Four by-elections took place on Thursday, with Labour in action in three of them. In those three contests the Labour vote share bombed by double digits and they lost two seats as a consequence. In Sutton (London), they dropped to fourth place behind both the Tories and Reform, with the Lib Dems holding the seat. Elsewhere in London they were stunned by the Greens, who pushed them out in Haringey.
However, the most remarkable gain came in Tameside, the Greater Manchester borough at the centre of the Andrew Gwynne WhatsApp scandal. Labour's vote share plummeted by almost 30 percentage points as Reform came from nowhere to easily take the seat with almost twice as many votes as Labour.
Teigl, Cyngor Gwynedd (Gwynedd Council)
Pld: 289 (68.6%) -30.4%
Ind: 96 (22.8%) New
Con: 28 (6.7%) New
LDm: 8 (1.9%) New
Pld HOLD (previously elected unopposed)
St Ann's, Haringey London Borough Council
Grn: 1,059 (55.4%) +14.1%
Lab: 589 (30.8%) -21.5%
Con: 83 (4.3%) New
LDm: 70 (3.7%) -2.8%
Ref: 69 (3.6%) New
TUS: 34 (1.8%) New
CLg: 8 (0.4%) New
Grn GAIN from Lab
Sutton Central, Sutton London Borough Council
LDm: 1,291 (55.6%) +17.4%
Con: 327 (14.1%) -10.0%
Ref: 282 (12.2%) New
Lab: 216 (9.3%) -17.4%
Grn: 95 (4.1%) -6.8%
Ind: 84 (3.6%) New
CPA: 24 (1.0%) New
LDm HOLD
Longdendale, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Ref: 911 (46.6%) New
Lab: 489 (25.0%) -28.8%
Con: 242 (12.4%) -9.7%
Grn: 237 (12.1%) -12.0%
Ind: 76 (3.9%) New
Ref GAIN from Lab
Abbreviations
Pld = Plaid Cymru
Con = Conservative
LDm = Liberal Democrat
Lab = Labour
Grn = Green
Ref = Reform UK
TUS = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
CLg = Communist League
CPA = Christian Peoples Alliance
Ind = Independent
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