'This is for Gaza' Galloway says after victory in Rochdale byelection
The former Labour MP secures an impressive victory with 12,335 votes - 39.7% of the total. | Former Labour MP George Galloway secured the position of lawmaker for the English town of Rochdale on Friday. Galloway secured an impressive victory with 12,335 votes - 39.7% of the total - surpassing predictions and establishing a significant 5,697-vote majority. This marks Galloway's seventh parliamentary win and poses a challenge to Labour, a party he was once part of but was expelled for criticizing then-Prime Minister Tony Blair over the Iraq war.