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Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Facts and figures: the Makerfield byelection result in numbers

Andy Burnham Makerfield Reform ReStore Restore Britain Nigel Farage Rupert Lowe Reform UK Josh Simons Robert Kenyon

Candidates wait on stage for the election results for MP of Makerfield, at the Edge in Wigan, north-west England. — Andy Burnham received more votes than the other 13 candidates combined. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

It was, the consensus opinion states, probably the most politically consequential byelection in recent UK history. But what can we learn from the raw numbers announced overnight in Makerfield? Here are some of them.

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