Nigel Farage and Count Binface among 34 candidates in Clacton by-election

Members from The Official Monster Raving Loony Party among record number of candidates for parliamentary contest

Count Binface and Nigel Farage will face off in the Clacton by-election. Pictures: PA

Nigel Farage will face a record 33 rival candidates in the by-election he triggered in protest at media and parliamentary scrutiny of his finances and backers.

The main Westminster parties are boycotting the Clacton by-election, dismissing it as a stunt by the Reform UK leader, leaving joke candidate Count Binface and actor-turned-politician Laurence Fox as his highest-profile opponents.

Farage wanted the contest to be a “people versus the establishment” showdown but he is now facing opponents including three from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and an array of independents.

Tendring District Council said a total of 34 candidates are standing in the August 13 by-election, which is believed to be a record for a parliamentary contest.

The council said the previous record is understood to have been 26 candidates, set at the Haltemprice and Howden by-election in July 2008, which was triggered by Tory David Davis in his own seat and similarly ignored by the main Westminster parties.

The candidates for the Clacton constituency are:

• Joseph 77 (Independent) 
• Adham Alkhatip (The Forward Party) 
• Count Binface (Count Binface Party) 
• Nick The Incredible Flying Brick (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party) 
• Tony Cane (Independent) 
• Woke Trump Carrzee (Independent) 
• William Stuart James Clouston (Social Democratic Party).
• Rees Cowne (Independent) 
• Glenn Charles Cummings (Independent) 
• Martin Davies (Freedom Alliance – Real People, Real Alternative!) 
• Andy Erlam (Independent) 
• Nigel Farage (Reform UK)
• Attieh Fard (Independent)
• Laurence Fox (The Reclaim Party) 
• Tony Francis (Independent) 
• Robin Green (Independent) 
• Abi Hookway (Independent) 
• Howling Laud Hope (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party) 
• Stephen Richard Ingram (Independent) 
• Amy Morris (Independent) 
• Derrick Norbert Morris (Independent) 
• Michael Noel O’Keeffe (Independent) 
• Martyn OBrien (Independent) 
• Nick Pelas (Independent)
•  Ketankumar Pipaliya (UK VOICE safer and stronger UK) 
• Daniel Pocock (Independent) 
• James Ransley (Consensus Party Candidate) 
• Gerry Smith (Independent)
•  Kai Stephens (British Democrats) 
• John Stevens (Rejoin EU) 
• Baron Von Thunderclap (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party) 
• Pamela Walford (Independent) 
• Marcus White (Everyone is God Party) 
• Marc Wilkinson (Independent)