UKIP hopes for second elected MP as polls close
Polls have closed in the Rochester and Strood by-election where the UK Independence Party is hoping to gain its second elected Westminster MP.
MP Mark Reckless's defection from the Tories to UKIP prompted the contest - the second by-election caused by a UKIP defection in just over a month.
Polls suggest he is on course to win the seat for the party, which campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union.
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson reports.
20 Nov 2014