If I get a moment I'll put up a detailed table of results, but the main news from Ealing is that Ealing Central and Acton has turned blue. Notionally this new seat was very marginal, and as of last night it wasn't altogether clear which way it was going to go. But at 8:25 this morning it was declared for Angie Bray, former Tory leader of the London Assembly, with 17,944 votes on a high turnout of 67%. Labour's Bassam Mahfouz came in second with 14,228 votes. Jon Ball of the Lib Dems came a close third with 13,041 votes. This represented a swing of 5% to the Tories.
Elsewhere, Steve Pound, in spite of a spirited campaign from Tory Ian Gibb, comfortably held Ealing North with 50% of the vote, and no swing to the Conservatives.
As expected, in Ealing Southall, Virendra Sharma held his safe Labour seat in spite of a heavy swing to the Tories of of 8.3%. He polled 22,024 votes with the Conservatives coming second with 12,733.
The council election vote is currently being counted.
UPDATE: for Council election results, click here
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Virendra Sharma is an absolute disgrace. I cannot believe he was elected having done basically no campaigning whatsoever...
ReplyDeleteHe wouldn't be my first choice either. But get used to him: Ealing Southall is a very safe Labour seat. Like his predecessor, Sharma will be happily occupying it until he shuffles off this mortal coil.
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