UKIP support crumbles as party loses all its West Sussex seats

UKIP support in West Sussex crumbled as they lost all ten of their county council seats.
Sandra James, UKIP group leader at West Sussex County Council SUS-160425-145228001Sandra James, UKIP group leader at West Sussex County Council SUS-160425-145228001
Sandra James, UKIP group leader at West Sussex County Council SUS-160425-145228001

The official opposition following the 2013 election, the purple party lost its grip in key parts of Arun and Adur.

Leader Sandra James lost her Bourne seat to the Conservatives, while the party suffered defeats in Lancing – where it took control of the parish council in 2016.

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UKIP lost seats in Bersted, Felpham, Nyetimber, Middleton, Bourne, Selsey, Durrington and Salvington, Lancing and Sompting and North Lancing.

It polled last in the new Shoreham South ward, a ward created following the dissolution of Saltings ward, which the party won in 2013.

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