Tulip, Rushanara, Rupa re-electedin UK polls

Desk Report:  Bangladeshi-origin candidates Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, Rushanara Ali and Rupa Huq were re-elected in UK national election, according to primary results.

Labour Party candidate Tulip Rizwana Siddiq was reelected with a huge margin in the United Kingdom snap general elections held on Thursday.

Tulip, Sheikh Rehana's daughter and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina niece, retained her Hampstead and Kilburn seat with a margin of 15,560 votes.

She polled 34,464 against her Conservative rival's Claire-Louise Leyland 18,904 in Hampstead and Kilburn seat.

Labour Party candidate Rupa Huq retained the Ealing Central and Acton seat for Labour with 33,037 votes while her counterpart Conservative Party candidate Joy Morrissey got 19,230 votes.

Her ancestral home is in Pabna district of Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, Rushanara Ali, the first British lawmaker with roots in Bangladesh, has secured a third consecutive victory in her safe Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in east London.

She got 42,969 votes while her nearest contestant of Conservative Party Charlotte Chirico managed 7,576 votes, according to the latest BBC polls result.



Risingbd/June 9, 2017/Mukul