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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Guardian Politics · Leans Left
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will reassure Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for left of British politics
Labour has seen off the Greens to win the Holborn and St Pancras byelection in a result that will reassure Andy Burnham and dent Zack Polanski’s position as a decisive power player on the left of British politics.
The byelection, called after the former prime minister Keir Starmer resigned from the seat in September, was considered a two-horse race between the Labour candidate, Sagal Abdi-Wali, and the Green party leader, Polanski. Abdi-Wali received 12,292 votes, 45% of the vote, to Polanski’s 8,928, 33% of the vote.
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