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Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Here are the vote counts for the candidates in first, second and third place:

  • Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 votes
  • Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578 votes
  • Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364 vote
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[–] 25 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Very encouraging to see that Reform can be handily beaten in England as well as Wales (Caerphilly).

Disaster for Labour, questions will be asked about Andy Burnham and Starmer will be considering his position. Can't see him budging until after the May elections though.

Well done to Hannah and the Greens.

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Whatever you think of the Greens, we can all be happy that Matt Goodwin is having a bad day. He deserves it, after all.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It'd be nice if this made him re-evaluate some of his choices, but I don't hold out much hope.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Reform, the gracious losers, has been calling the vote fraudulent even before the results were out.

    Goodwin has taken to ranting about a coalition of 'Islamists and woke progressives'. So no, I don't think he's going to take any lessons from this.

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