Clacton in the 2024 United Kingdom general election

2024 United Kingdom general election in Clacton

← 2019 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 Decrease 44.0 pp Increase 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 7 previous attempts.[1] As "figurehead of the country's populist right", Farage brought Clacton to international attention.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Nigel Farage wins Clacton as Reform UK takes four seats". BBC News. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ Picheta, Rob (17 June 2024). "A US-style migration debate is taking over Britain's election - with a Trump acolyte leading the charge". CNN. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  3. ^ Safdar, Anealla (25 June 2024). "'Britain's on its knees': The broken UK town backing Nigel Farage". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  4. ^ Ducourtieux, Cécile (2 July 2024). "UK general election: Nigel Farage campaigns on fear of migrants as he looks to win first Commons seat". Le Monde. Retrieved 3 July 2024.

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