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The odious Moscow dwelling grifter Galloway has wilted again, happily. Back into self imposed exile with him! 🥳

Under the most unpopular prime minister ever yes

No facts please.

It had more to do with the Burnham bounce.

Maybe add Independent given that was nearly 20% last time out but did not stand this time. It would give more insight/balance to the actual result.

Excellent result, glad that Holborn and St Pancras voted for hope and progressive politics.

That is a good result for us. Only losing 4% from the GE while not ideal is far better than most by-elections.

It doesn't include Independants , which took a large % at the GE

Not as close as I was expecting at all.

Am I being stupid, or do those vote change numbers not add up at all? Who did the Greens gain votes from?

Not disagreeing. But if they put any effort at all in to this seat they are not just odious but also stupid. I suspect the result reflects that lack of effort.

Labour voters are way too stupid and lazy to pay attention to what's going on around them.

List is incomplete and misleading, should show 'Other' -18% or so

Greens seemed so confident at the start of the campaign & then I noticed their Twitter comms were quieter. Didn't have the same energy as Gorton and Denton at all. It's a huge swing but it's a small const. full of students & Muslim voters so I'm surprised it's not come down to a few hundred votes

Extend the tapestry with Zak Polanski pulling an arrow or two out of his feet perhaps. That stupid Zionism is Racism motion probably cost a lot of votes.

The low turnout is a problem. If @andyburnham.bsky.social has the courage to push through electoral reform it needs to happen before the next election and include mandatory voting as in Australia. When “None of the above” tops the polls it might wake some of our political parties up.

I saw this coming 🤷🏿

Not as hilarious as Labour losing control of Wales?

Sure but you aren’t a major party, that ship has sailed. You’re a minor coalition partner even if Burnham stacks it.

Its just the reality of how disengaged most people are in local politics. The vast majority of people do not know who their local council leader is.

Yep.

No such thing as a ‘safe seat’ these days for sure, but this still isn’t suddenly a marginal. The drop in Reform, presumably largely to the benefit of Restore, should be keeping Farage up at nights. Marvellous.

Umm....

And if I were richer I’d have a yacht.

They prefer the Green under Lucas because they weren't a threat, they had one MP and weren't close to winning others

The Green Party is a sump for the same angry, far-left ideologues who made Labour unelectable. A schism was inevitable.

Labour the new nasty party

😴😴😴

So, people couldn't vote for them because they were a one-issue party, and now people can't vote for them because they are not a one-issue party. Got it.

Head wobble 😊. That *was* Starmer's seat... until he resigned. Feeling a Major, Major, Major moment.

I think the unspoken end of this sentence would be "in the next GE".

Yes. No doubt they switched to green rather than labour.

On a much lower turnout than the general election, Zack Polanski doubles the number of voters voting Green and cuts the Labour majority to 3,300. In 2017 Labour's majority here was over 30,000. Whoever the Green Party candidate is here next time, they have a real chance of winning this seat.