Reform UK leader Nigel Farage arrives to vote in the Clacton by-election at a makeshift polling station in a primary school in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. (AFP pic) CLACTON-ON-SEA: Counting started Thursday in an English by-election pitting hard-right leader Nigel Farage against a joke candidate nam»»»

CLACTON-ON-SEA, Britain - Counting started on Aug 13 in an English by-election pitting hard-right leader Nigel Farage against in a vote dismissed by some residents as a “farce”. Farage, who triggered the vote by he had held since 2024 over an investigation into his finances, is up against Binface a»»»

WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE, United Kingdom: Polls opened on Thursday (Aug 13) 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 polit»»»

Polling stations opened around 7:00 am and will close by 10:00 pm, with counting beginning immediately and a result expected early Friday. Voters in eastern England are casting their ballots this Thursday for a by-election triggered triggered by Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform UK part»»»

Voters cast their ballots on Thursday in a local English election pitting Brexit backer Nigel Farage against a collection of independents, jokers and single-issue candidates,including a comedian dressed as a dustbin, in a test ​of opposition ‌to the Reform UK leader's brand of populist politics. »»»

LONDON, Aug 13, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Voters in eastern England head to the polls Thursday for a by-election triggered by hard-right Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, but amid a boycott by mainstream parties his main rival is a joke candidate called Count Binface. The traditional parties have shunned the c»»»