Conservative candidate William Wallace won the election with 1410 votes. the Lib Dems came third with 412 and Labour in fourth place with 224 votes.
Nigel Farage defended Wood earlier this week, accepting the bizarre explanation that he was actually trying to stop his girlfriend taking photos of him "imitating a pot plant".
Wood denied he was an extremist and said the photos had been taken out of context. He also said racist comments attributed to him on Facebook were a result of his page being hacked.
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Alex Wood makes a 'Nazi salute', or tries to grab his phone off a friend
Writing for The Huffington Post UK, Farage said he accepted Wood's defence. "I must confess, I nearly had kittens when I first saw this," he said.
"I’ve looked carefully into this and spoken to Alex, and I believe him when he says that he was angrily trying to take a camera off his girlfriend who was annoyingly taking pictures of him in the pub imitating a pot plant. These things happen - I should know!
"The fact that this is supported by the people who were with him that night suggests that he has been very unfairly treated."
Ukip controversies
Anne-Marie Crampton(01 of09)
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Ukip suspended Crampton who had been due to stand in next week's East Sussex local elections for anti-semitic comments posted online.A Facebook profile in her name posted that the Second World War had been "engineered by the Zionist jews", adding: "Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers."She also made reference to conspiracy theories about the Boston bombings.
Godfrey Bloom(02 of09)
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UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom told Radio Five Live's John Pienaar programme that women of a child bearing age shouldn't be employed because maternity rights are too 'draconian'.TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Godfrey Bloom should know better than to encourage employers to break the law. "Maternity rights are neither draconian nor political correctness gone mad - they are elementary justice for working mothers." (credit:PA)
Winston McKenzie(03 of09)
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Winston McKenzie, UKIP candidate for Thursday's Croydon North by-election, told a local reporter placing children with same-sex couples was "unhealthy". (credit:PA)
Lord Pearson(04 of09)
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Former Ukip leader Lord Pearson was asked by the BBC, during the General Election campaign in 2010 about his party's policy on regulating banks. He said he had not come on the programme to "deal with the minutiae".Asked whether he had read his own manifesto, he confessed: "I haven't remembered it all in detail." (credit:Getty Images)
Chris Scotton(05 of09)
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Scotton, who was due to stand in Leicestershire in Thursday's council elections, is a fan of the EDL on FacebookHe's also a member of a Facebook page called: "I hate [it] when I lose my black friend in the dark." (credit:Facebook)
Dr Julia Gasper(06 of09)
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The UKIP Chairman for Oxford was been removed from her position for comparing homosexuality to bestiality.She wrote on an official Ukip forum that some gay people preferred sex with animals, and wrote: “As for the links between homosexuality and paedophilia, there is so much evidence that even a full-length book could hardly do justice to the subject.” (credit:Ukip)
Maggie Chapman(07 of09)
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Maggie Chapman, a UKIP election agent apparently posted racist jokes on twitter and Facebook - using the word "paki" and suggesting Eastenders was "unrealistic" because it features a family returning to Pakistan (credit:Hope Not Hate)
Paul Whiffen(08 of09)
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Paul Wiffen, the 2010 candidate for Ilford South, posted on the Community Care site. "You left-wing scum are all the same, wanting to hand our birthright to Romanian gypsies who beat their wives and children into begging and stealing money they can gamble with, Muslim nutters who want to kill us and put us under medieval Sharia law, the same Africans who sold their Afro-Caribbean brothers into a slavery that Britain was first to abolish (but you still want to apologize for!)"UKIP said he had been suspended but, following his apology and an inquiry, he was allowed back into the party. (credit:BBC)
Steve Moxon(09 of09)
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Ukip’s candidate in Sheffield, had been dismissed from Ukip in 2012 for stating some agreement with the views of Norwegian mass killer Anders Bering Breivik, despite condemning his actions.He wrote on his blog: That pretty well everyone – myself not excluded – recoiled at his actions, does not belie the accuracy of Breivik's research and analysis in his 'manifesto', which is in line with most scholarship in respect of both Political Correctness and Islam.It is clear that the mass of ordinary people are considered with utter contempt by the government-media-education uber-class across the Western world; this as the result of 'cultural Marxism'. So we are, in effect, 'at war' within our societies over PC, as Breivik claims. (credit:YouTube)