Video: Nick Clegg: Lib Dems won 'stunning victory' in Eastleigh Ukip came second, followed by the Conservatives, then Labour. Speaking in Eastleigh after the Lib Dem win and flanked by Mike Thornton, the Deputy Prime Minister said that the result was a "stunning victory" for the party. He claimed their opponents had thrown everything at them but they "held their nerve" and had "overcome the odds."