Birmingham Greens win Tyseley and Hay Mills ward

Greens win one of few seats where Your Party also stood

by HG

8 May 2026

in News, Trending, UK

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The Green Party has won the Tyseley and Hay Mills ward in Birmingham, one of the few seats where both Your Party and the Workers Party also fielded candidates.

‼️RESULT | Tyseley + Hay Mills ward (Birmingham)

🟢 Grn: 20.5% (+13.9)
🟠 Lib: 17.3% (+7.0)
🔴 Lab: 17.3% (-57.2)
➡️ Ref: 16.1% (+16.1)
⚙️ WPB: 14.3% (+14.3)
🔵 Con: 11.3% (+2.6)
🟥 Your: 3.4% (+3.4)

Green GAIN from Labour 🟢 pic.twitter.com/Kx4zdv3vmz

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) May 8, 2026

This is a fascinating ward because it is one of the handful of seats where the Greens, Workers Party and Your Party all stood. And the outcome was a Green victory.

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) May 8, 2026

The Greens won nearly seven times Your Party’s vote share. This shows that simply wielding Corbyn as party leader is not enough for voters.

‘Bin fire’

This is also the first seat the Greens have gained in Birmingham, and shows that for Labour, there are no safe seats anymore.

Incredibly, Labour lost 57.2% of its previous vote share. Its vote is literally shattering before our eyes.

Birmingham Labour source: “It’s going to be a bin fire:”

Most appropriate metaphor possible, really

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 8, 2026

Of course, Labour is expected to suffer major losses in Birmingham due to the pro-Palestinian Muslim communities.

As 5Pillars reported:

Gaza is a major issue for many voters, but Muslims also feel betrayed by Labour. It will cost Labour dearly in Birmingham.

However, the result also shows the absurdity of the first-past-the-post voting system.

Incredible to see a clear progressive majority & historic Green victory in this Birmingham ward!

But the result lays bare the absurdity of FPTP. Winning 20.49% of the vote isn’t winning a real mandate to govern.

We need to get to grips with our broken voting system. pic.twitter.com/DMOb1KBUcY

— Compass (@CompassOffice) May 8, 2026

What is clear is that Your Party has not connected with voters in the same way that Polanski’s Green Party has.

And Labour is slithering away into irrelevance.

Feature image via the Canary

Tags: Green party Jeremy Corbyn

Comments 2

Paul F says:

1 month ago

Predictable. Set up a chaotic party that is controlled by an undemocratic cliche who ban socialists. No, I’m not talking about Labour but Labour Mk. 2 run by Karie Murphy. It’s a busted flush. Bin it!

Tom Clother says:

1 month ago

It was a funny quip for Stats for Lefties to make about the Greens reconsidering their opposition to the First Past The Post voting system but that is all it was, a throwaway, spur of the moment joke.

The Green Party are still and will continue to be in favour of a switch to a Proportional Representative voting system for basic fairness. All progressive parties should be pushing for it to be in place before the next general election.

If the Parliamentary Labour Party had any sense then they would be getting on with that now, even before finding themselves a new leader.

As usual the gutless Labour members of Parliament are doing their best imitations of ostriches. But rather than just burying their heads in the sand, they have gone the extra mile and added quick setting concrete to the sand covering their heads.

The Australian Labour Party, for all its faults would not put up with a stinking failure like Starmer for five minutes. Get the plonker out, along with his Labour Together handlers.