伦敦居民正在霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯选区举行特别补选投票，绿党在该选区对首相安迪·伯纳姆领导的工党构成了威胁。
Londoners are voting in a special by-election in the electoral district of Holborn and St Pancras, where the Green Party is posing a threat to Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour Party.
英国左翼绿党领袖扎克·波兰斯基周四与其他候选人一同参选，以争夺因前首相基尔·斯塔默辞职而空出的议会席位。
Zack Polanski, leader of Britain’s left-wing Greens, was among candidates bidding on Thursday to win the parliamentary seat vacated by the resignation of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
自1983年该选区设立以来，工党一直持续占据该席位。周四的投票被广泛视为工党与绿党之间的两强对决，近几周以来，两党数千名活动家都积极参与拉票。
Labour has held the seat continuously since its creation in 1983. Thursday’s vote is widely considered a two-horse race with the Greens, with thousands of activists from both parties out canvassing in recent weeks.
此次投票被视为检验伯纳姆能否重振选民对工党信心的首次试金石。由于加沙战争，工党在左翼选民中的支持率曾大幅下滑。此次补选也让他有机会削弱绿党在波兰斯基领导下的发展势头。这位43岁的自封“生态民粹主义者”于去年9月成为绿党领袖。
The vote is seen as a first test of whether Burnham can restore voters’ faith in Labour, which saw its popularity among left-wing voters plunge over the war in Gaza The by-election also offers him a chance to rob the Greens of the momentum they have built up under Polanski the 43-year-old self-styled “eco-populist” who became party leader in September last year.
绿党在伦敦多个地区的得票上升，导致工党在5月份的地方选举中表现惨淡，这一结果也引发了一系列连锁反应，最终于7月20日导致斯塔默辞职，并由伯纳姆接任。
Green gains in areas of London contributed to Labour’s dismal local election results in May, which helped set in train a process that culminated on July 20 with Starmer’s resignation and his replacement by Burnham.
此后，伯纳姆在以色列问题上采取了更强硬立场，并试图通过提出更左翼的英国发展愿景，以遏制绿党的崛起。
He has since adopted a tougher position on Israel and seeks to blunt the Greens’ rise by laying out a more left-wing vision for the UK.
作为绿党候选人，波兰斯基将面对工党的萨加尔·阿卜迪-瓦利。后者是地方议会领袖，20世纪90年代作为索马里难民儿童来到英国，预计将成为最终胜者。
Polanski, as the Greens’ candidate, faces Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali, a local council leader who arrived in Britain as a child refugee from Somalia in the 1990s and is expected to be declared the winner.
投票将于当地时间晚上10点（格林尼治标准时间21:00）截止，结果预计将于周五凌晨公布。
Polls are scheduled to close at 10pm local time (21:00 GMT) and the result is expected to be announced in the early hours of Friday.
其他候选人包括：官方怪物 raving 疯狂党（Official Monster Raving Loony Party）的巴米·布伦奇（Barmy Brunch）；保守党（Conservative Party）的尤恩·卡梅伦（Ewan Cameron）；独立候选人汤姆·达伍德（Tom Darwood）；气候党（Climate Party）的克莱尔·费舍尔（Clare Fischer）；工人党（Workers Party）的乔治·加洛韦（George Galloway）；“恢复英国”（Restore Britain）的泰勒·约翰逊（Tyler Johnson）；“重新加入欧盟”（Rejoin EU）的布里安尼·安妮·隆贝·卡普尔（Briony Anne Lonbay Kapoor）；英国改革党（Reform UK）的彼得·纽曼（Peter Newman）；英国之声（UK VOICE）的凯坦库马尔·皮帕利亚（Ketankumar Pipaliya）；共产主义同盟（Communist League）的乔纳森·西尔伯曼（Jonathan Silberman）；基督教人民联盟（Christian Peoples Alliance）的海伦·斯皮比-范（Helen Spiby-Vann）；自由民主党（Liberal Democrats）的帕特里克·托马斯·斯蒂尔曼（Patrick Thomas Stillman）；英国独立党（UKIP）的本·沃克（Ben Walker）。
The other candidates are: Barmy Brunch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party; Ewan Cameron, Conservative Party; independent candidate Tom Darwood; Clare Fischer of the Climate Party; George Galloway, Workers Party; Tyler Johnson, Restore Britain; Briony Anne Lonbay Kapoor of Rejoin EU; Peter Newman of Reform UK; Ketankumar Pipaliya, UK VOICE; Jonathan Silberman of the Communist League; Helen Spiby-Vann, Christian Peoples Alliance; Patrick Thomas Stillman, Liberal Democrats; Ben Walker, UKIP.