Original sentence: Soon after, populist right-wing party UK Independence Party (UKIP) started to gain popularity, although labelled as far-right by a minority of some critics, is not generally considered so
Edited sentence: By March 2014, Ofcom and the BBC awarded UKIP "major party status" for the 2014 European Elections.In the 2013 county council elections across England, the party achieved its best ever local government result, polling an average of 23% in the wards where it stood, and returning 147 elected councillors.Soon after, populist right-wing party UKIP started to gain popularity, although labelled as far-right by a minority of some critics, is not generally considered so.The party won seats in every region of Great Britain, including its first in Scotland, the first time in over a century that a party other than Labour or Conservatives won the most votes in a UK-wide election.UKIP received the greatest number of votes (27.49%) of any British party in the 2014 European Parliament election and gained 11 extra MEPs for a total of 24