POLITICIAN George Galloway is never far from the headlines and came third in the Batley and Spen by-election in Yorkshire.

The former Labour MP is currently the leader of the left-wing Workers Party.

Who are George Galloway's ex-wives?

Galloway, 66, has been married four times.

Elaine Fyffe

The pair had been teenage sweetheart before they got married in 1979 and they had one daughter together.

They separated in 1987 and were divorced in 1999.

Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad

Microbiologist Dr Abu-Zayyad is of Palestinian origin and was born in 1969 in Jerusalem.

The pair first met at a political meeting in Glasgow in 1991 and she worked as a lecturer at Glasgow University.

She later described Galloway as “my hero” and had done “such a lot for the Palestinians”.

The then MP described her as the "voice of absolute calm in my life".

They married in a non-legally binding Islamic ceremony in 1994.

The pair held a legally binding civil ceremony in Lambeth in March 2000.

In February 2009 Dr Abu-Zayyad was granted a divorce after an estrangement of several years, on the grounds of "unreasonable behaviour".

The petition was not contested.

Rima Husseini

Lebanese Husseini married Galloway in a non-legally binding Islamic ceremony in 2005.

She was his former researcher.

They had two sons together.

Husseini launched a bitter attack on Galloway just four months after she had given birth to their second son, saying she was still married to him.

Putri Gayatri Pertiwi

Galloway married his current wife on March 31, 2012 in an Islamic ceremony in Amsterdam.

Dutch-born Pertiwi who has Indonesian heritage studied cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht.

They met when she helped out with his charity Viva Palestina.

The initial ceremony was followed by a traditional Javanese ceremony in Sumatra and a civil ceremony in the House of Commons in September 2012.

Pertiwi works as a consultant for a Dutch research firm and as a co-presenter of Galloway's TV show Sputnik.

They have three children together.

How many kids does he have?

Galloway's first wife Fyffe gave birth to his first daughter Lucy in 1982.

He had two sons with his third wife Husseini – Zein was born in 2007 and Faris in 2011.

Galloway has three children with his fourth wife Pertiwi.

A son, Toren Mustaqim, was born in July 2014; a daughter Orla Dhien was born in 2017.

Speaking after the birth of his fifth child he said: “It used to be the tradition of Irish Catholic immigrants to have six children, so I'm not stopping here.

“As long as God gives me breath – and energy – there will be more. It's the best thing that ever happened to me.

“There's nothing that keeps you young like your children climbing over your face in the morning to wake you up. It's life-enhancing.”

Another daughter Oban Amaria was born in August 2020.

After the birth of his sixth child Galloway tweeted: “We are delighted to announce the natural home-birth of our third child -a girl – at 1.41am -8lbs 6oz.

“Mother and baby are both doing well. Pictures later! She has three brothers and two sisters by the grace of God. Huge thanks to the truly wonderful midwives Karen and Lucy.”

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