Did Nigel Farage's pursuit of breaking away from "amateurist" reform pay off? |British reform

Over the past few months, Nigel Farage has pledged to specialize in its reform of the British party, saying the outcome of its election was hampered by the party's "amateurism".

A narrow victory Friday in Runcorn and Helsby's attention showed that his strategy began to bring fruit. Not only has the party won a distant third of the seats less than a year ago, it also won a much bigger swing than the state poll suggests, a sign of the effectiveness of the party’s ground movement.

"Think about the swing," Farage told Sky News a few minutes after the results were announced.

He said: "Think about change - it's the Heartland Labour Party. Their votes have collapsed and have fallen on us for the most part. This removes that media narrative that somehow is just us with conservatives. It's not. It's totally different politics."

Reform won Runcorn with only six votes: the narrowest by-election victory since 1945, a result that would make Labor officials wonder if the prime minister should visit the constituency during his campaign.

But to achieve this victory, the party had to overturn more than 14,000 victories, with labor reaching 17 percentage points respectively. National polls put reform ahead of Labor and conservatives, meaning that a swing of just 10 percentage points is not enough to win a seat.

Reform candidate Andrea Jenkyns also became Greater Lincolnshire's first mayor, and despite the campaign's campaign being about the promise of a Yorkshire-born former Conservative MP to her new county, it won by most of nearly 40,000.

Reform suffered even more disappointing results in other mayoral elections, ranking second among labor in Doncaster, North Tyneside and West England. However, every voter turned heavily to Farage's party. In North Tyneside, the reform lost only 444 votes after Labour's 26-point swing.

The reform campaign was so extensive that it raised questions about the source of the party's funding. The Liberal Democrats calculated that the Populist party spent more than £2 million in personalized letters to postal voters before yesterday's election - far exceeding the £281,000 donated in the last quarter of last year.

Luke Tryl, executive director of the Political Research Organization, said more together: “The problem at that time was that reforms could make those who normally don’t vote.

Results

"In Runcorn, the party confronts the powerful campaign machine of Labor and still manages to achieve its narrowest victory. Among the many lessons learned last night, it was clear that traditional major parties no longer rely on reform as a lack of infrastructure for defense of Farage Party parties."

Labor was determined to show a brave face in the outcome, highlighting the unusual incident that triggered the Longko by-election, which was hit after incumbent Labour MP Mike Amesbury was found guilty of a beating component.

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The party also noted that the performance in the three mayors games that were expected to lose each of the three mayors games that were expected to lose was higher than expected, suggesting that strong local candidates could still outperform the party’s national polls.

"It's a protest vote," said Labour's fellow Ayesha Hazarika. "But I think it's really impressive that Labour managed to stick with three of the mayor seats when we look at the results."

Meanwhile, the Conservative vote collapsed, as one would expect.

In Runcorn, the Conservatives fell 9 percentage points, accusing the Conservatives of abandoning their seats to allow a reform victory. In the mayoral competition in West England, each of the five major parties competed fiercely, with the party ranked fourth.

Conservative officials tried to use the election as an early referendum for the Labor government. But the reality is that both major political parties are now hurt by the surge in reform.

The biggest question Farage faces is whether the motivation to professionalize his party is enough to maintain momentum for the next four years.