2024 Rochdale by-election

2024 Rochdale by-election

29 February 2024 (2024-02-29)

Rochdale constituency
Turnout39.7% ( 20.4 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Candidate George Galloway David Tully Paul Ellison
Party Workers Party Independent Conservative
Popular vote 12,335 6,638 3,731
Percentage 39.7% 21.3% 12.0%
Swing N/A N/A 19.2 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Candidate Azhar Ali Iain Donaldson Simon Danczuk
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Reform
Popular vote 2,402 2,164 1,968
Percentage 7.7% 7.0% 6.3%
Swing 43.9 pp pp 1.9 pp

Boundary of Rochdale in Greater Manchester

MP before election

Tony Lloyd
Labour

Elected MP

George Galloway
Workers

A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Rochdale was held on 29 February 2024, following the death of incumbent Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd. It was won by George Galloway of the Workers Party of Britain, who received 40% of the vote and overturned a 9,668 vote Labour majority from the 2019 general election.