Holborn and St Pancras by-election gets under way
Sagal Abdi-Wali won with 12,292 votes as Labour held the seat and the Greens finished second after a close contest.
- On Thursday, October 8, 2026, polls opened in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election as voters choose a successor to former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the north London constituency.
- Labour candidate Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali seeks to retain the seat, a party stronghold since 1983, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham said, "Today, hope can win."
- Green Party leader Zack Polanski competes to break Labour's dominance, though his campaign faced scrutiny after the party conference passed a motion asserting "Zionism is racism," which Polanski abstained from.
- Fifteen candidates are standing in the by-election, including Conservatives' Ewan Cameron and Liberal Democrats' Patrick Thomas Stillman, challenging the 48.9 per cent vote share Sir Keir won in 2024.
- Voting concludes at 10pm today, with results expected between 3am and 4am tomorrow, Friday, October 9, 2026, determining the constituency's new parliamentary representative.
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Holborn and St Pancras by-election: Record low turnout exposes mass disaffection with both Labour and the Greens
Labour held Keir Starmer’s former seat on the lowest by-election turnout in England this parliament, as the Green Party revival under Zack Polanski faltered.
Unmasking a multi-party race to the bottom of identity politics tells you less about the target and more about who’s doing it
A stream of co-ordinated online comment about her Nigerian heritage is exactly what it looks like, whilst trying to disguise it's about how she looks. What's worse is Reform, the Green's and Labour have been doing it in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Identity weaponised for political attack not promotion.
'It is clear now we will come a close second in this by-election. Taking the fight to Labor in one of its safest seats shows just how far the Greens have come,' says party spokesperson
Sagal Abdi-Wali has won the by-election in the British district of Holborn and St. Pancras, which was until recently represented by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Labour Party candidate received 45.17% of the vote. The vote was held on October 8, after Starmer resigned as MP for the district. He also resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom before that. The constituency in North London is considered a traditionally strong one fo…
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