A Bradford councillor who stood for the Peace Party in yesterday’s Middlesbrough parliamentary by-election for the Peace Party came in fifth out of eight candidates.
Labour comfortably held on to the seat with a 49 per cent majority and UKIP came second.
Former Middlesbrough councillor Andy McDonald took 10.201 votes, more than 8,000 ahead of UKIP’s Richard Elvin on 1,990.
The Liberal Democrats came third, with the Conservatives fourth, only three votes ahead of Bradford Councillor Imdad Hussain, who recently switched to the Peace Party.
Coun Hussain polled 1,060 and six per cent of the votes, meaning he held on to his deposit.
The turnout was 26 per cent.
Coun Hussain resigned from the Labour Party earlier this month following his suspension for two years after it found he failed to disclose he had been banned as a company director.
He continued to sit as an independent representing the Heaton ward while an investigation by the party took place. But in September the Labour Party found he had breached party rules and suspended him until 2014.
He then announced his resignation and joined the Peace Party, becoming the party’s only councillor on Bradford Council.
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