Which constituency did George Galloway win in 2012?
"during the interview: ""Every so often an issue comes along which is seized upon by the enemies of Iran and it becomes a heavy problem and magnified..."". According to Martin Fletcher in ""The Times"", Ahmadinejad gave ""mendacious answers"" which ""went unchallenged by his obsequious interlocutor"". Galloway told Ahmadinejad: ""I have police protection in London from the Iranian opposition because of my support for your election campaign"" in 2009. ""I mention this so you know where I'm coming from."" After the resignation of Labour MP Marsha Singh due to ill health, Galloway returned to Parliament at the March 2012 Bradford West"
"by-election, 2012 with 55.9% of the votes cast; his 30.9% majority was at the time the largest majority in the history of the modern constituency, but he lost the seat in 2015 to the new Labour candidate Naz Shah by a substantial (28.3%) margin. Despite Galloway's threats to contest the result, he neither launched a legal challenge nor stood again in 2017, where Shah surpassed his record by winning a majority of 48.1%, the largest margin for a Bradford West MP in any incarnation of the seat. Despite Galloway not standing, his former Respect colleague Salma Yaqoob did stand as"
"the seat which was gained by George Galloway for Respect. In the 2008 London Assembly election, Julie Crawford stood in the City and East constituency and polled 701 votes, 0.3% of the popular vote, coming 12th and last among the candidates. In the 2010 general election, the Communist League stood Caroline Bellamy in Edinburgh South West (48 votes) and Paul Davies in Hackney South and Shoreditch (110 votes). Peter Clifford stood in Manchester Central in 2012, gaining 64 votes. In the 2012 London Assembly election, Paul Davies stood in the City and East constituency and increased the vote to 1,108"
"George Galloway George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. Between 1987 and 2015, with a gap in 2010–12, he represented four constituencies as a Member of Parliament, elected as a candidate for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party. After becoming the youngest ever Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party in 1981, he became General Secretary of the London-based charity War on Want in 1983, remaining in the post until elected as MP for Glasgow Hillhead (later Glasgow Kelvin) at the 1987 general election. In 2003, Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party,"
"was not standing in the election, Galloway had urged a vote for Labour in 2013, having met and been impressed with then Labour leader Ed Miliband. None of the Respect candidates were elected. In George Galloway's own seat, the 10,000 majority he had gained at the 2012 Bradford West by-election was reversed, and the Labour Party candidate Naz Shah became the constituency's MP with a majority of 11,420 votes. In December 2015, it became known that former Respect Party leader Salma Yaqoob had applied to join the Labour Party in Hall Green following Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader. Her application"
"been a co-sponsor of bills to limit late-term abortions, including the intact dilation and extraction procedure. He is a member of the American Majority. On June 11, 2012, Calloway announced he would withdraw from the 2012 election. Terry Calloway Terry Calloway (born 1954) is former a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 3rd district (Pittsburg) from 2011 to 2013. Calloway was first elected to office in 2010, where he defeated the incumbent Julie Menghini. Calloway was raised in Greenville, South Carolina. He attended Greenville Technical College and was a draftsman working in mechanical engineering related fields."
"However, on March 16, 2012, Galloway announced her resignation from office due to health issues in her family, leaving the Senate evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Galloway's seat was filled in the recall election, which had already been scheduled. She was succeeded by fellow Republican Jerry Petrowski. Galloway relocated to Warsaw, Indiana where she announced in May 2015 that she would make a bid for the United States House of Representatives and run for Marlin Stutzman's seat in Indiana's 3rd congressional district. As of July 2015 she raised $51,423 in campaign contributions, with $50,000 coming from loans she made"
"1748, requiring voter identification at polling places. Galloway currently resides in Magnolia, Texas with his wife, Angela, and his two children. Galloway ran for the District 4 seat, a seat he previously held in the 1990s, in the Texas Senate, vacated in the fall of 2013 by the resignation of Republican Tommy Williams of The Woodlands, who accepted a position with Texas A&M University in College Station. Galloway faced an intraparty battle for the Senate vacancy from the District 15 Representative Steve Toth of The Woodlands, the District 16 Representative Brandon Creighton of Conroe, and Richard ""Gordy"" Bunch, who serves"
"He is a member of the Appropriations, Finance, Labor Relations, and Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness committees. John Galloway (American politician) John T. Galloway is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 140th state legislative district since 2007. His district includes parts of Bucks County. Galloway is a 1977 graduate of Pennsbury High School and a 2001 graduate of the Project Management Institute. He attended Bucks County Community College. He previously served as a member of the Pennsbury School Board and was campaign manager for Bucks County Commissioner Sandra A. Miller. He was first elected in"
"votes. The SNP's share of the vote in the constituency collapsed at the 2005 general election, and remained static in 2010. In 2015 the seat was won by the SNP's Richard Arkless with a 6,514 vote majority. The Conservative share of the vote stayed similar to the 2010 election, whereas Labour polled third, receiving 24.7% of the vote compared to 45.9% in 2010. Dumfries and Galloway (UK Parliament constituency) Dumfries and Galloway is a county constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was first used in the 2005 general election, and replaced Galloway"
"2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election The 2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Dumfries and Galloway Council. The election used the thirteen wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 47 councillors being elected. The election saw Labour replace the Scottish Conservative Party as the largest party on the Council as they gained 1 seat while the Tories lost 4 seats. The Scottish National Party retained"
"George Galloway (born 16 August 1954, Dundee, Scotland) is a politician and first became a member of parliament in 1987. During his time in CBB4, he was the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. He was booed on his entrance into the house. His participation in the show caused controversy, partially due to him being a sitting MP at the time of his entry into Big Brother. He consistently put a great deal of effort into the tasks assigned in the show, which included an incident, often re-shown, in which he pretended to be Rula Lenska's pet cat. Another"
"as a Liberal Democrat in 2008. The sitting member had been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2008 but subsequently joined the Conservatives. Gary Price previously represented a different ward as an Independent. The previous Conservative councilor stood as an Independent. The sitting member had previously stood as a Liberal Democrat. A by-election was held in Glasbury on 13 August 2015 following the resignation of Chris Davies, who was elected MP for Brecon and Radnor at the 2015 General Election. A by-election was held in Welshpool Llanerchyddol on 15 December 2016 following the death of Ann Holloway. 2012 Powys County"
"of the House. Prior to his election in 2004, Holloway was a social studies teacher at West Stokes High School. Holloway defeated incumbent Rex Baker in the 2004 Republican Primary and Robert Mitchell, a fellow West Stokes High School teacher, in the 2004 General Election. Holloway easily won re-election against Democrat Ed Gambill in 2006, 2008, and 2010. In 2012, he defeated former NC House Representative Nelson Cole. He was re-elected without opposition in 2014. Holloway is a graduate of Appalachian State University. He is a member of Calvary Baptist Church in King, North Carolina and resides in King with"
"and 2001. After early speculation, John Leech, MP for Manchester Withington from 2005–2015, ruled himself out, saying he was a ""one-constituency-man."". Other candidates: On 21 March 2017, former Labour, and later Respect, MP George Galloway announced his intention to stand as an independent candidate. He was critical of Labour's candidate shortlist only including people of South Asian ethnicity. Upon Galloway's announcement, both the Liberal Democrats and Greens criticised him for his strong support for Brexit. The Communist League announced that Peter Clifford would be their candidate at the by-election. Clifford previously contested the 2012 by-election in the neighbouring constituency of"
"John Galloway (American politician) John T. Galloway is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 140th state legislative district since 2007. His district includes parts of Bucks County. Galloway is a 1977 graduate of Pennsbury High School and a 2001 graduate of the Project Management Institute. He attended Bucks County Community College. He previously served as a member of the Pennsbury School Board and was campaign manager for Bucks County Commissioner Sandra A. Miller. He was first elected in 2007, defeating Republican Joseph Montone. Galloway serves as Secretary on the Aging & Older Adult Services Committee."
"total poll of 10,126 votes. At the 2012 Labour Party Conference in Galway, he was elected Chairman of the Labour Party. Following the publication of the 2012 Constituency Commission report, he was listed by ""The Irish Times"" as one of 13 TDs most likely to lose their seats in the next election. New boundaries saw Galway East lose a seat and the transfer of 20,500 voters out of the constituency, centred on his home town of Tuam. On 13 December 2012, he voted against the government on the cut to the respite care grant, which formed part of the 2013"
"when he appeared in the reality TV programme ""Big Brother"". He said that he had not missed any crucial votes, and that the best way for him to advance the interests of his constituents was by general campaigning. Galloway had always said that he only intended to stay in the seat for one parliament, and in 2010 stood for the neighbouring constituency of Poplar and Limehouse. However, he lost to the Labour incumbent Jim Fitzpatrick. In September 2007, the Respect party selected Abjol Miah, the leader of the Respect Group on Tower Hamlets Council, as their candidate to replace George"
"George Galloway, running as a candidate for the anti-war Respect, defeated Oona King (Labour) who in the previous General Election had a majority of 10,057. Following the result, a hostile interview with Jeremy Paxman attracted press attention. Labour lost the fewest votes in South West England, only 2.5%—but Labour's vote in South West England is historically poor. Notably, the Labour Party failed to take a single seat from another party. Labour polled seventy thousand fewer votes in England than the Conservatives, yet won ninety-two more seats, attributed to the smaller average electorate in urban (usually pro-Labour) constituencies. Labour regained one"
"ties. After his gubernatorial loss, Holloway mapped plans in 1992 to seek re-election to Congress. Louisiana lost a congressional district as a result of the 1990 census, and Holloway's Alexandria-based Eighth District was eliminated. His home in Forest Hill was drawn into a revised Sixth District stretching from Baton Rouge on the south to Alexandria on the north. He faced two opponents, fellow Republican Representative Richard Baker and the Democratic mayor of Alexandria, Edward Gordon ""Ned"" Randolph, Jr., who coincidentally died in 2016 twelve days before the passing of Holloway. In the nonpartisan blanket primary, Holloway led with 52,012 votes"
"Terry Calloway Terry Calloway (born 1954) is former a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 3rd district (Pittsburg) from 2011 to 2013. Calloway was first elected to office in 2010, where he defeated the incumbent Julie Menghini. Calloway was raised in Greenville, South Carolina. He attended Greenville Technical College and was a draftsman working in mechanical engineering related fields. He later moved to Pittsburg, Kansas and attended Pittsburg State University earning a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1988. That year he established Data Technique, a computer software and consulting firm. Calloway is pro-life, and has"
"seek re-election for Bethnal Green and Bow at the 2010 general election, but stood at the Poplar and Limehouse constituency instead. However, he finished in third place, behind Tim Archer of the Conservatives and Jim Fitzpatrick of the Labour Party. After a two-year absence from Parliament, Galloway returned to the House of Commons after winning the Bradford West by-election, 2012. Respect though has suffered from the resignation of leading members over the years, and Galloway lost his seat to Naz Shah of the Labour Party at the 2015 general election. In 2013, director Ken Loach made an appeal seeking to"
"(vs. 41.5% in the county). In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 5,226 votes here (50.4% vs. 47.7% countywide), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 4,409 votes (42.5% vs. 44.5%), Independent Chris Daggett with 531 votes (5.1% vs. 4.8%) and other candidates with 105 votes (1.0% vs. 1.2%), among the 10,379 ballots cast by the township's 22,353 registered voters, yielding a 46.4% turnout (vs. 44.9% in the county). For pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, students attend the Galloway Township Public Schools. As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its six schools had an enrollment of 4,932 students"
"2017 general election, the Conservatives surged into second place; only 266 votes behind sitting MP Angela Crawley - followed by Labour in third place with less than 100 votes behind the Conservative candidate, making the seat Scotland's tightest three-way marginal. The result also made it the tightest three-way marginal since 1945. As created by the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland the constituency is one of six covering the Dumfries and Galloway council area, the Scottish Borders council area and the South Lanarkshire council area. The other five constituencies are: Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire,"
"Michael Galloway (politician) Michael L. ""Mike"" Galloway (born March 3, 1965) is previously a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 4. Galloway defeated Democratic incumbent Carl Parker and became the first Republican to hold the seat since Reconstruction. Galloway is a fifth generation Texan who was born in 1965 and grew up on a small farm near Tomball. By age 16, he was working as a roustabout and a roughneck in the oil fields of Southeast Texas. While still in high school, he began work as an independent oil and gas contractor, and in 1989, at the age"
"Labour from the SDP defeating Roy Jenkins with a majority of 3,251 votes. Although known for his left-wing political views, Galloway was never a member of the Campaign Group (the name was changed to the Socialist Campaign Group some years after Galloway first became an MP). In a 2002 ""Guardian"" interview, Galloway said he had supported the Soviet Union and asserted that its end was ""the biggest catastrophe of my life"". Galloway told Robert Chalmers of ""The Independent on Sunday"" in June 2012: ""I am not a pacifist. I am a revolutionary. I am a Socialist who doesn't like Capitalism"
"to the Lafayette-based Louisiana's 7th congressional district in southwestern Louisiana to oppose Democratic Representative Jimmy Hayes. Hayes polled 72,424 votes (53 percent) to Holloway's 54,253 (39.7 percent). Another 7.3 percent of voters supported a candidate who ran as ""No party."" In 1996, Holloway entered the race for the revised (again) Fifth District, which covers the northeast quadrant of Louisiana, stretching to south of Alexandria to include his Forest Hill residence. Holloway ran third in the primary to fellow Republican John Cooksey, a Monroe ophthalmologist, and Democratic State Representative and later State Senator Francis C. Thompson, a popular large landowner in"
"which he spent three months homeless on the streets of London examining the plight of the capital's growing homeless population, particularly those with mental health issues. Holloway was elected in the 2005 general election to represent the Kent constituency of Gravesham, defeating a former Labour Minister, Chris Pond, by just 654 votes, but with one of the largest swings from Labour to Conservative in the country at 4.9% at that general election. This was the first time since the Second World War that Gravesham (or its predecessor Gravesend constituency) had not been held by the party of Government. He delivered"
"George Holloway (politician) George Holloway (1825 – 20 August 1892) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament representing Stroud who was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 10 July 1886. A clothing manufacturer, he was once the largest employer in Stroud. George with his brother Henry arrived in Stroud in 1849 and, in conjunction with Mathew Crowe, ran a clothing wholesale manufacturing business at 60/61 High Street, Stroud Glos — the business later moved to Threadneedle Street where the new, revolutionary steam-powered sewing machine was introduced. The business continued to prosper with branches in London,"
"on The Woodlands township council. In the May 10, 2014, special election Creighton came in first place with 45% of the vote. Creighton received 45.2%, Toth 23.7%, Bunch 21.8%, and Galloway 9.3%. Creighton and Toth faced other in a runoff election on August 5, 2014. Michael Galloway (politician) Michael L. ""Mike"" Galloway (born March 3, 1965) is previously a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 4. Galloway defeated Democratic incumbent Carl Parker and became the first Republican to hold the seat since Reconstruction. Galloway is a fifth generation Texan who was born in 1965 and grew up on"
"Respect won five seats on Bradford Council in May 2012 following Galloway's success in the by-election at the end of March. Amid a fiercely fought campaign, there were claims and complaints of violence and harassment by the Respect Party and its opponents. The party came second in Oldham's Werneth ward and Tower Hamlets' Weavers ward. After several months of inconclusive reports in the media, on 10 August 2013, the Bradford ""Telegraph & Argus"" reported that Galloway might not be a candidate in Bradford at the 2015 general election and instead stand in the 2016 London Mayoral election. The five Respect"
"Galloway (UK Parliament constituency) Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system. It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency. General Election 1939/40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from"
"in the Bethnal Green constituency. In a secretly recorded speech at a dinner shortly after his election, Galloway said that the involvement of the IFE had played ""the decisive role"" in his win. Although the IFE itself denied the accusation, Galloway admitted in a statement that the allegation was true. The Respect Party split in the autumn of 2007, with the Socialist Workers' Party and Galloway's wing of Respect blaming each other for what he described as a ""car crash on the left"". Galloway did not seek re-election in Bethnal Green and Bow at the 2010 general election, instead opting"