diff --git a/src/cluster.c b/src/cluster.c
index 1a3a348b..50a9ae68 100644
--- a/src/cluster.c
+++ b/src/cluster.c
@@ -3031,6 +3031,7 @@ void clusterHandleSlaveFailover(void) {
         if (server.cluster->mf_end) {
             server.cluster->failover_auth_time = mstime();
             server.cluster->failover_auth_rank = 0;
+	    clusterDoBeforeSleep(CLUSTER_TODO_HANDLE_FAILOVER);
         }
         serverLog(LL_WARNING,
             "Start of election delayed for %lld milliseconds "