Reform UK Party Triumphs In Local Elections

Nigel Farage's party managed to win in constituencies previously electing either Labor or the Conservatives.

In the UK, the pan-European trend of growing popularity of right-wing parties continued. According to the first preliminary results of the May 1 municipal elections, the Reform UK ("Reform the United Kingdom") party, led by British MP Nigel Farage, is winning more seats than all other parties combined.

She emphasizes that Reform UK managed to win in constituencies that had previously picked either Labour or the Conservatives and that experts call this result a serious threat to the two-party system.

More than 1,600 municipal councillors and many mayors were elected across the country. Former Conservative Party national MP Andrea Jenkins, who switched to Reform UK after losing her mandate in June 2024, won the mayoral race in the county of Lincolnshire. In addition, her party won a majority of seats on the county council as well. Commenting on this success, Jenkins said she would put an end to a "softened Britain" and that asylum seekers in the country would have to be housed in tents rather than hotels.

In Runcorn and Helsby constituency, the right-wingers beat Labour by just six votes

Reform UK, formed six years ago from the "Brexit" Party, hopes the current election will "begin the collapse" of the centuries-old two-party political system, which consists of the ruling Labour Party and the Conservative Party in opposition. Its leader Nigel Farage - one of the main actors of "Brexit" - pursues anti-immigration policy and is considered a friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, recalls Reuters.

In the constituency of Runcorn and Helsby in the north-west of England, where recently Labour won a landslide victory, Reform UK won another seat in the House of Representatives, where it now has five seats out of 650. Reuters notes that the right-wing party won by a margin of just six votes, whereas last year in the same region Labor had a margin of nearly 15,000 votes.

Farage called it a "great night" for his party: he said Labor had collapsed in its stronghold and a large proportion of its voters had switched to Reform UK. The mandate was the only one in parliament that was up for re-election: the vacancy came after a Labour MP was forced to resign for battery on a constituent.

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