2012 Bradford West by-election
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On 29 March 2012, a by-election was held for the House of Commons constituency of Bradford West. It was unexpectedly[1] won by George Galloway of the Respect Party who defeated the Labour Party candidate by a large margin in a result referred to by Galloway as the "Bradford Spring" (by analogy with the Arab Spring).[2] Galloway said the election result was Bradford's "peaceful democratic uprising" version of the riots which swept through England in August 2011.[3]
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The result was such a surprise as to cause the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to commission a report to study the campaign.[4][5]