2014 Rochester and Strood by-election

2014 Rochester and Strood by-election
20 November 2014 (2014-11-20)
Rochester and Strood constituency
Turnout50.6%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate Mark Reckless Kelly Tolhurst Naushabah Khan
Party UKIP Conservative Labour
Popular vote 16,867 13,947 6,713
Percentage 42.1% 34.8% 16.8%
Swing New party 14.4 pp 11.7 pp
MP before election

Mark Reckless
Conservative

Subsequent MP

Mark Reckless
UKIP

A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Rochester and Strood was held on 20 November 2014. Incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Mark Reckless defected from the Conservative Party to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and resigned his seat to recontest it under his new affiliation. Reckless retained the seat, polling 42.1% of the vote.

The Conservative Party came second with 34.8%, and Labour third with 16.8%. The other ten candidates lost their deposits, including the Liberal Democrats whose 0.87% vote share was a record low for them, and the lowest ever for a party in government.

This was the twenty-first and final by-election of the 2010–2015 parliament.

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