The British PM’s Labour Party came in third place in a constituency it’s held since the 1930s
The UK’s Labour Party has lost a parliamentary seat it had held for almost a century to the Green Party in an embarrassing defeat for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Labour is projected to lose more seats in upcoming local elections.
The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer won Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election with 40.7% of the vote, with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK coming in second with 28.7%, and Labour finishing third with 25.4%, according to results announced on Friday morning.
The result is a striking upset for Starmer. Labour has held Gorton and Denton – a constituency located in the Greater Manchester area – since 1935, and won more than half of the vote there in 2024.
Labour won a 174-seat majority in 2024’s general election, sweeping Starmer into office in the party’s third-best election in its history. Now, the initial wave of good will toward the prime minister has evaporated.
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