2024 Rochdale by-election

2024 Rochdale by-election

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Rochdale constituency
Turnout	39.7% (20.4 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Candidate George Galloway David Tully Paul Ellison Party Workers Party Independent Conservative Popular vote 12,335 6,638 3,731 Percentage 39.7% 21.3% 12.0% Swing N/A N/A 19.2 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Candidate Azhar Ali Iain Donaldson Simon Danczuk Party Labour[a] Liberal Democrats Reform UK Popular vote 2,402 2,164 1,968 Percentage 7.7% 7.0% 6.3% Swing 43.9 pp pp 1.9 pp
Boundary of Rochdale in Greater Manchester
MP before election Tony Lloyd Labour Elected MP George Galloway Workers

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.^[1][2][3] 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.^[4] The turnout was 39.7%, compared to a 60.1% turnout in the constituency at the previous general election.^[5]

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