Bradford West voters show their respect for Labour’s safe seat and vote in George Galloway as MP
This morning’s news headlines called it a “surprise landslide victory”. That’s shorthand for commentators being caught off guard and not accurately capturing the mood of the “safe Labour” Bradford West electorate who turned out in force (turnout just over 50%) to return George Galloway to Parliament in the by-election. Results via the BBC: Candidate (Party), vote (vote share, change since 2010) George Galloway (Respect) 18,341 (55.89%, +52.83%) Imran Hussain (Lab) 8,201 (24.99%, -20.36%) Jackie Whiteley (C) 2,746 (8.37%, -22.78%) Jeanette …