After the Green Party won the Gorton and Denton by-election last week, supporters shared their ‘joy’ at the result.

Last Friday, the Green Party’s Hannah Spencer, a plumber, won the Gorton and Denton by-election with a majority of more than 4000 votes.

Ali Hamza, a resident in Gorton said that he had voted Green because they represent working class people. He cited how Hannah Spencer’s profession was a part of the reason he voted for the Green party.

He didn’t know that the Greens had won and shared that he was very happy with the result.

Lars Morton, a resident in the constituency, said: “Labour have tried to appeal to the right-wing. The Green party has provided an alternative to that. It’s saying that there is a politics of hope”.

She added that she had been voting for the Green party her whole life but had never expected them to win an election in her area.

The Green party’s open immigration policies, support for trans people, and Hannah Spencer’s working-class background were her main reasons for voting green.

“Hannah Spencer [is] a northern working-class woman and I am a northern working-class woman and seeing that a plumber now being a member of parliament is a massive thing”, she said.

Hannah Spencer’s roots and profession displays that ‘politics is for everyone’, Lars added.

An employee at Perfume UK Goccia, in the Gorton market shared that, whilst he was not from the area, he was happy that the Green Party had won. He had leaflets promoting the Green Party in his stall.

“I would rather have them than Labour or Reform.”, he said.

Throughout the Gorton and Levenshulme area, support for the Green party was clear, with businesses and homes alike displaying Green party posters and leaflets.

Pundits had predicted a close three horse race between the Greens, Labour and Reform.

This by-election was a crucial moment for all three parties, who were each campaigning to demonstrate who was in the public’s favour.

The Labour party argued that a vote for Green was essentially a vote for Reform. They have had a seat in the Gorton and Denton constituency for nearly a century.

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party argued that the result posed an ‘existential crisis for the Labour party’.

Kier Starmer stated he would ‘keep fighting’ despite the ‘disappointing’ result.

Hannah Spencer is the first Green party candidate to win a by-election, and the fifth Green party MP currently in the Houses of Commons.