Farage wins Clacton by-election with 22,239 votes, Count Binface second

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, won the Clacton by-election with 22,239 votes. His nearest rival, novelty candidate Count Binface, finished second with 9,455 votes. The contest was triggered by Farage himself and boycotted by other mainstream parties; he framed it as a "people versus the establishment" vote amid a parliamentary investigation into his finances.