Clacton in the 2024 United Kingdom general election

2024 United Kingdom general election in Clacton
4 July 2024
Clacton constituency
  First party Second party Third party
 
Lab
Candidate Nigel Farage Giles Watling Jovan Owusu-Nepaul
Party Reform UK Conservative Labour
Popular vote 21,225 12,820 7,448
Percentage 46.2% 27.9% 16.2%
Swing New 44.0 pp 0.6 pp
MP before election

Giles Watling
Conservative

 Elected MP

Nigel Farage
Reform UK

An election took place in the Essex constituency of Clacton on 4 July 2024, as part of the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Nigel Farage, the newly re-appointed leader of Reform UK and the former leader of the UK Independence Party, won the election with 46.2% of the vote and successfully entered Parliament after seven previous attempts. As "figurehead of the country's populist right", Farage brought Clacton to international attention.

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