Farage regains Clacton seat in widely mocked by-election as Binface trails

Nigel Farage reclaimed his Clacton parliamentary seat in a heavily mocked by-election, winning about 63% of the vote to Count Binface’s roughly 27% on a 44% turnout. The race, featuring 34 candidates after major parties boycotted, saw Farage skip the official declaration amid claims of a threat to disrupt the count. The victory comes as a parliamentary standards probe into an undeclared 2024 donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire could still force him from Parliament, while Binface—his satirical space-alien persona—earned his best result to date.