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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Nigel Farage
|name= Nigel Farage
|image= Nigel Farage of UKIP.jpg
|image= Farage MP.PNG
|birth_date=Nigel Paul Farage <br/> April 3, 1964 (age 59)
|birth_date=Nigel Paul Farage <br/> April 3, 1964 (age 59)
|birth_place=[[Farnborough]], [[Kent]], England
|birth_place=[[Farnborough]], [[Kent]], England
== Career ==
== Career ==
[[File:Nigel Farage of UKIP.jpg|thumbnail|Nigel Farage when he was a UKIP member.]]
Farage was a founding member of UKIP, having left the [[Conservative Party]] in 1992 after the signing of the [[Maastricht Treaty]]. Having unsuccessfully campaigned in European and Westminster parliamentary elections for UKIP since 1994, he won a seat as MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament Election—the first year the regional list system was used—and was re-elected in 2004 and 2009.
Farage was a founding member of UKIP, having left the [[Conservative Party]] in 1992 after the signing of the [[Maastricht Treaty]]. Having unsuccessfully campaigned in European and Westminster parliamentary elections for UKIP since 1994, he won a seat as MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament Election—the first year the regional list system was used—and was re-elected in 2004 and 2009.