Divisive left-wing candidate George Galloway, who ran an election campaign largely focused on capturing the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian vote in his constituency loses his seat to a Labour Party candidate.
Galloway, the leader of the fringe Workers Party of Great Britain was elected to the UK parliament after winning the seat of Rochdale in northern England in a by-election just months earlier.
The 69-year-old candidate won the February 2024 by-election after Labour withdrew its candidate Azhar Ali due to antisemitic comments regarding the October 7 Hamas terror assault.
Galloway, long accused by critics of stoking community tensions, has put the war in Gaza front and center of his campaign in Rochdale, which has a 30 percent Muslim population.
In an unusual move, Galloway declined to appear on stage with the rest of the Rochdale candidates as the constituency’s results were announced.
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