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Kent Police consider allegation of electoral fraud in Thanet South seat contested by Nigel Farage

Farage was beaten by Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay

Thursday 14 May 2015 06:31 BST

The new Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay (right) after winning the South Thanet seat, beside defeated rivals Nigel Farage and the comedian Al Murray (AP)

Kent Police are investigating a report of electoral fraud in the Thanet South seat where the Ukip leader Nigel Farage failed to be elected.

A spokesperson for Kent Police said: "Kent police have received a report of electoral fraud. Enquiries are on-going."

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1. "Am I tough enough? Hell, yes, I'm tough enough."

Ed Miliband bats away suggestions he would be too weak on the international stage. It likely to go down as one of the quotes we remember this election by.

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2. "If I'm getting lively about it, it's because I feel bloody lively about it."

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3. "Oh it's crats? I thought it was Liberal Demo-cats"

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4. "Brain fade"

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5. "We're a shining example of a country where multiple identities work. Where you can be Welsh and Hindu and British, Northern Irish and Jewish and British, where you can wear a kilt and a turban, where you can wear a hijab covered in poppies. Where you can support Man Utd, the Windies and Team GB all at the same time. Of course, I'd rather you supported West Ham"

David Cameron experienced his own brain fade when he forgot which football team he supported.

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6. “This is a real career-defining … country-defining election that we face in less than a week’s time”

The Prime Minister made another gaffe when he made it sound like the election was all about himself.

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7. “Ed Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to become Labour leader. Now he is willing to stab the United Kingdom in the back to become prime minister.”

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon launched a vicious personal attack on Ed Miliband.

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8. "Ajockalypse Now."

The colourful term used by Boris Johnson to describe a Labour government propped up by the SNP.

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9. “The SNP are openly racist. The anti-English hostility, and the kind of language that is used about and towards English people, is totally extraordinary.”

Nigel Farage launches an attack on Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP party.

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10. "Terms are like Shredded Wheat. Two are wonderful, three might be too many."

David Cameron rules out a third term as Prime Minister.

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Ukip supporters used the hashtag #thanetrigged to voice their suspicions when the results were announced after a long delay at Margate's Winter Gardens, with the hashtag briefly trending on Twitter.

Farage resigned as head of the party after losing out to Mackinlay but later announced he would stay on at the helm when his resignation was “unanimously rejected” by Ukip’s National Executive Committee.

Ukip's chairman Steve Crowther said he was kept on as leader partly due to the Conservative party announcing it was to push forward with plans to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership after winning a majority in the election.