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Juggling With Eggs
Juggling With Eggs
@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

The best start to a Friday… #GreenParty ‘s Hannah Spencer wins #GortonAndDenton byelection…and pushes #Labour who had had a comfortable majority there into third place.

“Rather than winning narrowly, the [Green party] won 40.7%, enough to put them as much as 12 points ahead of second placed #Reform. It represented as much as a 27.5 point increase on the party’s share in 2024.
Labour, who had not hitherto lost an election in the area since 1931, fell into third place.”

Professor Sir John Curtice

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Juggling With Eggs
Juggling With Eggs
@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

But the bad news from Professor Sir Curtice continued on the stale dead old parties:

“The [ #Labour] party’s 25.4% of the vote represented a near halving of their 50.8% of the vote in 2024 and the 13th biggest ever fall in the party’s support in a byelection.

Meanwhile, the #Conservatives lost their deposit with just 1.9% of the vote, their worst ever byelection result.”

This is bad news for both #Starmer and #Badenoch. There is a seismic shift away from both their parties.

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