# UK by-election: Labour keeps Starmer’s former constituency

https://mins.news/en/video/92793

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-09 08:14 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJO4Rq9XSBE

> Voters in Holborn and St Pancras elected Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali, giving the party its first by-election win during Andy Burnham’s tenure as UK prime minister. She is the first MP of Somali descent in Britain; Green Party leader Zack Polanski was her challenger.

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