Four Pakistani-origin candidates have so far won seats in the local elections in England, according to British media.
A large number of Pakistani-origin candidates also took part in the polls, reflecting the community’s continued role in local British politics.
Barrister Asif Siddique was elected as a councillor for the third time from Central London. His latest victory marks another successful local election result for a Pakistani-origin candidate in the UK.
Labour candidates win key seats
Pakistani-origin Atta-ur-Rasoul won from St. Patrick on a Labour Party ticket. Labour Party candidate Zarar Qayyum also won his seat from Shepherds Bush Green.
Alia Afzal Khan secured victory from Palace and Hurlingham. According to British media, she won the seat with 55% of the vote.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on to deliver on his promise to bring "change" to Britain after his Labour Party suffered heavy losses in local elections that deepened doubts over his ability to govern.
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Just under two years after winning a landslide national election, Starmer saw voters punish his Labour government, dealing it a blow in some of its traditional strongholds in former industrial regions in central and northern England.
The main beneficiary was the populist Reform UK party of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 350 council seats in England, and could form the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru in results later on Friday.
The early results confirmed the fracturing of Britain's traditional two-party system into a multi-party democracy, in what analysts say represents one of the biggest transformations in British politics in the last century.
The once-dominant Labour and Conservative parties were losing votes to Reform, to the left-wing Green Party at the other end of the political spectrum, and to the nationalists in Scotland and Wales.
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