Well, I hope you’re correct about UKIP’s number of first-place finishes, but in a first-past-the-post system “second place” is first loser. And I hope that UKIP’s second-place finishes don’t come mostly in districts where last time the Tories beat Labour but Labour finishes first this time.
Well second place is a loser of course, but it changes the dynamics for the next election.
Interestingly, a great deal of them seats are working class voters in the North in safe Labour seats.