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The '''Leader of the UK Independence Party''' is the most senior member of the ] (UKIP), a political party founded on 3 September 1993. The party's first leader was its founder, the historian ], who resigned in May 1997. Its longest-serving leader was ], from September 2006 to November 2009 and again from November 2010 to September 2016.

The party currently has an interim leader, Piers Wauchope, elected by the party's National Executive Committee on 11 June 2019 after ]'s leadership term ended on 2 June.

After an Emergency General Meeting and membership ballot on whether incumbent leader ] should be replaced, Batten became interim leader on 17 February 2018.<ref name="batten1" /> On 14 April 2018, ] as the leader of UKIP.<ref name="batten2" />

==Role==
All registered political parties in the United Kingdom require a leader, under the ]. According to Part VII of the ] constitution, the party leader is voted for by postal ballot by all paid-up party members "in good standing". The winner is the candidate with the ] of votes cast. If there is only one valid candidate for the position, they are elected without the need for a ballot.<ref name=const/>

While the default term length is four years, the leader can obtain an extension of up to a year if there is an imminent General or European Parliament election; this must be approved by at least two-thirds of the 12-person National Executive Committee (NEC).<ref name=const>{{cite web |title=The Constitution |url=https://www.ukip.org/ukip-page.php?id=07 |publisher=UK Independence Party |accessdate=26 October 2018}}</ref>

If at least nine NEC members endorse a ] in the leader, an Emergency General Meeting (EGM) will be called.<ref name=const/> When the leadership becomes vacant unexpectedly, the NEC has fourteen days to name an interim leader who exercises all leadership functions until the next leadership election.<ref name=const/>

The leader has the power to name a Deputy Leader of their own choice and assign them whatever duty they choose.<ref name=const/>

==History==
{{main|History of the UK Independence Party}}
] led UKIP from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016]]
] historian ] founded the UK Independence Party on 3 September 1993, having established the ] organisation two years earlier. He resigned after the 1997 general election and was replaced by ], who became one of its first three ] in the ]. He was voted out by the party's National Executive Committee in January 2000 after the party split into two camps, one backing him and the other supporting chairman ], also an MEP.<ref>{{cite news |title=UKIP votes leaders out |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/615180.stm |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=22 January 2000}}</ref> ] was succeeded in October 2002 by ], a former ] ]. Under his leadership, UKIP took 16.2% of the votes and 12 seats at the ], and he chose not to run for a second term in 2006.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Dave |title=West: UKIP flower fades |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/5059062.stm |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=8 June 2006}}</ref>

The ] resulted in Farage winning the post; he pledged to expand UKIP from a ] into one that would fill the "enormous vacuum in British politics" by picking up votes from former Conservatives.<ref name=farage1>{{cite news |title=Farage elected new UKIP leader |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5336126.stm |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=12 September 2006}}</ref> In late 2009, he resigned in order to concentrate on winning the ] seat of ] from the ], ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Farage to step down as Ukip leader to concentrate on ousting Speaker |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/04/nigel-farage-resigns-bercow-ukip |accessdate=26 October 2018 |agency=Press Association |date=4 September 2009}}</ref> ] was ]; he resigned within a year and ] with 60% of votes cast.<ref name=farage2>{{cite news |last1=Sparrow |first1=Andrew |title=Nigel Farage returns as Ukip leader |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/nov/05/nigel-farage-elected-ukip-leader |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=5 November 2010}}</ref> Under Farage, UKIP had its greatest success in 2014 when it won the most votes and seats in the ], the first party outside ] and the Conservatives to do so in a national election since the ] in the ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kirkup |first1=James |last2=Swinford |first2=Steven |title=Ukip storms European elections |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10855972/Ukip-storms-European-elections.html |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=25 May 2014}}</ref>

Since the British public voted to ] in the ], UKIP's vote share has declined and the party has had frequent changes in leadership.<ref>{{cite news |title=Has the general election 2017 finished Ukip? |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/june2017/2017/06/has-general-election-2017-finished-ukip |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=New Statesman |date=8 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Payne |first1=Sebastian |title=The party might at last be over for Ukip |url=https://www.ft.com/content/cff64e3c-ff84-11e7-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=The Financial Times |date=22 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Harris |first1=John |title=Ukip may have collapsed, but where it led others will follow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/23/ukip-collapsed-online-activism-immigration |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=23 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rathi |first1=Akshat |title=The party that birthed Brexit has sunk into total oblivion |url=https://qz.com/1002422/uk-election-the-rise-and-fall-of-ukip-the-party-that-birthed-brexit/ |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=Quartz |date=9 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Goodwin |first1=Matthew |last2=Cutts |first2=David |title=Why UKIP’s collapse matters |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-general-election-ukip-why-collapse-matters-conservative-majority-theresa-may/ |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=Politico |date=28 April 2017}}</ref> Sked, Holmes, Farage, James, Nuttall, Crowther and Bolton have all since left the party.

==List of leaders==
{| class=wikitable
!Picture
!Name
!Term
!Deputy
|-
|]
|]
|3 September 1993 – May 1997
|]
|-
|]
|]<br>{{small|Acting}}
|6 August 1997 – September 1997
|
|-
|]
|]
|September 1997 – 22 January 2000
|]
|-
|]
|]
|22 January 2000 – 5 October 2002
|]
|-
|]
|]
|5 October 2002 – ]
|]
|-
|]
|]<ref name=farage1/>
|] – ]
|]
|-
|]
|]<ref>{{cite news |title=Ukip elects Lord Pearson of Rannoch as leader |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/nov/27/lord-pearson-ukip-leader |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=The Guardian |agency=Press Association |date=27 November 2009}}</ref>
|] – ]
|]<br>]
|-
|]
|]<ref name=farage2/>
|] – ]
|]
|-
|]
|]<br>{{small|Elect}}{{refn|group="N" |name="legalleader" |Diane James won the ] but resigned 18 days later, before officially taking office. As the relevant paperwork required by the ] was not completed before her resignation, Nigel Farage legally remained the leader of UKIP during James's "tenure."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/05/nigel-farage-says-he-may-technically-still-be-ukip-leader |title=Nigel Farage declares himself interim Ukip leader |newspaper=The Guardian |author1= Heather Stewart |author2=Rowena Mason |date=5 October 2016 |accessdate=28 November 2016}}</ref>}}
|] – 4 October 2016
|
|-
|]
|]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37561065|title=Nigel Farage steps back in at UKIP as Diane James quits|work=BBC News|date=5 October 2016|accessdate=18 October 2016|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201165038/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37561065|archivedate=1 February 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|5 October 2016 – ]
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|-
|]
|]<ref>{{cite news |title=Paul Nuttall elected as UKIP leader |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38125432 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=28 November 2016}}</ref>
|] – 9 June 2017
|]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Proctor |first1=Kate |title=My appointment proves we’re a diverse party, says Ukip’s gay deputy leader |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/my-appointment-proves-we-re-a-diverse-party-says-ukip-s-gay-deputy-leader-a3407451.html |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=London Evening Standard |date=29 November 2016}}</ref>
|-
|]
|]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharman |first1=Jon |title=Election latest: Ukip appoints interim leader after Paul Nuttall's resignation |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-new-interim-leader-paul-nuttall-resign-election-latest-steve-crowther-farage-a7782996.html |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=The Independent |date=9 June 2017}}</ref><br>{{small|Acting}}
|9 June 2017 – ]
|
|-
|]
|]<ref>{{cite news |title=Who is new UKIP leader Henry Bolton? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41444432 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=29 September 2017}}</ref>
|] – 17 February 2018
|] (resigned January 2018)<ref>{{cite news |title=UKIP crisis as top figures quit and tell leader Henry Bolton to go |url=https://news.sky.com/story/ukip-deputy-margot-parker-quits-and-tells-leader-henry-bolton-to-go-11217970 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=Sky News |date=22 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
|]
|]<ref name=batten1>{{cite news |title=UKIP members vote to sack embattled leader Henry Bolton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43098646 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=17 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=batten2>{{cite news |title=UKIP's leader announces plans to quit on day he is confirmed |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43769408 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=14 April 2018}}</ref>
|17 February 2018 – 2 June 2019<ref>{{cite tweet|user=GerardBattenMEP|number=1135142814294183936|title=My term as UKIP Leader ends today|first=Gerard|last=Batten|authorlink=Gerard Batten|date=2 June 2019|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref><br>{{small|Acting: 17 February 2018 – ]}}
|]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Angus |title=Hull-based MEP Mike Hookem lands top interim role as deputy UKIP leader |url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-based-mep-mike-hookem-1272075 |accessdate=26 October 2018 |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=27 February 2018}}</ref> (resigned 24 May 2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48394651|title=Hookem quits as deputy UKIP leader to run for leadership|author=|website=]|publisher=BBC|date=24 May 2019|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref>
|-
|]
|]<br>{{small|Interim}}
|11 June 2019 – 9 August 2019
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|-
|]
|]
|10 August 2019 – present
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|}

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.ukip.org}}

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