George Galloway
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Galloway at a Stop the War event in February 2007
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Member of Parliament for Bradford West |
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In office 29 March 2012 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Marsha Singh |
| Succeeded by | Naz Shah |
| Majority | 10,140 (30.9%) |
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Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow |
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In office 6 May 2005 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Oona King |
| Succeeded by | Rushanara Ali |
| Majority | 823 (1.9%) |
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Member of Parliament for Glasgow Kelvin |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Majority | 7,260 (27.1%) |
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Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead |
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In office 12 June 1987 – 4 April 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Jenkins |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Majority | 4,826 (12.3%) |
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16 August 1954 Dundee, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
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Labour (1967–2003) Respect (2004–2016) |
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| Domestic partner | Amineh Abu-Zayyad (1994–2000) |
| Children | 1 daughter and 3 sons |
| Residence | London, England |
| Website | www |
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. Between the general elections in 1987 and 2015, with a gap between 2010 and 2012, 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 he was elected as a Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead at the 1987 general election. From 1997, Galloway represented its successor constituency Glasgow Kelvin, and remained as the MP for the seat until the 2005 general election. In October 2003, Galloway was expelled from the Labour Party, having been found guilty by the party's national constitutional committee of four of the five charges of bringing the party into disrepute. Although a number of Labour MPs opposed the Iraq War, Galloway was the only one to be expelled from the party for his statements concerning the conflict. He was also accused in 2003 of calling on Arabs to fight British troops, one of the reasons given for his expulsion.
In 2004, he became a member of Respect–The Unity Coalition, later known as the Respect Party (eventually becoming its leader by late 2013), and was elected as MP for Bethnal Green and Bow at the general election the following year.
Galloway stood for election as a Respect Party candidate in the London Assembly election, 2008, but was not selected. After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Poplar and Limehouse in the 2010 General Election, where he came third, with 17.5% of the vote, he stood as a Respect candidate for Glasgow electoral region in the Scottish Parliament general election, 2011, but failed to win the seat, receiving 6,972 votes (3.3%). He returned to Westminster at the Bradford West by-election in 2012. He lost his seat at the 2015 general election, after a campaign in which he was accused of making false statements about the successful Labour candidate, Naz Shah, and was reported to the police for allegedly breaking election law. During the general election campaign, Galloway announced that if he lost Bradford West, he would stand in the election for London Mayor in 2016. Galloway was accused of making "cutting personal attacks" about Labour's Mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan. However, Khan was elected as Mayor, while Galloway came seventh, on 1.4% of the vote. In the 2016 EU membership referendum, he backed the Grassroots Out campaign which advocated a "Leave" vote.
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