Hannah Spencer

Hannah Kathrine Spencer (born 19 April 1991) is an English Green Party politician and plumber who has been a member of Parliament (MP) for Gorton and Denton since 2026. She was elected in the February 2026 by-election. Spencer is the first Green Party member to win a by-election in the United Kingdom.

Spencer also became a member of Trafford Council for Hale in 2023. She became leader of the Green Party Group on the council in 2025. She unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Greater Manchester in 2024.

Early life
Spencer was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester on 19 April 1991. Spencer left school at 16. She became a plumber in around 2008. She went to trade school at Bolton College.

Early political career
Spencer entered politics because she was against dog racing. She joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2022. 

Spencer was elected councillor for the newly-created Hale ward on Trafford Council in 2023. Spencer was later picked as leader of the Green Party group on Trafford Council in May 2025. 

Spencer was the Green Party's candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester in the 2024 mayoral election, where she ended in fifth place.

In the 2025 Green Party internal elections, Spencer ran for local party support coordinator, losing to Rosie Rawle. She supported Zack Polanski in the 2025 Green Party leadership election. Spencer was picked to be the Green Party's spokesperson for migration and refugee support in September 2025.

Member of Parliament (2026–present)
2026 by-election

In January 2026, Spencer was picked as the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton in the February by-election. During her campaign, Spencer said that, if elected, she would support a £15 minimum wage; rent controls; lower energy bills, fix home insulation; and free prescriptions, dentistry and eye care. She criticised the Labour Party's handling of the Gaza war. She said that the Green Party as having a "proud history" of standing with Palestinians.

Spencer won the by-election with 40.7% of the votes, a majority of 4,402, beating both Reform UK (28.7%) and the Labour Party (25.4%) to become the Green Party's fifth MP and first in the North of England. After being elected to parliament in 2026, she became the first Green Party member to win a by-election in the UK.

Personal life
Spencer lives in Trafford. She used to live in Levenshulme. Spencer owns four greyhounds that she rescused from greyhound racing.

In 2013, while working as a plumber, The Guardian named Spencer one of the best-dressed people at the Glastonbury Festival that year.

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