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
— 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
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.
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By HG
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