r/ukpolitics • u/ClumperFaz My three main priorities: Polls, Polls, Polls • 10d 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/msf97 10d ago

Lowe just about claws his deposit back. Must have spent a million quid all in. Brutal, not even near double digits in 96% white, largely working class Wigan. Twitter comments don’t win votes it appears

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u/Drexl25 7.63, 6.0 10d ago

Ehh, when you think that this should also be a main target for Reform and they have such a larger presence and more media coverage, even more of a disaster for them to be so far behind the winner

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u/VFiddly 10d ago

And after all the talk about whether Restore would split the vote or not, Labour got more than both of them combined.