Election 2010: Fitzpatrick wins Poplar
Labour's Jim Fitzpatrick has hung onto his Parliamentary seat and beat Respect's George Galloway into third in the process.
Mr Fitzpatrick polled 18,679 votes, while Conservative candidate Tim Archer came second with 12,649. Mr Galloway received 8,160 votes.
The new constituency was one of the most hotly contested in London. Mr Galloway, the former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, threatened to split the Labour vote but in the end his support proved too insubstantial.
Mr Fitzpatrick, who previously represented the old constituency of Poplar and Canning Town takes a majority of 6,030 into the Commons with him.
Turnout was 62.3 per cent, with 46,700 votes cast. The swing was one per cent from Conservative to Labour.
Result:
Jim Fitzpatrick (Lab) 18,679
Tim Archer (Con) 12,649
George Galloway (Resp) 8,160
Jonathan Fryer (LibDem) 5,029
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