Farage Wins By-Election But Count Binface Gets 26.7% Of Vote

Nigel Farage is returning to Parliament after a comfortable election win over a satirical candidate dressed as a trash can, but the victory is unlikely to quiet questions about the Reform UK leader's personal finances. Farage got 62.8% of the vote in the constituency centered on the English resort town of Clacton-on-Se

Only two of the 34 candidates secured enough votes to take back their deposit

Nigel Farage beat trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface to regain the seat in Parliament he quit a month ago to trigger the widely mocked special election.

What next for Nigel Farage after beating Count Binface to become MP once more? Imran Mulla on Fri, 08/14/2026 - 09:51 The Reform leader's victory rings hollow, and his political future still hangs in the balance Reform UK leader Nigel Farage poses with a pint at The Ship pub after casting

Nigel Farage secured 63% of the vote against Count Binface's 27%, in a contest that drew 34 candidates after major parties boycotted the race.

NIGEL Farage has retained his parliamentary seat after comfortably beating unlikely rival Count Binface in the Clacton by-election. However, the Reform UK leader didn't attend the official result on Friday morning after the 62-year-old reportedly heard rumours that “an organised campaign” planned to disrupt his victory

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his parliamentary seat on Friday in an election he triggered to bolster his position against allegations of financial impropriety, a strategy that was undermined when his main challenger, a comedian dressed as a trash can, won more than a quarter of the vote.

The self-styled intergalactic space warrior finished second to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Despite winning the Clacton-on-Sea by-election, Nigel Farage did not attend the vote count. The Reform UK leader won with 63% of the vote on a turnout of 44%. Farage will now return as the constituency’s MP The highly publicised by-election was triggered after scrutiny about Farage’s financial backing. He was up agains

Nigel Farage beat trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface on Friday, regaining a seat in Parliament he quit a month ago to trigger the widely mocked special election.

Count Binface came up against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election, with all other major parties pulling out.

Commentary: Mr Farage failed to turn up to the election count which avoided embarassing photos with Count Binface

Mr Farage has won the by-election but did not attend the count over disputed claims of a threat against him

Farage, one of Britain's leading Brexit campaigners, in a highly unusual move, did not turn up at the vote count in the southern English seaside resort of Clacton.

Nigel Farage has beaten trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface in a widely mocked special election

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage beats Count Binface in widely mocked British election  AP News

The Reform UK leader received 22,239 votes in the Clacton by-election, compared with 9,455 for Binface.

CLACTON-ON-SEA, England: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his parliamentary seat on Friday (Aug 14) in an election he triggered to bolster his position against allegations of financial impropriety, a strategy that was undermined when his main challenger, a comedian dressed as a trash can, won more than a quarter

Major parties dismissed it as a stunt and declined to field candidates in the election demanded by Reform UK’s leader, who faces corruption accusations.

Essex police said they did not tell Farage not to attend the count.

However, his main rival Count Binface, a comedian dressed as a trash can, took more than a quarter of the vote.

Nigel Farage regains UK parliamentary seat, fights off Count Binface challenge  Reuters

NewsUK & World NewsNigel FarageThe Reform UK leader retained his seat, as expectedEthan Davies06:08, 14 Aug 2026Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election with 22,239 votes.‌The Reform UK leader was widely expected to retain his seat in Essex as no other major party contested the by-election, although a record 34 can

Nigel Farage reclaims seat in Clacton by-election win  lbc.co.uk

Nigel Farage having a drink on election day yesterday (Picture: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock) Nigel Farage will return as MP for Clacton after sealing a convincing victory in yesterday’s by-election against Count Binface. The result means the Reform leader’s resignation gamble last month – triggering what he pitched as

NIGEL Farage has comfortably won the Clacton by-election ...

The Reform UK leader will not be present at vote count in byelection he has tried to frame as the ‘people versus the establishment’ Nigel Farage set for decisive but arguably empty victory in Clacton Nigel Farage has said he will not attend the Clacton byelection count after advice from Essex police about a plot to e

The votes are in to see who has been crowned the new Member of Parliament for Clacton Constituency. Will it be an intergalactic candidate who wears a bin on his head - or a man who talks utter trash?

Vote counting was under way after an unusual English by-election shunned by mainstream parties, pitting influential hard-right leader Nigel Farage against Count Binface, a man with a rubbish bin on his head.

He’s an intergalactic space warrior from the planet Sigma 9 and a part-time politician on Earth. He also wants to nationalise the singer Adele, abolish the auto-renew function for online subscriptions, cap the price of ice creams and he has a giant garbage bin for a head. Count Binface is a contender in the by-electio

Vote counting has already begun and will continue through the night with a result expected by around 7:00 am local time on Friday.

Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration party Reform UK, had hoped a special election Thursday for his Parliament seat would help quell awkward questions about his finances.

COUNT Binface claimed victory against Nigel Farage today after the polls opened in the Clacton by-election. The satirical candidate said getting re-elected as MP would not save the Reform UK leader from a Commons standards probe. In a post on X, the “galactic centrist” produced a flow chart also claiming victory over t

Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration party Reform UK, had hoped a special election Thursday for his Parliament seat would help quell awkward questions about his finances.

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is set to walk away with the election in Clacton-on-Sea, where he is running without competition from any other mainstream party. His only opposition comes from the costumed, other-worldly joke candidate known as Count Binface — the alter ego of British comedian Jon Harvey. Dressed i

Polls opened Thursday in an eastern England by-election that pits hard-right leader Nigel Farage - often touted as a potential future British prime minister - against perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a vote shunned by the country's main political parties."If Count Binface does well in this election, it's not g

Thousands head to the polls in Clacton as Nigel Farage contests by-election one month after resigning  GB News

Luxon refused to give direct answers to questions regarding his leadership.

Clacton's parliamentary race has it all: Nigel Farage, a man dressed as a trash can, a Union Jack bikini, white nationalist conspiracy theories, and 34 candidates on the ballot.

Satirical candidates are a long-standing tradition in British politics, but few have made as much of an impression as Count Binface. TIME speaks to the novelty candidate ahead of the Clacton by-election.

Calling himself the "only fresh thing on the menu," the trash-talking candidate is now in a prime position for the upcoming vote.

Nigel Farage forced a new election in his parliamentary seat after coming under pressure over his finances. His main challenger is Count Binface, a novelty candidate.

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Who will win the Clacton by-election? Hugo Gye, our Britain political correspondent, visits the seaside town