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Keith, UKIP probably isn't aiming at gaining seats in the uppper house of Parliament at the next election, but only in the lower house.
A lot depends now on individual future candidates making themselves known in their respective constituencies.
Again, MPs are already known within their constituencies, so for them to stand again, they would preferably have something to show what they have managed to achieve while already in Parliament.
In our case Charlie Elphicke. If he managed to get the People's Port through, stop the urbanisation in Whitfield and have a functional hospital at Buckland, and plenty of local jobs up and running as well, he'll have achieved his main pre-electoral promises or, in the case of the P/port, his revised policy (somewhat different to the pre-election promise).
If none of this comes about, however, then why would one expect the Tories to win again in Dover and Deal?
So we must wait and see how it fares, while in the meantime making known our own proposals as an alternative party.