Milns is already a town councillor for Bridlington and won the East Riding seat comfortably.
Bridlington is a working class northern town that has problems with unemployment, health and a dwindling tourist economy - proof, if proof were needed, that UKIP prospers in Labour's post-industrial heartlands just as much as it does in the leafy suburbs and country towns that have traditionally been Tory strongholds.
| Name | Party | Votes | % |
| Malcolm Milns | UKIP | 401 | 30.85% |
| John Copsey | Conservative | 352 | 27.08% |
| Liam Dealtry | Independent | 217 | 16.69% |
| Terry Dixon | Independent | 214 | 16.46% |
| Neil Tate | Independent | 116 | 8.92% |
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