{"id":446491,"date":"2026-02-26T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:43:09","slug":"gorton-and-denton-by-election-polls-open-in-greater-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446491\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorton and Denton by-election polls open in Greater Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Voters in parts of Greater Manchester are heading to the polls for the Gorton and Denton by-election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polling stations opened at 07:00 GMT and will close at 22:00 to decide who becomes the new MP for the constituency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The by-election was triggered by the resignation of now former Labour MP Andrew Gwynne on 22 January on the grounds of ill health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The results of the votes are set to be declared through the night and on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in parts of Greater Manchester are heading to the polls for the Gorton and Denton by-election. Polling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446491","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=446491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}