UKIP’s Mark Reckless has won the Rochester and Strood by-election to become UKIP’s second Westminster member of parliament.
UKIP has a seat in the House of Commons, after Douglas Carswell, the former Conservative MP who defected to UKIP, won back his Clacton seat in an expected, but still convincing by-election victory for his new party.
David Cameron has vowed to win back voters after a disappointing turnout for the Conservatives that came third in the Eastleigh by-elections, with Liberal Democrat Mike Thornton winning the seat.
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