{"id":826830,"date":"2026-11-07T06:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/826830\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T06:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:34:20","slug":"andy-burnham-dealt-embarrassing-by-election-blow-but-nigel-farage-cant-cash-in-on-labour-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/826830\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham dealt embarrassing by-election blow \u2013 but Nigel Farage can&#8217;t cash in on Labour collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Jellico, the Liberal Democrats, clinched victory with 1,278 votes. <\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives&#8217; Ashley Fraser finished second, securing 764 ballots. <\/p>\n<p>Xena Dion, of Reform UK, won third place for the party in its debut showing, achieving 521 votes. <\/p>\n<p>Labour candidate Ralph Lynch saw the party slip to fourth, mustering up just 135 votes. <\/p>\n<p>Max Walker, of Restore Britain, finished fifth, securing 106 ballots. <\/p>\n<p>Ace Crz, of the Green Party, came in sixth place after clinching 65 votes. <\/p>\n<p>Susan Stock, independent, won 55 votes as she finished in seventh. <\/p>\n<p>Louise Fielden, also independent, finished at the bottom of the pile in eighth with seven votes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Jellico, the Liberal Democrats, clinched victory with 1,278 votes. The Conservatives&#8217; Ashley Fraser finished second, securing 764&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,33142,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-826830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-membership","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826830","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=826830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}