US EditionGreen Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election, pushing Labour into third place
Hannah Spencer secured over 40% of the vote, pushing Labour to third and Reform UK to second in a constituency Labour held since 2005 amid local political scandals.
- On Friday, the Green Party won the Gorton and Denton by-election, with Hannah Spencer, local councillor and plumber, declared winner at the Manchester Central convention centre, marking the Greens' first parliamentary by-election victory and raising their total to five Commons seats.
- The contest developed into a three-way fight among Labour, Reform UK, and the Greens after Andrew Gwynne resigned on January 22, making the seat highly competitive.
- Vote tallies show the Greens on 14,980 with a 26.4% swing from Labour, Reform UK on 10,578, Labour on 9,364, and turnout at 47.62.
- Labour's relegation to third place raises fresh questions about Sir Keir Starmer's leadership, while Zack Polanski, Green leader, gains a political boost and Labour's anti-Reform claim weakens before May's local and devolved elections.
- As Labour endures a second by-election loss since 2024, analysts warn of broader political consequences, with Professor Sir John Curtice saying a 26.2% swing would cost Labour 399 seats and renewing scrutiny of Labour leadership's decision to block Andy Burnham.
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The real lesson to take from Gorton and Denton is for the future of UK democracy
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It's that bad: UK PM Starmer stunned after Green Party nabs Labour's 'safest' seat
"Torn the roof off" British politics UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to reinvent his ailing Labour government with a leftwards pivot after the Green Party captured one of its House of Commons seats via a special election. The result underscores the recent fragmentation of UK politics and the disruption of long-held electoral certainties. It has "torn the roof off" British politics, said Green Party Leader Zack Polanski. Spencer'…
Gorton & Denton: Has Green Party’s historic by-election win changed British politics?
It was supposed to be a three-horse race and too close to call. But that’s not how the Gorton and Denton by-election played out. Hannah Spencer emerged victorious for the Greens with 14,980 votes which was just over 40 per cent of the vote. Reform came second with 10,578. Labour came third in what had been a rock-solid seat for them with just a quarter of the vote. The Tories and Lib Dems were each squeezed to below 2 per cent and they lost thei…
Keir Starmer, the leader of the British Labour Party, is facing an ultimatum from his own party after the Greens won a historic victory in the Gorton and Denton borough by-election. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green councillor, won in a borough where the Labour candidate had last won by 13,000 votes. The defeat was particularly devastating as the area had been a Labour seat for almost a century and the party had been hoping to win even o…
The Green Party won the by-elections of the parliamentary constituency Gorton and Denton — the county of Greater Manchester in the north of England — with Hannah Spencer, who took the seat of the Labour Party in the first victory of the Greens in Westminster's by-elections.The Labour Party, which won the seat with more than 50% of the votes two years ago, was relegated to third place, behind Reforma United Kingdom — the far-right party — an outc…
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