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1st LD: UKIP leader fails to gain South Thanet seat from Conservatives: BBC

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nigel Farage, leader of the Eurosceptic right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), failed to win the seat in South Thanet from the Conservative Party during the general election, the BBC reported Friday.

South Thanet is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of British parliament.

"I congratulate the Prime Minister. He has secured a Tory majority something no-one thought was possible," Farage said after the result announced.

Farage said earlier that he would quit if he failed to win.

Earlier Friday, UKIP member Douglas Carswell won a seat in Clacton, Essex, becoming the party's first Member of Parliament (MP) in the Commons.

According to the results from individual constituencies that released at 1125 GMT, British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have already secured 325 seats out of 640 seats. Ten more seats are expected to be declared afterward. Endi