UKIP did better in this Parliamentary By-Election (held yesterday at Crewe-Nantwich) than Veritas did at the By-Election in Summer 2005 held at Cheadle - which is near to Crewe (there was no UKIP candidate in the Cheadle By-Election and anti-EU Veritas was the only pro-EU withdrawal party putting up a candidate).
The UKIP percentage share of the vote at Crewe-Nantwich yesterday was about four times the vote that Veritas got at Cheadle:
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