THE Greens have won the Gorton and Denton by-election in a stunning result.
Hannah Spencer has become the party's fifth MP in parliament, after beating Reform UK, who finished second, and Labour, who came third.
It’s a huge blow for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
Here are the key figures you need to know:
Spencer, a councillor and plumber, emerged victorious with 14,980 votes and a majority of 4402 votes.
Reform UK’s candidate Matt Goodwin got 10,578 votes, with Labour’s Angeliki Stogia trailing on 9364, down from 18,555 in the 2024 general election, when the turnout was similarly high.
Conservative candidate Charlotte Cadden received just 706 votes, with the Liberal Democrats getting 653.
It was a huge win for the Greens but that wasn't the whole part of the story, with a huge change in the vote compared to the election in July 2024.
This is one of Labour’s biggest falls in vote share at a by-election this century, behind only Norwich North in 2009 (where it dropped 26.7 points), Birmingham Hodge Hill in 2004 (27.4 points), Brent East in 2003 (29.4 points) and Rochdale in 2024 (43.9 points).
It now ranks as the sixth largest Labour majority to be overturned at a by-election since the Second World War.
By contrast, the Greens increased their vote share in Gorton and Denton from 13.2% in 2024 to 40.7%.
Their new vote share is just below the bottom end of what the party achieved across the four seats it won at the 2024 general election, which ranged from 41.7% of the vote in Waveney Valley to 56.6% in Bristol Central.
It is also the Greens’ highest vote share in a parliamentary by-election, easily beating their previous best of 10.2% in the contest in Somerton and Frome in 2023.
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