{"id":49005,"date":"2019-05-06T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49005"},"modified":"2019-05-24T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:51:16","slug":"first-female-muslim-councillor-elected-in-worthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/first-female-muslim-councillor-elected-in-worthing\/","title":{"rendered":"First female Muslim councillor elected in Worthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-49006\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Henna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"532\" \/>A LABOUR candidate became Worthing\u2019s first female Muslim councillor. Henna Chowdhury was elected with 1,213 votes in Gaisford ward, unseating veteran Conservative councillor Bryan Turner to win a 300-seat majority. She was visibly overwhelmed when the results were announced at Worthing Assembly Hall yesterday to cheers from Labour activists. Ms Chowdhury said she had \u201cno words\u201d after the surprise upset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said: \u201cI never expected to get in, so to become the first female Muslim councillor is amazing. \u201cWe have all worked so hard for this, I was at the polling station from 7am to 10pm yesterday working hard and I received so much support. \u201cI said to my husband even if I didn\u2019t win, I would be so happy because of the respect I have got from the public. \u201cI have no words to explain what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Chowdhury was one of five Labour candidates to win a seat yesterday, four of who were women. The party now has ten councillors in Worthing, cutting the Conservative majority to seven.<br \/>\nLabour Beccy Cooper said: \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic that so many of our councillors are women, especially considering the stereotypical image of councillors. It\u2019s fantastic to see Henna win.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/first-female-muslim-councillor-elected-in-worthing\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A LABOUR candidate became Worthing\u2019s first female Muslim councillor. Henna Chowdhury was elected with 1,213 votes in Gaisford ward, unseating veteran Conservative councillor Bryan Turner to win a 300-seat majority. She was visibly overwhelmed when the results were announced at Worthing Assembly Hall yesterday to cheers from Labour activists. Ms Chowdhury said she had \u201cno &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,30],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49007,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005\/revisions\/49007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}