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Posted on 07/31/2026 3:43:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Labour has stormed to a decisive victory in the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection, seizing back areas that recently fell to Reform UK and the Greens.
Labour’s Bev Craig, the Manchester city council leader, will now succeed Andy Burnham and hold one of the most powerful political positions outside Westminster.
Labour won 47% of the vote, with Reform UK way behind on 21% and Greens in third on 12%.
The contest took place under the supplementary voting system, meaning that as no candidate achieved more than 50% then voters’ second preferences were counted.
When voters’ second choices were counted and other parties were discounted, Labour’s share rose to 66.3% and Reform UK’s to 33.7%.
In her victory speech at the Co-op Live in Manchester, Craig urged society to “move away from divisive politics that try pit neighbour against neighbour”.
The scale of the victory is a significant boost for the new prime minister, suggesting Labour can win back both left- and right-leaning voters who deserted the party under Keir Starmer.
It also poses troubling questions for Nigel Farage, whose party has surrendered its year-long lead in the national polls and is in a deepening crisis over questions about its funding.
A poll last month had Labour and Reform UK virtually neck and neck in the battle for the mayoralty.
In the May elections, Farage’s party won more than 100 seats across Greater Manchester, including all but one of the 25 up for grabs in Wigan – the council of Burnham’s new constituency – and 18 out of 19 in Tameside, both once solidly Labour areas.
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Suicidal retards.
“...Craig urged society to “move away from divisive politics that try pit neighbour against neighbour”....”
This is all you need to see to know this is a train wreck in realtime.
Ranked choice voting.
And this is why the communists love it.
“move away from divisive politics that try to pit neighbour against neighbour”.
Manchester- isn’t that the city where the islamist blew himself up after an arianna grande concert, murdering a bunch of kids??
All the polls confirmed this as a safe Labour seat but still the Labour first round popular vote went down from 67% to 47% and Reform from less than 3% to 21%.
This also confirms that our two party system is now Reform vs everybody else.
Idiots. They deserve all of the misery and more.
This is why I don’t feel sorry for the British.
Bloody wankers.
Britain is dead.
Nothing good has ever come from Manchester.
Absolutely nothing.
Stone Roses?
“Labour has stormed to a decisive victory in the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection”
Brilliant ...you morons.
Nothing good has ever come from Manchester.
Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools.
“Ranked choice voting.
And this is why the communists love it.”
And Murkowski.
Thanks for that perspective.
What’s the deal with the Reformers? They can’t seem to get much traction. Are they Reform in name only?
“What’s the deal with the Reformers? They can’t seem to get much traction. Are they Reform in name only?”
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Blowback from Brexit, along with Farange doing dumb stuff.
“Ten years on, it is beginning to look as though the 2016 ballot will be no more successful that the previous exercise in drawing the debate about Britain’s relationship to a close. On average this year, polls that have asked people how they would vote in another referendum have, once those saying don’t know are excluded, put support for being in the EU at a record high of 60%. Just 40% indicate that they would vote to stay out. Since Liz Truss’ ‘fiscal event’ in September 2022 rocked the markets – an experience whose impact on attitudes towards Brexit has been too little appreciated – only one published poll has recorded a majority vote for staying out of the EU. Meanwhile, in response to a separate question, 56% now tell YouGov they are in favour of rejoining the EU, while just 35% are opposed.
In part, the marked change in the balance of opinion has been occasioned by switching among those who voted to Leave in 2016. On average in polls conducted this May, only 72% of Leavers said they would vote to stay out of the EU, whereas 81% of those who voted Remain indicated they would vote to rejoin. However, just as important are the views expressed by those who did not vote in 2016. They back rejoining over staying out by a margin of nearly three (51%) to one (17%).”
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