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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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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Hopefully a good sign of greater things to come. Please don't let Reform have any part in your government.

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i will be expecting my crack in the mail

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

me and my bestie hunter planning a trip

[–] 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.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

For once some good news, I’ll take it!

[–] Dyno@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Been seeing voxpop clips of reform voters - they have no idea what they're actually voting for 100% of the time, and have circled around reform like flies on shit simply because they've been led to believe that this tiny isle is just too small for all the immigrants.
Doesn't matter that we are a net-import economy that would depend either on degrowth (muh treets!) or increasing immigration, building more houses and actually bothering to integrate immigrant communities

[–] kotak_doost@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

A thank you to all the guitarists at Gorton and Djenton 🎸