UKIP narrowly miss by-election win in Amersham

UKIP had another encouraging result yesterday in a by-election in Amersham, Bucks.

This is the first time UKIP have stood in this ward and the results speak for themselves:

Lib Dem	286	(30%)
Conservative	282	(29%)
UKIP	252	(27%)
Labour	127	(13%)

If it wasn't for the Tories splitting the UKIP vote, Michael Hurley would have won the election quite convincingly.