Labour, Green party and Reform make final pitch to voters in Gorton and Denton – as it happened

Voters head to the polls for the Gorton and Denton by-election Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

5.03pm GMT

Afternoon summary

• Jeremy Corbyn is to become the de facto leader of Your Party, after an election in which his rival Zarah Sultana was also voted on to the party’s leadership committee.

• People in Gorton and Denton on the outskirts of Manchester have been voting in one of the closely fought – and potentially consequential – byelections in recent years. And it’s been raining.

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.

4.54pm GMT

These are from Sienna Rodgers from the House Magazine on the Your Party elections.

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘The Many’ slate won 14 seats

Zarah Sultana’s Grassroots Left won 7 seats

Independents won 3 seats

25,347 Your Party members voted (over 1,000 more than in the 2025 Green party Leadership elections won by Zack Polanski)

YP source points out that 20 of the 24 seats on the CEC have been won by women, saying: “So much for the sexist boys’ club!”

Understand that now the leadership has been elected Corbyn will officially become a Your Party MP

He is currently listed as an Independent whereas Sultana became a YP MP months ago

Here is Alexandra Topping’s updated story on the results.

And here is an extract.

Sources close to [Zarah] Sultana said she had no intention of quitting the party despite Corbyn’s victory. “She will stay and fight,” they said. “She’ll be fighting with the other seven women that have been elected from Grassroots Left to make sure that the party is as democratic as it can be and to give as much power to the members as ‘The Many’ will allow.”

The 24-person CEC – on which 20 women will sit – will decide who takes the roles of chair, deputy chair, secretary, treasurer, political officer and spokesperson. After months of public spats, rows over money, accusations of sexism and rifts over policy and direction, Your Party is hoping to turn a page on the controversies that have beset it since its launch in July last year.

Following the result former Your Party MP Adnan Hussain said he was “delighted” at Corbyn’s victory, though he stopped short of saying he would rejoin the party. “‘The results clearly demonstrate members’ trust in his leadership and vision for the party, the same vision which inspired me to join the project,” he said. “I wish him the best of luck in putting into action his vision for a mass movement for the many.”