Every claim, cited
Citation numbers across this site point to the list below. Compiled 8 July 2026, updated 20 July 2026; the by-election picture may change — check the dated sources.
- Count Binface — official website (lore, slogan, past campaigns, Clacton response)
- countbinface.com/handdryergate
- Wikipedia: Count Binface
- Wikipedia: Lord Buckethead
- Electoral Commission register: Count Binface Party (PP12685)
- UK Parliament election results: Count Binface Party
- Democracy Club: Count Binface
- ITV News, 7 Jul 2026: Farage resigns as Clacton MP
- ITV News, 8 Jul 2026: What happens next in the Clacton by-election
- Count Binface on X, 7 Jul 2026 (declaration statement)
- LBC: Count Binface’s policies for the Clacton by-election
- Al Jazeera, 7 Jul 2026: Farage resigns amid funding scandal
- PoliticsHome: Labour and Tories refuse to stand in Clacton
- Count Binface Lifts The Lid: “The BBC gets the taste for price-capped croissants”
- Evening Standard (via Yahoo): 2024 London mayoral manifesto
- Binface Shop (50% of proceeds to Shelter, per Count Binface Lifts The Lid)
- ITV News Anglia, 10 Jul 2026: Poll date of 13 August confirmed for Clacton by-election
- PollCheck: Clacton by-election tracker (writ, timeline, declared candidates)
- LBC, 8 Jul 2026: Count Binface "quietly confident" ahead of Clacton run
- Al Jazeera, 9 Jul 2026: "Not Nigel Farage" — who is Count Binface?
- Tendring District Council: Statement of Persons Nominated & Notice of Poll, 17 Jul 2026 (PDF — the official candidate list)
- Tendring District Council, 10 Jul 2026: Date set for Clacton by-election (registration, postal and proxy deadlines)
- Tendring District Council, 17 Jul 2026: By-election candidates confirmed
- ITV News, 17 Jul 2026: Farage to compete with record field in Clacton (34 on the ballot)
- Al Jazeera, 18 Jul 2026: UK by-election sees record 34 candidates
- Ipsos, 10 Jul 2026: British public more likely to prefer a Count Binface win in Clacton than a Farage one (fieldwork 8–9 Jul, 1,000 GB adults — national preference, not constituency voting intention)
- The London Economic, 16 Jul 2026: Count Binface's Clacton pledge card
- Count Binface on X, 17 Jul 2026: "Lights out and away we go! #Clacton"
- NPR, 10 Jul 2026: The intergalactic warrior who could upend Britain's strangest election