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NIGEL Farage has announced he will force a by-election in Clacton amid growing pressure over his personal finances after he took donations from a convicted criminal. The Reform UK leader called an emergency press conference on Tuesday as he announced that he would quit as the MP for Clacton and contest the race in a bid to clear his name, as he has maintained he’s “done nothing wrong”. Farage presented his bid to retain the Clacton seat as a way to give his constituents the final say on his political future. He won the seat in the 2024 General Election after his eighth time trying to get elected as an MP. READ MORE: What are the odds on the Clacton by-election? The Reform leader’s announcement comes after a growing scandal over his personal finances as he faces an investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner over a £5 million gift from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher Harborne. It is also claimed that his long-term aide Cottrell had paid for staff before the General Election, potentially breaking MPs’ rules by failing to declare the financial support. Cottrell, an aristocratic banker who previously served eight months in a US prison for fraud, provided financial benefits and has continued to give the Reform leader use of a five-storey Georgian townhouse he rented near Buckingham Palace, The Sunday Times reported. Announcing the by-election, Farage said: “I thought about it hard and I've decided today, today I will resign as a member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea thereby forcing a by-election, which should happen I hope in short order. "Now I've decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions, this will be a people versus the establishment by-election." He added that he would be putting his name forward to stand, saying: “I will fight to win, I will fight to continue the political revolution that Reform has started.” What was the Clacton polling in the last election? Farage won the Clacton seat in the 2024 General Election, as voters took to the polls across the UK on July 4. He received 46.2% of the vote share, securing 21,225 ballots. The Conservative candidate, Giles Watling, came second in the election race, securing 27.9% of the vote share with 12,820 ballots. The Tories lost a whopping 44.0% of the vote share, largely to Reform. READ MORE: Zack Polanski calls out Nigel Farage over Clacton by-election amid donations scandal Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul came third with 7448 votes, 16.2%, followed by the Liberal Democrat’s Matthew Bensilum with 2016 votes, 4.4%, and the Greens in fifth with Natasha Osben receiving 1935 votes and a share of 4.2%. Independent candidate Tony Mack secured 317, UK Independence Party’s Andrew Pemberton got 116 votes, Climate Party’s Craig Jamieson received 48 and Heritage Party’s Tasos Papanastasiou got 33 votes. The turnout for Claton in 2024 was 58.4%, down 1.7% from the 2019 General Election.