By-Electioncast: Greens Win Gorton and Denton
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, the Green party have won the Gorton and Denton by-election with nearly 41% of the votes, beating Reform into second place and Labour third.
In Newscast by-election tradition, this episode was livestreamed on Friday morning. Adam and Chris are joined by BBC political correspondent Joe Pike and pollster Luke Tryl to discuss the results and what it means for the UK as a whole.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.4 | Hello, newscast tradition has continued. |
| 0:09.0 | We have done a live multimedia analysis extravaganza on Friday morning following a bi-election. |
| 0:15.4 | In this case, the by-election was in Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester, |
| 0:19.2 | and the big story is that it was won by the Greens. |
| 0:23.8 | All throughout this campaign, the polls were suggesting it was a three-way battle between |
| 0:27.9 | Labor, Reform and the Greens. Anyone could have won it, and the Greens won it, quite convincingly. |
| 0:34.8 | And just a bit of backstory before we dive into the analysis, this was this |
| 0:39.1 | constituency that became vacant because Andrew Gwynn had been the Labour MP, he was a health |
| 0:45.1 | minister, he had the party whit withdrawn for a series of offensive WhatsApp messages that emerged, |
| 0:52.0 | and then he retired as an MP on health grounds. |
| 0:55.7 | So that's why there was a vacancy that could be so dramatically fought over in a way that |
| 1:01.4 | reveals a huge amount about where we are in British politics right at this moment. |
| 1:07.7 | So here is the podcast version of the slightly gonzo live stream that we did at 7 o'clock |
| 1:13.5 | on Friday morning reacting to this very dramatic result. |
| 1:17.4 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
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| 1:26.9 | That daddy has to sometimes |
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