Three Afghan Candidates Fail to Secure Seats in UK Parliament
Three Afghan candidates were unable to secure seats in the recent UK Parliamentary elections.
Three Afghan candidates were unable to secure seats in the recent UK Parliamentary elections.
Labour Party candidate Rohullah Yakobi with over 15,000 votes; Liberal Democrats candidate Eraj Rostaqi with over 4,000 votes; and Workers' Party candidate Sirajul Haq Parwani with 723 votes, were all defeated in the latest elections.
According to the election results, Yakobi lost to his Conservative rival by a margin of 880 votes, securing 15,437 votes in his constituency and finishing second. Yakobi, who arrived in the UK as a refugee in 2004, is the first Hazara candidate for the UK Parliament.
In this election, Rostaqi lost to his Labour rival by a margin of over 20,000 votes, securing 4,292 votes in his constituency and finishing fourth.
Meanwhile, Parwani lost to his Conservative rival by a margin of nearly 25,000 votes, securing 723 votes in his constituency and finishing seventh. Parwani stated on his X account that he previously served as the Deputy Spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Charge d'Affaires at the Afghan Embassy in Greece.
While these three Afghan candidates were not elected, nearly 90 representatives from racial minorities residing in the UK were elected to Parliament in this round.
