Among the host of encouraging results, UKIP secured 24.6% of the vote in Wombwell, Barnsley, 32.2% in Storrington, West Sussex and a winning 35.7% in Crockenhill & Well Hill in Sevenoaks where Steve Lindsay was elected as a UKIP Councillor, ousting Labour.
Commenting on the UKIP gain, Party Leader and UKIP's MEP in Kent Nigel Farage declared that "anything is possible in Kent" following the party's by-election victory in Sevenoaks.
Mr Farage, who himself lives in Kent, said the result was a "clear demonstration of how UKIP take support from across the board, not just disaffected Tories."
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