British voters want Count Binface to beat Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election
Binface would win if all Brits could vote in the by-election
British voters want Count Binface to beat Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election today, a new poll has revealed.
The poll by More in Common think tank has found that 37% of British voters would vote for the parody candidate with a rubbish bin on his head over Nigel Farage.
Meanwhile, the poll found that just 32% of Brits would want the Reform leader to win the contest.
Unsurprisingly, the data splits down party lines. A majority of progressive voters back Count Binface, while 53% of those who voted Conservative in 2024 and 87% of 2024 Reform voters would prefer Farage to win.
Nonetheless, based on these numbers, if all British voters were able to vote in Clacton, Binface would win a head-to-head with Farage.
Despite the popularity of Count Binface at a national level, a recent constituency-level poll carried out by Survation predicted that Farage will win the election with 73% of the vote.
Farage stepped down as the MP for Clacton on 7 July amid mounting scrutiny over the undeclared £5 million donation he received from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.
The Reform leader said that he triggered the by-election because the “people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions”, and not “the Establishment”.
In an interview with Mehdi Hasan, Count Binface pointed out that whatever result Farage gets today, it is “proof” he has made “a false equivalence between a democratic mandate from Clacton and the results of a parliamentary inquiry into his financial affairs”.
Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward
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