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Greens just crushed New Labour in the Gorton and Denton by-election (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net to c/electoralism@hexbear.net

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The Green candidate won over 40% of the vote. Reform UK came in second place with over 28%. New Labour only got third place with around 25% of the vote, which is about half of what they got for this parliamentary seat in the 2024 elections (i.e. a massive drop in support).

NATOpedia link to the results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Gorton_and_Denton_by-election

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

by-election

I never googled that. I've always assumed it's what we (Americans) would call a special election. Are they basically the same thing?

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Edit

Despite myself - I googled by-election vs special election. The results were such shit - I went to page 2. I checked a site and now I'm a bit confused.

[–] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Yep. It's the same thing.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Google is such shit now. A lot of search engines are, and AI isn't helping 😕

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

A vs B used to be golden. I shouldn't be surprised that it's broken. But c'mon - google - can't at least one thing work?

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Ninja edit. Now that I'm thinking about it - the 2nd page result site I went to might have been AI infected crap.