# Nigel Farage beats Count Binface to win back his Parliament seat

https://mins.news/en/item/21854

- The Associated Press, 2026-08-14 05:37 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://bit.ly/4x0kig0

> Nigel Farage defeated comic candidate Count Binface, who wore a trash-can costume, on Friday to regain a Parliament seat he had quit a month earlier, triggering the widely mocked special election.

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