George Galloway elected as MP again after massive Rochdale by-election landslide victory
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George Galloway elected as MP again after massive Rochdale by-election landslide victory
George Galloway is MP again, having received (though cannot confirm) what I believe is the biggest by-election swing by a 3rd party in British history, the single largest victory outside the three major parties since 1945, and also having won nearly twice as many votes as the runner up, David Tully:
No wonder why unelected billionaire Sunaka the Dog is terrified of the Horseshoe Party:
Naturally, Keir Starmer will downplay the victory as a result of withdrawing support for Azhar Ali (due to his comments that Israel provoked the 7th October attacks); and yet, Galloway not only ran on the same sentiments, he went a step further and condemned Zionism as a whole and Israel as a terrorist regime and managed to win in a landslide.George Galloway overturned a sizable Labour majority for the third time in his parliamentary career in the Rochdale by-election, triumphing with a 5,697 majority.
With previous election victories in Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005 and Bradford West in 2012, it means no single challenger has stolen as many seats from the major parties in England at by-elections since the Second World War.
Ukip may well have enjoyed some success in the middle of the past decade – with Conservative defectors Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless bringing Tory voters with them in 2014 by-elections – but no single insurgent has come close to matching Mr Galloway’s hat-trick.
In fact, other than these Ukip candidates, only the deselected Labour MP Dick Taverne, who won a by-election in Lincoln prompted by his own resignation for his splinter Democratic Labour Party, has managed it even once. That was in 1973.
No wonder why unelected billionaire Sunaka the Dog is terrified of the Horseshoe Party:
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