Rupa Huq Wins Ealing Central and Acton With Comfort
Majority slightly reduced despite failure of Tory to increase vote share
Rupa Huq
Rupa Huq has retained her seat in Ealing Central and Acton with a slightly reduced majority gaining 28,132 votes.
She beat off the challenge from the Conservative candidate Julian Gallant who came second. The fall in the sitting Labour's majority came, however, as a result of an increased vote for the Liberal Democrats and the Greens rather than a recovery in the Tory vote which fell by over 4,000 during a night of gains for the party across the country. The Brexit Party candidate only managed 664 votes.
After the announcement Ms Huq said, "I want to thank the people of Ealing, Acton and Chiswick, not once, not twice, but three times.
"I'm proud of what we achieved together.”
Labour's Rupa Huq won the seat in 2017 with 33,037 votes giving her nearly 60% of the vote in a constituency that she had previously held with a narrow majority. In that election she had benefited from leading figures in the Liberal Democrats urging their members to vote for her. This time around the Lib Dems fought an aggressive campaign attracting criticism for some of the claims made in their campaign material in which they used the results from the European elections to claim they could win the seat.
| Ealing Central and Acton - General Election 2019 | ||||||
Candidate |
Party |
Votes 2015 |
Votes 2017 |
Votes 2019 |
% | Change |
Rupa Huq |
Labour Party |
22,000 |
33,037 |
28,132 |
51.3 |
-8.4 |
Julian Gallant |
Conservative |
21,728 |
19,230 |
14,832 |
27.1 |
-7.7 |
Sonul Badiani |
Liberal Democrat |
3,106 |
3,075 |
9,444 |
17.2 |
+11.7 |
| Kate Crossland | Green | - | - | 1,735 |
3.2 |
+3.2 |
| Samir Alsoodani | Brexit | - | - | 664 |
1.2 |
+1.2 |
Majority |
13,807 |
13,300 |
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Turnout |
72.6% |
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The constituency which was formed in 2010 voted 70.85% to remain in the EU Referendum and concern had been raised by some that a split in the remain vote might let the Tory candidate in by the back door.
The Conservative candidate Joy Morrisey who was defeated by Rupa Huq in 2017 won the Beaconsfied seat in this election.
| Ealing Central and Acton - General Election 2017 | |||||
Candidate |
Party |
Votes 2015 |
Votes 2017 |
% | Change |
Huq, Rupa |
Labour Party |
22,000 |
33,037 |
59.7 |
+16.5 |
Morrissey, Joy |
Conservative |
21,728 |
19,230 |
34.7 |
-8.0 |
Ball, Jon |
Liberal Democrat |
3,106 |
3,075 |
5.6 |
-0.5 |
Majority |
274 |
13,807 |
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Turnout |
71.4 |
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December 14, 2019