Pictures have shown the mass scale by-election celebration from Nigel Farage and associates ahead of his eventual victory.
The Reform UK leader was pictured alongside fellow colleagues at an estate in Great Oakley where there a number of marquees and even a Ferris wheel.
According to a post on X from GB News political editor, Christopher Hope, there were live band, bars, fire pits, marquees present at the self-proclaimed "Farage Fest".
He also said: "It is one of the more bizarre political events I have ever been to."
'This is a political Glastonbury in the middle of Essex!'
GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope is live from 'Farage-Fest', saying it is 'unlike any political event he has ever been to', as he takes viewers on a walkabout of the venue while counting begins in Clacton. pic.twitter.com/T01K8zYZ10— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 13, 2026
Mr Farage was announced as victor this morning just after 6am with the results confirming he had been re-elected, beating competitors such as Count Binface and Laurence Fox.
He won with 22,239 votes, with Count Binface in second place on 9,455 votes. Mr Farage secured a 12,784 majority, 62.82 per cent of the vote.
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This is up from his 8,405 vote majority, 46.2 per cent, when he won at the 2024 general election. The result was declared shortly after 6am.
Turnout was 44.37 per cent, down by just over 14 per cent.
A total of 32 of the record 34 candidates lost their deposit.
Mr Farage told supporters at an all-night “Farage-fest” event organised by Reform he would not be attending the count: “I’m not scared of these people, far from it.
“But I’m damned if I’m going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all that I’ve tried to fight for, and you’ve tried to fight for, and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies, and I will not sadly be attending the count.”
Mr Farage was due to make what was billed as a “major speech” in Clacton at 10.30am on Friday, but Reform cancelled it, saying he had “already commented on the expected result of the by-election”.
In his speech, Mr Farage said, hours before the result was formally declared: “The verdict is now in, and it is a convincing, overwhelming win with more votes than we got in the general election of 2024.”
He added: “Today the voters in Clacton have stuck up two fingers to the entire political establishment.”
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