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Elmo Eclipses Count Binface as U.K.’s Election Star

ELMO LOVES YOU!

Elmo is staying in Sesame Street, not heading to Downing Street but a perennial tradition of Britain's democracy remains steadfast: comedy candidates.

A photo illustration of British satirical candidates Count Binface and Elmo.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty

Some of Britain’s comedy political candidates proved to be only slightly more of a joke than the actual governing party on Thursday night.

The incumbent Conservative Party was crushed

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