Farage beats the bin! – Clacton results unpacked
· 13 min
Episode Farage beats the bin! – Clacton results unpacked
Shock horror: Nigel Farage has won the by-election in Calcton. Although you may be shocked by the scale of the victory.
The Reform leader received 22,239 votes – 1,000 more than his total at the 2024 general election. His main rival, Count Binface – the ‘uniparty candidate’ as Farage says – secured a respectable 9,455 votes, a 26.7 per cent share.
Turnout stood at 44.37 per cent, the constituency’s lowest since 2010, but still pretty good for a by-election and such an unusual one at that.
But the big questions remains: did Farage get what he wanted out of this by-election? Or is this the farcical end to an undignified episode in British politics?
Oscar Edmondson, Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman discuss.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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