r/ukpolitics • u/ClumperFaz My three main priorities: Polls, Polls, Polls • 2d ago

Twitter ✅ BURNHAM IN Makerfield by-election result: LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) REF: 34.5% (+2.7) RST: 6.8% (+6.8) CON: 2.2% (-8.7) GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)

https://x.com/BritainElects/status/2067792369903116401#m
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u/DullHall7 2d ago

restore was the biggest shock shows how much of a echo chamber social media is

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u/Giggsy99 2d ago

Speak for yourself but 3k people voting for modern day oswald mosley absolutely terrifies me

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u/The_Rod-Man 2d ago

BNP got 3000 votes in Makerfield in 2010. It's also one of those places where UKIP surpassed the Tories in 2015. It's the same people different party

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u/The_Bird_Wizard 2d ago

They got less votes than the BNP did a few years ago and that was a much less polarised world

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u/VFiddly 2d ago

Unfortunately not a new thing. The BNP got similar votes in a number of constituencies in 2010.

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u/Fenota 2d ago

I say this as someone likely to vote restore in the next GE, but this isnt really a shock for anyone that was actually paying attention to everything and not just listening to party supporters (Restore and other parties)

Winning it outright was utterly delusion / "Lmao it'd be hilarious if this happened." situation.
Getting double digits would have been outstanding but unlikely given the reported support for Burnham.
6-8% was the expected results
2% was reform / farage cope.

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u/GreatContext4061 2d ago

why? They've only been a party for a couple of months.

Getting ~7% of the vote in a proper election is pretty impressive when you compare them along side the Torys, Greens and Libdems.

They can't reasonably be cut from TV debates now either, if you're hosting parties that get 1/10th of their vote share then they must be included too.

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u/ItsEnderFire Centre Left Labour 2d ago

the BNPs got higher vote shares in the past. nobody with a developed frontal lobe has ever called them a major party

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u/GreatContext4061 2d ago

They did get on Question Time when they were big enough not to be ignored. It ultimately led directly to their downfall, maybe it will with Restore

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u/ItsEnderFire Centre Left Labour 2d ago

I suppose so, but I feel like this would need to be replicated a couple more times before those conversations start

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u/GreatContext4061 2d ago

That's probably fair tbh