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A special election fills one vacant parliamentary seat between general elections, normally triggered when the sitting member leaves. Nigel Farage, the British politician and Trump ally, just won one.
He will return to the UK parliament after stepping down last month amid a controversy over his personal finances. The vacancy was his own making. Farage's resignation last month is what called the contest into being.
Resigning to trigger a by-election, the British term for this kind of single-seat vote, is an unusual calculation. The member surrenders a confirmed seat and invites every competing party to take it.
Farage made that move while financial questions about him were still live. Voters in his constituency returned him. The win puts him back in parliament.
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