Pro-Palestine candidate wins with thumping majority in UK's Dewsbury & Batley

Pro-Palestine candidate Iqbal Hussain Mohamed was elected to parliament with an overwhelming majority in the West Yorkshire constituency of Dewsbury & Batley on Friday, with a resounding victory over Labour's Heather Iqbal.

Mohamed secured 15,641 votes, winning with 41.1 percent of the total vote share, while Labour's Iqbal received 8,707 votes, or 22.9 percent of the vote share.

Johnathan Thackray from the Reform party came third with 6,152 votes while the Tory candidate, Lalit Suryawanshi, came fourth, with 4,182 votes. 

Mohamed, who was born and raised in Dewsbury, is an engineer and IT consultant whose parents arrived from India in the 1960s.

Formerly a Labour member, he quit over Keir Starmer's early support for Israel’s war on Gaza after the 7 October attacks on southern Israel. 

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