Topic: Reform UK

Nigel Farage got his seat back. The Reform UK leader won the Clacton by-election he triggered himself, taking 22,239 votes to 9,455 for Count Binface, the satirical candidate who campaigns with a trash can on his head. But the night ended strangely: Farage skipped the official vote count early Friday and canceled his planned victory speech, while Binface walked away with the best result of his six-election career.

A man in a black bodysuit, silver cape and metal trash can is the leading challenger to Nigel Farage in this Thursday's special parliamentary election in Clacton-on-Sea, England. Count Binface, a self-described "intergalactic space warrior, leader of the recyclons from the planet Sigma IX," is polling better than he ever has, and the race Farage designed as an anti-establishment statement is instead being upstaged by a satirical candidate promising to nationalize Adele.