Britain's Youngest ever Independent Councilor

British-Bangladeshi Ismail Elected Britain's Youngest ever Independent Councilor

May 04, 2024
  • British-Bangladeshi Ismail Elected Britain's Youngest ever Independent Councilor

British- Bangladeshi Ismail Uddin has shown surprise by being elected as an independent councilor without any party at the age of 19 in the announced results of local government elections in Britain.

Britain's local government election results announced on Friday 4th May showed that ,the two major political partie, including Labor and the Conservatives,and also defeated candidates from political parties in the Bowling and Barkerend wards of Bradford,and he was Elected.

After winning, he said, he is grateful to the voters, his family and God Almighty for being elected as the youngest independent councilor in Britain.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the success of independent candidates in many of Bradford’s inner-city wards was due to dissatisfaction with how the national Labour Party has handled the war in Gaza.

Among those successful candidates were three young people - Mohammed Ali Islam, 20, Ismail Uddin,19, and 18-year-old Atira Malik, who is studying for her A-Levels.

They were met with cheering crowds outside, with Mohammed Ali Islam carried out of the election count on the shoulders of supporters.