Pro-Gaza candidates are picking up the Labor vote in Muslim areas

In Birmingham, Perry Barr, Labor MP Khalid Mahmood lost to independent Ayoub Khan by 507 votes.

Meanwhile, independent candidates who made the Gaza conflict central to their campaign won in Dewsbury and Batley, as well as Blackburn, which previously had healthy Labor majorities.

Other senior Labor figures from areas with large Muslim populations took their seats only after seeing their majorities crushed.

In Ilford North, independent candidate Leanne Mohamad, who is the granddaughter of Palestinian refugees, was just 528 votes behind Mr Streeting.

In Birmingham Ladywood, shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood managed to mount a challenge from independent candidate and barrister Akhmed Yakoob, who has a massive TikTok following.

However, her majority fell from over 32,000 to 3,421.

Jody McIntyre, who represented Mr Galloway’s UK Labor Party, came second.

Ms Phillips faced boos and boos as she delivered her speech after the result, describing the campaign as “the worst election I’ve ever been in” and claiming her campaigners had faced intimidation and violence.

In Bethnal Green and Stepney, east London, shadow small business minister Rushnara Ali, who was commanding a majority of more than 31,000, beat independent candidate Ajmal Masroor by just 1,689 votes.

In his own count, Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer faced the “Free Palestine” rant and saw his majority reduced, with pro-Gaza independent Andrew Feinsten coming second with 7,312 votes.

Mr Corbyn beat the Labor candidate by more than 7,000 votes.

However, in Rochdale, Labour’s Paul Waugh ousted Labor leader Mr Galloway just months after winning the seat in a by-election dominated by the Gaza conflict.

Labor has faced increasing pressure on its stance on the conflict since Israel launched a military campaign in response to the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7.

In its manifesto, Labor pledged to recognize a Palestinian state.

Last year, Sir Keir came under fire after he appeared to say Israel had the “right” to cut off water and power to Gaza.

He later clarified that he only meant that the country has the right to self-defense.