Brent East (UK Parliament constituency)
Brent East | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Brent East in Greater London for the 2005 general election | |
County | Greater London |
1974–2010 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Willesden West |
Replaced by | Brent Central, Hampstead and Kilburn |
Brent East was a parliamentary constituency in northwest London; it was replaced by Brent Central for the 2010 general election. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The London Borough of Brent wards of Brentwater, Brondesbury Park, Carlton, Church End, Cricklewood, Gladstone, Kilburn, Mapesbury, Queen's Park, and Willesden Green.
1983-2010: The London Borough of Brent wards of Brentwater, Brondesbury Park, Carlton, Chamberlayne, Church End, Cricklewood, Gladstone, Kilburn, Mapesbury, Queen's Park, and Willesden Green.
The constituency was one of three covering the London Borough of Brent in north-west London. It covered the south-east of the borough, including the areas of Brondesbury, Dollis Hill, Kilburn and Neasden, as well as parts of Willesden and Cricklewood.
History
The constituency was created in 1974 and first contested in the February general election of that year. An ethnically diverse area, it was previously one of the Labour Party's safest seats in London. It was held by Reg Freeson from 1974 until 1987, then by Ken Livingstone (following the abolition of the Greater London Council, of which he was leader, in 1986).
After Livingstone was expelled from the Labour Party for standing as an independent candidate for Mayor of London in 2000, he represented the constituency as an independent until standing down as MP in 2001 to concentrate on his position as Mayor. Labour retained the seat at the 2001 general election, with Paul Daisley holding the seat until his death two years later.
The resulting Brent East by-election was held on 18 September 2003, with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq as a background. Labour lost the seat to Sarah Teather of the Liberal Democrats, with a considerable 29% swing, having come from a distant third place in 2001.[1] Teather held the seat at the 2005 general election, with an increased majority of 8.7%
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Feb 1974 | Reg Freeson | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1987 | Ken Livingstone | Labour |
2000 | Independent | ||
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2001 | Paul Daisley | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | 2003 by-election | Sarah Teather | Liberal Democrat |
2010 | constituency abolished: see Brent Central & Hampstead and Kilburn |
Election results
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Sarah Teather | 14,764 | 47.5 | +36.9 | |
Labour | Yasmin Qureshi | 12,052 | 38.8 | −24.4 | |
Conservative | Kwasi Kwarteng | 3,193 | 10.3 | –7.9 | |
Green | Shahrar Ali | 905 | 2.9 | –1.8 | |
Independent | Mrs. Michelle A. Weininger | 115 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Rainbow George Weiss | 39 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,712 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 31,068 | 55.3 | +3.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +29.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Sarah Teather | 8,158 | 39.1 | +28.5 | |
Labour | Robert Evans | 7,040 | 33.8 | −29.4 | |
Conservative | Mrs. Uma M. Fernandes | 3,368 | 16.2 | −2.0 | |
Green | Noel Lynch | 638 | 3.1 | −1.6 | |
Socialist Alliance | Brian Butterworth | 361 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Public Services Not War | Fawzi Ibrahim | 219 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Winston McKenzie | 197 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Miss Kelly McBride | 189 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Harold L. Immanuel | 188 | 0.9 | N/A | |
UKIP | Brian J. Hall | 140 | 0.7 | +0.1 | |
Socialist Labour | Mrs Iris M.J. Cremer | 111 | 0.5 | −0.8 | |
Independent | Neil F. Walsh | 101 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Alan Hope | 59 | 0.3 | N/A | |
No label | Aaron Barschak | 37 | 0.2 | N/A | |
No label | Jitendra J.N. Bardwaj | 35 | 0.2 | N/A | |
www.xat.org | Rainbow George Weiss | 11 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,118 | 5.4 | |||
Turnout | 20,752 | 36.2 | −15.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | +29.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Daisley | 18,325 | 63.2 | −4.1 | |
Conservative | David Gauke | 5,278 | 18.2 | −4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Miss Norsheen M. Bhatti | 3,065 | 10.6 | +2.8 | |
Green | Miss Simone F. Aspis | 1,361 | 4.7 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Miss Sarah Macken | 392 | 1.4 | +0.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Mrs Iris M.J. Cremer | 383 | 1.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | Ashwin Tanna | 188 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,047 | 45.0 | 0 | ||
Turnout | 28,992 | 51.9 | −14.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 0 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Livingstone | 23,748 | 67.3 | +14.5 | |
Conservative | Mark Francois | 7,866 | 22.3 | −14.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian M.C. Hunter | 2,751 | 7.8 | −1.1 | |
Socialist Labour | Stan E. Keable | 466 | 1.3 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Andrew J. Shanks | 218 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Miss Claire M. Warrilow | 120 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Dean Jenkins | 103 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,882 | 45.0 | |||
Turnout | 35,272 | 65.9 | −2.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +14.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Livingstone | 19,387 | 52.8 | +10.2 | |
Conservative | Damian Green | 13,416 | 36.6 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Cummins | 3,249 | 8.9 | −5.6 | |
Green | Miss Theresa M. Deen | 548 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Communist | Mrs. Anne G. Murphy | 96 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,971 | 16.3 | |||
Turnout | 36,696 | 68.8 | +4.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ken Livingstone | 16,772 | 42.6 | −4.4 | |
Conservative | Miss Harriet Spencer Crawley | 15,119 | 38.4 | +3.8 | |
SDP | Daniel Finkelstein | 5,710 | 14.5 | −2.4 | |
Independent Labour | Riaz Querishi Dooley | 1,035 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Green | Miles Litvnoff | 716 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,653 | 4.2 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 39,352 | 64.5 | +0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reginald Freeson | 18,363 | 47.0 | −6.3 | |
Conservative | R.M. Lacey | 13,529 | 34.6 | −2.1 | |
SDP | Dr MH Rosen[4] | 6,598 | 16.9 | N/A | |
Independent | James O'Leary | 289 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Gerald Downing | 222 | 0.6 | −0.2 | |
Independent | K. Radclyffe | 88 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,834 | 12.4 | |||
Turnout | 39,088 | 63.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | − |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reginald Freeson | 20,351 | 53.3 | −0.7 | |
Conservative | John Howes | 14,008 | 36.7 | +6.2 | |
Liberal | Chris Wilding | 2,799 | 7.3 | −4.3 | |
National Front | J. Davies | 706 | 1.9 | −1.0 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Gerald Downing | 290 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,343 | 16.6 | |||
Turnout | 38,155 | 66.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | − |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reginald Freeson | 20,481 | 54.0 | +4.7 | |
Conservative | Michael Knowles | 11,554 | 30.5 | −1.0 | |
Liberal | P. O'Brien | 4,416 | 11.6 | −7.6 | |
National Front | N. Lyons | 1,096 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Irish Civil Rights | J. Curran | 382 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,927 | 23.5 | |||
Turnout | 37,929 | 60.0 | −8.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reginald Freeson | 21,063 | 49.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | G.K. Young | 13,441 | 31.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | W. Perry | 8,204 | 19.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,622 | 17.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,708 | 68.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Webster, Philip; Hurst, Greg (19 September 2003). "The Times report on by-election result". London. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
- ^ PoliticsResources.net
- ^ http://www.election.demon.co.uk/1983LB.html
- ^ PoliticsResources.net
- ^ a b PoliticsResources.net