The financial figures cover 2014, a year in which Ukip won by-elections in Clacton and Rochester & Strood as well as a 27.5pc share of the overall vote in the European poll. Mark Reckless went on to lose the Rochester seat in the May 2015 general election, leaving Douglas Carswell as the only Ukip MP. Nigel Farage failed to win the Thanet South seat, prompting his short-lived resignation as leader.