Labour win Stretford and Urmston by-election with emphatic majority: ‘Tories have given up’

Andrew Western held the seat for Labour with a majority of 9,906 votes

Labour has retained the parliamentary seat of Stretford and Urmston in northwest England, by-election results announced in the small hours of Friday showed.

The seat went to the polls to choose a new MP after Labour’s former minister Kate Green stepped down last month after being nominated as deputy mayor of Greater Manchester.

Andrew Western, Labour’s candidate to replace Ms Green, held the seat with a majority of 9,906, the party’s second by-election victory since Rishi Sunak entered office less than two months ago.