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Brexit Party election results

UK political party election results

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ96373935 ↗
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The Brexit Party (known since 2021 as Reform UK) stood in the following UK parliamentary elections and elections to the European Parliament in 2019.

European elections, 2019

The Brexit Party stood in the 2019 European Parliament elections in every regional constituency except Northern Ireland and won the highest number of seats and the most votes nationwide.

Results by regional constituency

The Brexit Party won at least one seat in every region that they stood in. The party topped the poll in the majority of districts in Great Britain.

Gibraltar

For elections to the European Parliament, the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar was a part of the European Parliament constituency combined region of South West England, but votes were counted separately. The table below shows the results of the European Parliament election in Gibraltar.

By-elections, 2019

General election

General election, 2019

In April 2019, party leader Nigel Farage said the Brexit Party intended to stand candidates at the next general election. The same month, he promised not to stand candidates against the 28 Eurosceptic Conservative MPs who opposed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Parliament.

When a general election was held in December 2019, the Brexit Party stood in around half of the total seats in England, Scotland and Wales, campaigning most strongly in the red wall (seats long held by Labour Members of Parliament). The party did not stand in seats won by the Conservative Party in 2017 along with a number of exceptional seats; mainly in London, Scotland and the North East.

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