Result being announced in Clacton by-election - Farage not at declaration, but says he has won

Ever since the last by-election in 2014 - when the then Conservative MP Douglas Carswell resigned and joined Nigel Farage’s then political party of UKIP - Clacton has been one of the corners of the country used to the political cameras' gaze. A year later, in 2015, the seat was the only constituency UKIP won in a general election. It then became a backdrop of Brexit with the leave campaigns coming to the town and posing with the pier in photo ops. The seat returned to the Conservative fold in the general elections of 2017 and 2019 with Giles Watling elected comfortably as the MP. In 2024, Nigel Farage chose to stand in Clacton where his old political party, UKIP had succeeded.

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