Tulip Siddiq elected British MP for 4th time

Tulip Siddiq, the granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been re-elected as British MP for the fourth consecutive term.

She has bagged 23,432 votes (48.3%) from her constituency of Hampstead and Highgate while her nearest opponent, Conservative candidate Don Williams, received 8,462 votes, reports BBC.

Meanwhile, Rupa Huq won from Ealing Central and Acton with 22,340 votes (46.8%), while her nearest rival, James Windsor-Clive, a Conservative candidate, received 8,345 votes.

Thirty-four Bangladesh-origin candidates have contested the UK election this year.

Eight candidates, including former MPs Rushanara Ali, Tulip Siddiq, Rupa Huq and Apsana Begum participated from the Labour Party. The other candidates are Rumi Chowdhury, Rufia Ashraf, Nurul Hoque Ali and Nazmul Hossain.

Two other candidates, Atik Rahman and Syed Saiduzzaman, joined the fray from the Conservative Party.

Among other Bangladesh-origin candidates, six contested the polls from the Workers’ Party of Britain and one each from the Reform Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Nationalist Party, and the Socialist Party. Eleven others are contesting as independents, while three others represented the Green Party.

Keir Starmer's Labour Party has achieved a landslide victory in the UK general election, ending 14 years of hysterical Conservative rule.