{"id":2760,"date":"2026-06-16T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/tactical-voting-by-greens-and-lib-dems-could-be-key-to-labour-victory-in-makerfield\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:19:00","slug":"tactical-voting-by-greens-and-lib-dems-could-be-key-to-labour-victory-in-makerfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/tactical-voting-by-greens-and-lib-dems-could-be-key-to-labour-victory-in-makerfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical voting by Greens and Lib Dems could be key to Labour victory in Makerfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<br><p>Left-leaning voters more willing to back Andy Burnham than Restore supporters are to vote Reform<\/p><p>Tactical voting could be fundamental to a Labour victory in Makerfield, with Green and Liberal Democrat supporters willing to back Andy Burnham to stop Reform UK from winning.<\/p><p>Conversely, Reform\u2019s main competitor for votes on the right is Rupert Lowe\u2019s Restore Britain party. Polling experts have said current data suggests the size of their vote share is roughly similar to Labour\u2019s poll lead.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jun\/16\/tactical-voting-greens-lib-dems-labour-makerfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jun\/16\/tactical-voting-greens-lib-dems-labour-makerfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  www.theguardian.com<\/a>\r\n<br>Left-leaning voters are more inclined to support Andy Burnham than supporters of Restore are to back Reform UK, highlighting the importance of tactical voting for a Labour victory in Makerfield. Green and Liberal Democrat voters are willing to back Burnham to prevent Reform UK&#8217;s success. Meanwhile, the primary competitor for Reform UK on the right is Rupert Lowe&#8217;s Restore Britain party. Current polling data indicates that the vote share for Restore Britain is roughly comparable to Labour&#8217;s poll lead, suggesting a competitive electoral landscape.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left-leaning voters more willing to back Andy Burnham than Restore supporters are to vote ReformTactical voting could be fundamental to a Labour victory in Makerfield, with Green and Liberal Democrat supporters willing to back Andy Burnham to stop Reform UK from winning.Conversely, Reform\u2019s main competitor for votes on the right is Rupert Lowe\u2019s Restore Britain party. Polling experts have said&hellip;","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}