MP candidate

John Stevens

Rejoin EU candidate for Clacton

Clacton parliamentary by-election

Polling day 13 August 2026

Rejoin EU

John Christopher Courtenay Stevens is a British politician active in Rejoin EU. A Conservative MEP from 1989 to 1999, he contested Buckingham in 2010 as an independent against Speaker John Bercow.

Statement to voters

This by-election is not about Nigel Farage’s finances, nor those of his party, which are already subject to ongoing official Parliamentary and wider procedures. Nor is it a joke, for no election is a joke in a democracy. It’s the opportunity for Clacton voters to express a judgement on the one policy pre-eminently advocated by Farage which has actually been implemented: Britain leaving the EU. One which is inflicting enormous, ongoing and accumulating damage upon our politics, our economy, our society and our culture. An historic national mistake caused, in different ways, as much by the Remainers as by the Leavers in the referendum campaign. And a mistake that, ten years later, a clear and growing majority of the British people now recognize as such. Nations, like individuals, who lack the honesty to admit, and the courage to correct, their mistakes, are doomed to compound them. This by-election offers an opportunity for the voters of Clacton, in the most direct and dramatic fashion imaginable, to begin this process of admission and correction, which is so central to our whole national future.

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Previous elections

Runcorn and Helsby (2025)

Rejoin EU· Not elected (129 votes) · 10th / 15 candidates

Kensington and Bayswater (2024)

Rejoin EU· Not elected (486 votes) · 7th / 10 candidates

London Assembly (2021)

Rejoin EU· Not elected (

Buckingham (2010)

Independent· Not elected (10,331 votes) · 2nd / 11 candidates

Clacton constituency

Where John fits into things

Clacton

Constituency

John Stevens

MP candidate

Clacton

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Election

Clacton parliamentary by-election · 13 August 2026