Hilary Jane Armstrong,Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top,DL is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010.
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years,making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997,Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012,and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017 and served as the interim Mayor of Greater Manchester in his last two years in the role.
The Respect Party was a left-wing to far-left socialist political party active in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2016. At the height of its success in 2007,the party had one Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons and nineteen councillors in local government.
Dumfries and Galloway is a constituency in Scotland represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by John Cooper of the Scottish Conservatives since the 2024 general election. It was first contested in the 2005 general election,replacing Galloway and Upper Nithsdale and part of Dumfries. Like all British constituencies,it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. Despite its name,it does not cover the whole of the Dumfries and Galloway council area.
Oldham East and Saddleworth is a constituency in outer Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since January 2011 by Debbie Abrahams of the Labour Party.
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2024 general election by Chris Ward of the Labour Party.
Rochdale is a constituency,which is currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Paul Waugh of the Labour and Co-operative Party since 2024. Rochdale has elected one Member of Parliament (MP) since its creation in 1832.
Bradford West is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Naz Shah of the Labour Party.
George Galloway is a British politician,broadcaster,and writer. He has been leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019,and was a former leader of the Respect Party. Until 2003,he was a member of the Labour Party. From 1987 to 2010,and from 2012 to 2015,Galloway served as Member of Parliament (MP) for five constituencies,most recently for Rochdale briefly in 2024.
Simon Christopher Danczuk is a British author and former Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the constituency of Rochdale between 2010 and 2017. Elected as a member of the Labour Party,he was suspended from the party in 2015 after it emerged he had exchanged explicit messages with a 17-year-old girl. He has co-written two books,Smile for the Camera:The Double Life of Cyril Smith and Scandal at Dolphin Square. He was the Reform UK candidate in the 2024 Rochdale by-election,which was later won by Workers Party of Britain leader George Galloway. He came sixth behind Liberal Democrats,Labour,Conservatives and Independent candidate David Tully.
On 29 March 2012,a by-election was held for the House of Commons constituency of Bradford West. It was unexpectedly won by George Galloway of the Respect Party who defeated the Labour Party candidate by a large margin in a result referred to by Galloway as the "Bradford Spring". Galloway said the election result was Bradford's "peaceful democratic uprising" version of the riots which swept through England in August 2011.
Stephen John Doughty is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2012. He has served as Minister of State for Europe,North America and Overseas Territories since July 2024.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Manchester Gorton was scheduled to take place on 4 May 2017,following the death of the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP),Sir Gerald Kaufman. It was cancelled on 20 April following the announcement of the 2017 general election. At the general election in June,most of the candidates who were due to stand in the by-election contested the seat,and the Labour candidate,Afzal Khan,retained the seat for his party with a large majority.
A 2019 by-election took place in the Parliamentary constituency of Peterborough on 6 June 2019. It was won by Lisa Forbes of the Labour Party. Mike Greene of the Brexit Party took second place.
Christopher Mark Clarkson is a British Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood &Middleton from 2019 to 2024. Prior to entering Parliament,Clarkson was a Salford City Councillor for Worsley.
The Workers Party of Britain (WPB),also called the Workers Party of Great Britain (WPGB) or Workers Party GB,is a socialist and socially conservative political party in the United Kingdom,led by and identified with politician George Galloway.
A by-election was held in the UK parliamentary constituency of Batley and Spen on 1 July 2021,following the resignation of the previous Member of Parliament (MP) Tracy Brabin,who was elected Mayor of West Yorkshire on 10 May. Under the devolution agreement,the position holds the powers and responsibilities of a police and crime commissioner,meaning the occupant of the office cannot simultaneously sit as an MP. The by-election was the fourth of the 58th Parliament,elected in 2019.
The 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election was held on 2 May 2024 to elect the mayor of Greater Manchester. The election took place on the same day as council elections within the city region,including the election for the mayor of Salford,as well as local elections across England and Wales.
A by-election took place on 29 February 2024 in the UK Parliament constituency of Rochdale following the death of Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd. The winner was George Galloway of the Workers Party of Britain who received 40% of the vote and overturned a 9,668 vote Labour majority at the 2019 general election. The turnout was 39.7%,compared to a 60.1% turnout in the constituency at the previous general election.
