LABOUR WINS PARLIAMENTARY SEAT- For Holborn and St Pancras constituency with 12,292 votes
The Prime Minister’s Labour Party won an election for the parliamentary seat vacated by former leader Keir Starmer today, fending off a strong challenge from the left-wing Green Party in a boost for the British prime minister.
Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of the local council, won the by-election in the central London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras with 12,292 votes, compared with 8,928 for Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader.
Labour had been widely expected to hold the seat, as Burnham seeks to repair his party’s damaged appeal among core voters in big cities after two bruising years in government under Starmer.
The result will be a blow to Polanski, a 43-year-old former actor and hypnotherapist, who has promised to make his party “an eco-populist” movement and draw support away from Labour — a strategy that had been working until Burnham came to power.
