Nigel Farage won the filling election - opposed to the dustbin

As early as 03:00, when the votes had not been counted, Nigel Farage declared himself the winner.

Once the results were announced early Friday morning, it appeared that he had won with 63 percent of the vote, reports Sky News.

His main opponent, the intergalactic garbage can Count Binface, received 27 percent of the vote.

Binface happy despite second place

The satire candidate, who also challenged incumbent Premier Andy Burnham in his local elections two months ago, was happy with his roughly 9,500 votes despite the loss.

- Eight weeks ago I received 95 votes. So against Nigel Farage compared to Andy Burnham, I'm 1,000 times more popular, says Count Binface to the BBC.

Nigel Farage himself was not present at the traditional counting of votes.

Has been called a jerk

The Reform UK party leader resigned as an MP in early July to stand in the subsequent by-election - an action that has been widely questioned and criticized.

The election has been called a stunt and described as an attempt to divert public attention from the parliamentary investigations into multimillion-dollar gifts that are ongoing against him.

None of the major parties Labour, Tories, Liberal Democrats, Green Party or Restore Britain have fielded their own candidates.

The opposition has instead consisted of a record number of political savages, comedians or representatives of smaller parties: more than 30 candidates ran, according to the BBC.

The investigation is being resumed

During Friday morning, the British Parliament announced that the investigation against Nigel Farage will be reopened when he is now once again a Member of Parliament.

- The mountain of dirt and scandals in which he and Reform UK are now entangled has only grown and grown, while he has tried to distract the public by running in a fill-in election against a dustbin, says Labor party chairman Bridget Phillipson to the BBC.

Farage was a driving force behind Britain's exit from the EU and is being touted as a possible future prime minister. His far-right Reform UK party has often recently topped opinion polls or been in second place.