GB News are broadcasting live from the Gorton & Denton count, here. Live BBC coverage here.

The final counts included:

Green Party 14,980

Reform UK (Matt Goodwin): 10,578

Labour: 9,364

Lib Dems: 653

Official Monster Raving Loony Party: 159

Advance UK (leader – Ben Habib) 154

The Green Party’s female candidate arrived late for the count, but what can you expect of a plumber?

Reform UK did very credibly, while the vote is catastrophic for Labour. This was Labour’s 38th safest seat in the country at the last general election.

It would appear that the Green appeal to Muslim voters over Gaza has been a vote-winner with Muslims and younger voters, including many students. Many Labour voters, expecting Labour to lose, voted Green tactically to keep Reform UK out – tactical voting of the sort we can expect to pose a problem for Reform UK at the next general election.

George Galloway, leader of the Workers’ Party of Britain, which didn’t field a candidate for fear of splitting the vote, urged people to vote Green.

There seems to have been a troubling amount of “family voting” at the polling stations, I think we’ll hear more about that.

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