Roshanara Ali, the first British MP of Bangladeshi origin, has been elected as an MP for the fifth consecutive term from the Labor Party in the UK elections. But this time he has won by a small margin.
Roshanara Ali was elected for the fifth time from the Bethnal Green and Stepney seat in Tower Hamlets with 15,896 votes. Her closest independent candidate, British Bangladeshi Ajmal Mashroor, got 14,207 votes. In the end, Ajmal Mashroor was able to pull the votes of all the opposition parties and showed a surprise by emerging in the fierce competition.
Another Bangladeshi candidate, Rabina Khan, candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party, came third with 4,777 votes. The other two independent Bangladeshi candidates of this seat, Sam Uddin 325 and Md Suman Ahmed 315 votes.