# Nigel Farage beats Count Binface to regain UK parliamentary seat

https://mins.news/en/item/21892

- France 24, 2026-08-14 06:34 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260814-nigel-farage-beats-count-binface-regain-uk-parliamentary-seat-by-election

> Reform UK leader Nigel Farage defeated comic candidate Count Binface on Friday, retaking the parliamentary seat in Clacton. Farage had resigned the seat a month earlier to trigger the widely mocked by-election, whose outcome was expected.

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