{"id":98413,"date":"2026-08-06T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/98413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:53:08","slug":"clacton-by-election-nigel-farage-and-count-binface-among-record-number-of-candidates-in-crunch-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/98413\/","title":{"rendered":"Clacton by-election: Nigel Farage and Count Binface among record number of candidates in crunch vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nigel Farage<\/a> is set to face an unprecedented 33 rival candidates in the Clacton<\/a>-on-Sea by-election<\/a>, a contest he initiated in protest against media and parliamentary scrutiny of his financial affairs and backers.<\/p>\n

The main Westminster parties have opted to boycott the by-election, dismissing it as a mere “stunt”<\/a> by the Reform UK leader. <\/p>\n

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, Green Party and Restore Britain will not be fielding candidates.<\/p>\n

\"TendringTendring District Council has confirmed a total of 34 candidates will stand in the 13 August by-election (PA)<\/p>\n

Yvette Cooper called the move by Farage a \u201cpolitical tantrum\u201d, while others labelled it as \u201cfake\u201d and a \u201cgimmick\u201d to distract from serious allegations about him. <\/p>\n

This leaves a diverse field of opponents, with satirical candidate Count Binface <\/a>and actor-turned-politician Laurence Fox emerging as his most prominent challengers. <\/p>\n

Mr Farage had envisioned the contest as a “people versus the establishment” showdown, but he now finds himself up against a varied group, including three candidates from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party<\/a> and numerous independents.<\/p>\n

Tendring District Council has confirmed a total of 34 candidates will stand in the 13 August by-election, a figure believed to be a record for any parliamentary contest. <\/p>\n

The previous record, according to the council, was 26 candidates, set during the Haltemprice and Howden by-election in July 2008. <\/p>\n

\"LaurenceLaurence Fox, the former actor who now leads the Reclaim Party, is standing in the by-election. He stood in the 2021 London mayoral election, finishing with 47,635 votes (1.9%) and losing his \u00a310,000 election deposit (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

That contest was similarly triggered by Conservative MP<\/a> Sir David Davis in his own seat and also saw the main Westminster parties decline to participate.<\/p>\n

Ballots will be allocated to 51 polling stations across the constituency, where almost 80,000 electors will be eligible to vote.<\/p>\n

Full list of candidates for the Clacton constituency<\/p>\n

\u2013 Joseph 77 (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Adham Alkhatip (The Forward Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Count Binface<\/a> (Count Binface Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Nick The Incredible Flying Brick (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tony Cane (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Woke Trump Carrzee (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 William Stuart James Clouston (Social Democratic Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Rees Cowne (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Glenn Charles Cummings (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Martin Davies (Freedom Alliance \u2013 Real People, Real Alternative!)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Andy Erlam (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Nigel Farage (Reform UK)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Attieh Fard (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Laurence Fox (The Reclaim Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tony Francis (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Robin Green (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Abi Hookway (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Howling Laud Hope (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Stephen Richard Ingram (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Amy Morris (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Derrick Norbert Morris (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michael Noel O\u2019Keeffe (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Martyn OBrien (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Nick Pelas (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Ketankumar Pipaliya (UK VOICE safer and stronger UK)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Daniel Pocock (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 James Ransley (Consensus Party Candidate)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Gerry Smith (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Kai Stephens (British Democrats)<\/p>\n

\u2013 John Stevens (Rejoin EU)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Baron Von Thunderclap (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Pamela Walford (Independent)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Marcus White (Everyone is God Party)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Marc Wilkinson (Independent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[21351,14,5,6],"class_list":["post-98413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-clacton","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117047722511646621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}