Brent North | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Population | 128,484 (2011 census) [1] |
Electorate | 82,648 (December 2010) [2] |
Major settlements | Wembley, Kingsbury, Sudbury, Alperton, Kenton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Barry Gardiner (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Wembley North Wembley South |
Brent North is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Barry Gardiner of the Labour Party. [n 2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes and will be renamed Brent West , to be first contested at the 2024 general election. [3]
Created in 1974 from the former seats of Wembley North and Wembley South, Brent North was a Conservative seat until 1997, held by Lancastrian former headmaster Rhodes Boyson with initially two fairly small 14% margins [n 3] before the Conservative-dominated period beginning in 1979 which gave Boyson larger majorities until Labour won the seat in 1997. At the general elections of 1997 and 2001, Brent North produced the highest swing to Labour nationally. [4] The winning candidate in 1997 was Glasgow-born Barry Gardiner, the youngest mayor of Cambridge in its history and former academic, who has held the seat ever since. The Liberal Democrats and their two predecessor parties (Liberal and SDP) amassed their largest share of the vote in 1974. Labour's percentage majority almost halved at the 2005 general election from 30.1% to 15.8% and fell slightly to 15.4% in 2010, faced with a new Conservative challenger, Harshadbhai Patel. [5] The Labour Party vote increased in both the 2015 and 2017 general elections and then dramatically decreased to a 15.8% margin in 2019.
1974–1983: The London Borough of Brent wards of Barnhill, Fryent, Kenton, Kingsbury, Preston, Queensbury, Roe Green, St Andrew's, Sudbury, Sudbury Court, and Tokyngton.
1983–1997: The London Borough of Brent wards of Barnhill, Fryent, Kenton, Kingsbury, Preston, Queensbury, Roe Green, St Andrew's, Sudbury, and Sudbury Court.
1997–2010: The London Borough of Brent wards of Barnhill, Fryent, Kenton, Kingsbury, Preston, Queensbury, Roe Green, Sudbury, and Sudbury Court.
2010–2024: The London Borough of Brent wards of Alperton, Barnhill, Fryent, Kenton, Northwick Park, Preston, Queensbury, Sudbury, and Wembley Central.
Most of the remaining wards in the London Borough of Brent are in the Brent Central constituency, with the exception of the wards of Brondesbury Park, Kilburn and Queens Park, which form part of the Hampstead and Kilburn seat.
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Sir Rhodes Boyson | Conservative | |
1997 | Barry Gardiner | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber [7] | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 26,911 | 51.9 | -11.0 | |
Conservative | Anjana Patel | 18,832 | 36.3 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 4,065 | 7.8 | +4.9 | |
Brexit Party | Suzie O'Brien | 951 | 1.8 | New | |
Green | Simon Rebbitt | 850 | 1.6 | +0.4 | |
Independent | Noel Coonan | 169 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Elcena Jeffers | 101 | 0.2 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 8,079 | 15.6 | -14.6 | ||
Turnout | 51,879 | 61.9 | -6.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -7.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 35,496 | 62.9 | +8.6 | |
Conservative | Ameet Jogia | 18,435 | 32.7 | -0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 1,614 | 2.9 | -2.1 | |
Green | Michaela Lichten | 660 | 1.2 | -1.7 | |
Independent | Elcena Jeffers | 239 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 17,061 | 30.2 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 56,444 | 68.4 | +4.9 | ||
Registered electors | 82,567 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 28,351 | 54.3 | +7.4 | |
Conservative | Luke Parker | 17,517 | 33.5 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 2,607 | 5.0 | −12.0 | |
UKIP | Alan Craig | 2,024 | 3.9 | +3.2 | |
Green | Scott Bartle | 1,539 | 2.9 | +1.5 | |
Independent | Elcena Jeffers | 197 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 10,834 | 20.8 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 52,235 | 63.5 | +1.2 | ||
Registered electors | 82,196 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 24,514 | 46.9 | −2.5 | |
Conservative | Harshadbhai Patel | 16,486 | 31.5 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Allie | 8,879 | 17.0 | +2.1 | |
Independent | Atiq Malik | 734 | 1.4 | New | |
Green | Martin Francis | 725 | 1.4 | New | |
UKIP | Sunita Webb | 380 | 0.7 | New | |
Brent North Needs An Independent MP | Jannen Vamadeva | 333 | 0.6 | New | |
English Democrat | Arvind Tailor | 247 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 8,028 | 15.4 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 52,298 | 62.3 | +3.9 | ||
Registered electors | 83,896 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 17,420 | 48.8 | −10.6 | |
Conservative | Bob Blackman | 11,779 | 33.0 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Havard M. Hughes | 5,672 | 15.9 | +4.6 | |
Peace and Progress | Babar Ahmad | 685 | 1.9 | New | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Rainbow George Weiss | 126 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 5,641 | 15.8 | -14.3 | ||
Turnout | 35,682 | 59.3 | +1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 60,148 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −7.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 20,149 | 59.4 | +8.7 | |
Conservative | Philip Allott | 9,944 | 29.3 | −10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 3,846 | 11.3 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 10,205 | 30.1 | +19.6 | ||
Turnout | 33,939 | 57.7 | −12.8 | ||
Registered electors | 58,789 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 19,343 | 50.7 | +20.4 | |
Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 15,324 | 40.2 | −17.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 3,104 | 8.1 | −2.5 | |
Natural Law | Tony F. Davids | 204 | 0.5 | -0.3 | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | George F. Clark | 199 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 4,019 | 10.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 38,174 | 70.5 | −0.1 | ||
Registered electors | 54,149 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +18.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 23,445 | 56.2 | −3.7 | |
Labour | James Moher | 13,314 | 31.9 | +7.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 4,149 | 10.0 | -5.3 | |
Independent | Thakore Vipul | 356 | 0.9 | New | |
Natural Law | Tony F. Davids | 318 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 10,131 | 24.3 | -10.8 | ||
Turnout | 41,582 | 70.6 | -0.4 | ||
Registered electors | 58,917 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 26,823 | 59.9 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Praful Patel | 11,103 | 24.8 | +1.7 | |
SDP | Christopher Mularczyk | 6,868 | 15.3 | −5.3 | |
Majority | 15,720 | 35.1 | +1.9 | ||
Turnout | 44,794 | 71.0 | +0.6 | ||
Registered electors | 63,081 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 24,842 | 56.3 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Sandra Jackson | 10,191 | 23.1 | −8.2 | |
SDP | Thomas Mann | 9,082 | 20.6 | New | |
Majority | 14,651 | 33.2 | +12.6 | ||
Turnout | 44,115 | 70.4 | −6.3 | ||
Registered electors | 62,679 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 29,995 | 54.2 | +6.3 | |
Labour | John Lebor [15] | 18,612 | 33.6 | −0.2 | |
Liberal | Andrew T. Ketteringham | 5,872 | 10.6 | −5.1 | |
National Front | Graham John [15] | 873 | 1.6 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 11,383 | 20.6 | +6.5 | ||
Turnout | 55,352 | 76.7 | +4.8 | ||
Registered electors | 72,158 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 24,853 | 47.9 | +3.3 | |
Labour | T.J.C. Goudie | 17,541 | 33.8 | +2.9 | |
Liberal | F. Harrison | 8,158 | 15.7 | −6.1 | |
National Front | J. Cattanach | 1,297 | 2.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 7,312 | 14.1 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 51,849 | 71.9 | −8.6 | ||
Registered electors | 72,122 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rhodes Boyson | 25,700 | 44.6 | ||
Labour | T.J.C. Goudie | 17,759 | 30.9 | ||
Liberal | F. Harrison | 12,537 | 21.8 | ||
National Front | A. Smith | 1,570 | 2.7 | ||
Majority | 7,941 | 13.7 | |||
Turnout | 57,566 | 80.5 | |||
Registered electors | 71,494 | ||||
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