Jim McMahon defeats Ukip challenge with massive majority in first poll test of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadershipLabour has comfortably won its first parliamentary byelection since Jeremy Corbyn became leader,storming ahead of Ukip by 10835 votes in Oldham West and Royton in Greater Manchester.
Jim McMahon, the 35-year-old leader of Oldham council, and will swap the town corridor for Westminster after persuading 17322 people to vote for him. Turnout was 40.26% – not an embarrassment on a very rainy Thursday in December. McMahon increased Labour’s share of the vote to 62.27%,up 7.49% from the general election in May. Related: 'Oldham was broke and we needed to fix it,' says Jim McMahon Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com