 1 mandate,” he wrote on his blog Korwin-Mikke, proving its case in a dispute with Kukiz.

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