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Get the free app no ads · no paywallPolitics · 8 May 2026
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Wigan, a former mining community Labour has controlled for more than 50 years, fell entirely to Reform overnight. Labour lost every one of the 20 seats it was defending there. In nearby Salford, Labour held on to just three of the 16 seats it was defending.
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