{"id":444609,"date":"2026-02-25T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:30:10","slug":"gorton-and-denton-by-election-why-every-vote-will-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444609\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorton and Denton by-election: why every vote will count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby was decided by just six votes with Reform UK gaining their first MP in the North West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a 13,000 majority from the 2024 general election, Gorton and Denton is Labour&#8217;s to lose and it will be a significant fall from grace if they do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gwynne&#8217;s decision to stand down last month created a major headache for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who then personally intervened to stop Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham from becoming the Labour candidate. Some in the party fear it&#8217;s a decision he may come to regret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This week, the prime minister attended a rally at a community centre in Levenshulme to show support for Manchester councillor Angeliki Stogia, who won the selection. Chatter among the Labour activists was that Sir Keir&#8217;s arrival meant there must be growing confidence in senior ranks that the party can hang on to the seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year&#8217;s parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby was decided by just six votes with Reform UK gaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-444609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}