Holborn and St Pancras votes, and Patrick Christys Tonight carries the night

The full two-hour Thursday show went out as polls closed, and by morning Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali had held the seat against Green Party leader Zack Polanski.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 108,151 views a day, 32 times a normal first day on this channel (3,396).

Patrick Christys Tonight | Thursday 8th October

Two hours, and a crowd for all of them. The full Thursday edition of Patrick Christys Tonight passed 43,000 views in its first six hours. Complete shows on this channel usually gather a few thousand views across a whole first day.

It was by-election night. Polls closed on Thursday evening in Holborn and St Pancras, the north London seat that first sent Keir Starmer to Parliament in 2015 and that takes in Bloomsbury and King's Cross. Christys spent part of the programme on the campaign. A segment cut from the show, titled "'ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!'", has him going through a race in which, the clip's description says, he saw the "hard-left" candidates as the only ones with a chance. That clip also ran well ahead of the channel's usual pace for its regular videos.

The result arrived overnight. A breaking report posted the next morning says Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won by 3,000 votes, with Green Party leader Zack Polanski behind her. GB News titled it an "embarrassing DEFEAT" for Polanski.

It is the second evening in a row for the programme. As we reported here, Wednesday's edition, which aired on the third anniversary of October 7, also drew an unusually large audience for a full show. The description bills the program as two hours of debate and interviews with guests. On Thursday it ran alongside the vote count, and the late edition, built around the next morning's front pages, followed it onto the channel.

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The numbers

A full evening show usually draws a modest audience here, so this first day stands out, and the by-election clip from the same programme ran ahead too.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,396

this video

108,151

subscribers

2,190,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,007,286,964

views per day

2,600,404

typical day: 2,046,186

the video

views

42,917

likes

346

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

NowThis

2,230,000

BBC World Service

2,220,000

CBC News: The National

2,200,000

GBNews

2,190,000

Localish

2,180,000

AccuWeather

2,170,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.