Polls have closed in a by-election in England that pit hard-right leader Nigel Farage against perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a poll dismissed by some residents as a "farce."
Farage, who triggered the vote by resigning the parliamentary seat he had held since 2024 over an investigation into his finances, was up against Binface and dozens of other fringe candidates in the Clacton constituency of eastern Essex.
