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Polls close in Clacton byelection where Nigel Farage faces slew of fringe candidates
Longest ballot in UK voting history features likes of Count Binface and Howling Laud Hope alongside Reform leader
Polls have closed in Clacton, where thousands of residents in the Essex seat voted in a ballot featuring Nigel Farage and a range of novelty and fringe candidates led by Count Binface.
The Reform UK leader resigned as the MP for Clacton at the start of July and forced a byelection in an attempt to address complaints over a deepening scandal about gifts he received.
He is expected to face a formal investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog, which was opened in May after the Guardian revealed he had received a £5m personal gift from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire, in April 2024.
Voting closes in Farage by-election battle with bin-wearing comedian
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is widely expected to win the by-election. (AP: Richard Pelham)
Voting has closed in a by-election in Britain's Clacton constituency after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage resigned amid scrutiny of a $9 million donation from a crypto billionaire.
Mr Farage is widely expected to win the seat, but his main opponent is a comedian wearing a bin on his head named Count Binface.
The wait for a result is expected to take several hours, in part because of the complexities of counting votes for a whopping 34 candidates.
Polls have closed in a by-election in the British constituency of Clacton where Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is hoping to regain his parliamentary seat.
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Waleed Aly:The salvation of democracy is a joke. Why Binface was absurdly appealing next to Farage
By the time you get around to reading this, there’s a good chance Nigel Farage will have won or will be about to win the Clacton byelection. If so, he will have seen off the intergalactic threat of Count Binface, a serial candidate with a bin on his head, who claims to be an alien space warrior from Sigma IX. Thus closes a circus of a chapter in British politics whose meaning, for now, is strangely ambiguous. I’ve spent much of this campaign trying to figure out if Binface represents the salvation of democracy or its nadir. Now it has concluded, I wonder if my confusion stems from the fact that I was asking a question Binface had no interest in answering.
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