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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

FOUND: Reform beats labour by six votes in runcorn vote as party gains first mayor - What They Never Told You

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured victory by six votes over Labour in Runcorn and Helsby as a former Tory minister became the party’s first elected mayor.

In one of the closest parliamentary votes ever, new MP Sarah Pochin took the seat which Labour won with a majority of almost 14,700 less than a year ago.

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