{"id":220732,"date":"2025-06-28T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220732\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:21:09","slug":"reform-triumphs-to-win-three-by-elections-as-labour-crashes-to-humiliating-triple-defeat-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220732\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform triumphs to win three by-elections as Labour crashes to humiliating triple defeat | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reform has won a trio of by-elections with a stunning surge in the vote \u2013 as Labour crashed to an embarrassing quadruple defeat in the wake of yet another humiliating U-turn<\/a>. A total of 10 council by-elections were held across the country this week, with Nigel Farage<\/a>\u2019s insurgent party storming to victory in three seats it had never even stood in before.<\/p>\n

It gained the Wickford Park ward in Basildon from an independent with 40.6% of the vote and beat the Community First party in Whitworth, Rossendale, by scooping a 47.5% vote share. It also won the Stockbridge and Upper Don ward in Sheffield from Labour, winning 32.9% of the vote while Labour<\/a>\u2019s slumped by 25.2%. That was not the only heavy defeat for Sir Keir Starmer<\/a>\u2019s party \u2013 it lost the Shooters Hill ward in Greenwich, London, to the Greens, with its vote share crashing by 27.7%.<\/p>\n

The Tories<\/a> gained Chorley Council\u2019s Buckshaw and Whittle ward after Labour\u2019s vote share collapsed by 22.4%. Reform<\/a> even knocked it into third, less than 3% behind the Tories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Labour also lost Fountainbridge Craiglockhart in Edinburgh to the Liberal Democrats, albeit only after second-preference votes were counted.<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s vote share also fell in many of the other seats being contested on Thursday, while Reform came second in five seats.<\/p>\n

Party chairman David Bull<\/a> posted on social media site X after the results were revealed: \u201cMore electoral success overnight. Reform is on the march across the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform has won a trio of by-elections with a stunning surge in the vote \u2013 as Labour crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[87182,528,12,386,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-by-election","10":"tag-labour-party","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-reform-uk","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759787118496734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}