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Could you explain to a USian how a local representative is elected by the whole state?
Are people in northern Ireland and Scotland also voting on this?
They're not, only registered voters in Clacton will be voting in the actual by-election. Someone just conducted a national poll to see what the consensus was over the entirety of the UK, and the results of that poll aren't exactly surprising
The poll was just a quiz, for information or fun.
The actual vote is local only, for the people who live in Clacton.
However, though only a local election, because Farage is also the leader of a political party, the result will also be used politically, to say whether people generally support or reject him and his views, and those of his party.
Because he's a... let's say "controversial figure", then there's some degree of national hope that he'll be defeated and ideally, embarrassed.
This is like if USA Today did a nationwide poll about Mamdani
I get that now. When I read:
I took that to mean the upcoming election was national.
In the US at least we sometimes use poll to refer to election, e.g., "Pokemon GO to the Polls", "Immoral Poll Tax", etc. It is unfortunate.
The UK is split up into 650 areas. During a GENERAL election everybody eligible, and that can be bothered, in a constituency votes for a single candidate, the one with the most votes wins and becomes the MP for that area. 650 MP’s get elected this way.
Nige has resigned as an MP for, uh, reasons so we are having a by-election for just a specific one 650th of the UK.