This is a list of the British Reform UK Party general election manifestos.
2024 General Election Manifesto
UK General Election Date: Thursday, 4 July 2024
Reform UK Party Leader: Nigel Farage
Reform UK Party Manifesto 2024 PDF (PDF file opens in new tab)
2024 Reform UK Manifesto
Manifesto tagline: Britain Needs Reform and Reform UK Needs You
Reform UK won five seats. Reform UK was the new name of the Brexit Party. Reform UK had 609 candidates in 2024 and received 14.3% of the vote across Great Britain. In 2019, the Brexit Party had 275 candidates because it did not stand in the 317 seats previously won by the Conservatives. In 2019, the Brexit Party had averages of 5.1% in the seats where they had candidates.
Reform UK’s 5 seats in 2024 were its first to be won at a general election. All were gained from the Conservatives. Three of these gains were in the East of England, and two were in the East Midlands.
Reform UK’s vote share was lowest in London (8.7%) and highest in the North East (19.9%).
Reform UK Stats: 609 Candidates, 4,117,610 Votes, 14.29% Vote Share, 5 MPs Elected.
Of note Nigel Farage became an MP for the first time having spent over two decades as an MEP in the European Parliament. Prior to the Brexit vote, he was an MEP for South East England from 1999 until the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020.
2019 General Election Manifesto
UK General Election Date: Thursday, 12 December 2019
Brexit Party Leader: Nigel Farage
Brexit Party Manifesto 2019 PDF (PDF file opens in new tab)
2019 Brexit Party Manifesto
Manifesto tagline: Contract With The People
The Brexit Party was newly registered with the Electoral Commission in February 2019. Following a decision not to stand in any of the 317 seats won by the Conservatives at the last election, it had candidates in 275 constituencies. Across the UK it won 2.0% of the vote, which was an average of 5.1% in the seats where they had candidates.
The Brexit Party did not win any seats at its first General Election. It had been the biggest party at the European Parliament elections earlier in 2019, when it won 26 out of 73 seats and 32% of the vote. The party did not contest seats where Conservative MPs were standing for re-election.
The party came second in three seats: Blaenau Gwent, Barnsley Central and Barnsley East. It won 2% of the vote across the UK.
Where the Brexit Party stood they gained the following share of the vote.
375 seats had no Brexit Party candidate.
164 Brexit Party candidates gained under 5% of the vote.
96 Brexit Party candidates gained between 5% – 15% of the vote.
12 Brexit Party candidates gained between 15% – 25% of the vote.
3 Brexit Party candidates gained between 25% – 35% of the vote.
Brexit Party Stats: 275 Candidates, 644,257 Votes, 2.01% Vote Share, 0 MPs Elected.
The debate on Brexit was a prominent feature of the 2019 General Election campaign. Over half (57%) of voters put Brexit in the top three important issues which decided their vote, according to Lord Ashcroft Polls. Of the fifty-eight seats that switched to Conservative, the party which gained an overall majority, fifty-five were constituencies which had voted Leave in the 2016 EU Referendum.
