Brent West | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Brent West in Greater London | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 76,463 (March 2020) [1] |
Borough | Brent |
Major settlements | Wembley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Barry Gardiner (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Brent Central & Brent North |
Brent West is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Created as a result of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, Barry Gardiner of the Labour Party has been its MP since the 2024 general election. Gardiner represented the predecessor seat of Brent North from 1997 to 2024.
The constituency comprises the following wards of the London Borough of Brent (as they existed on 4 May 2022): [3] [4]
The seat comprises the majority of the abolished constituency of Brent North, together with a small part (Tokyngton and Wembley Park) of Brent Central (also abolished).
Brent West covers the ethnically diverse and mostly Labour-leaning area of Wembley. This is one of the poorer seats in Greater London. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Barry Gardiner | 17,258 | 41.7 | –11.6 | |
Conservative | Sushil Rapatwar | 13,465 | 32.5 | –1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Lorber | 3,013 | 7.3 | –1.8 | |
Green | Bastôn De'Medici-Jaguar | 2,805 | 6.8 | +5.1 | |
Workers Party | Nadia Klok | 2,774 | 6.7 | N/A | |
Reform UK | Ian Collier | 2,061 | 5.0 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 3,793 | 9.2 | –10.3 | ||
Turnout | 41,376 | 51.8 | –11.5 | ||
Registered electors | 79,937 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
2019 notional result [n 1] [7] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 25,792 | 53.3 | |
Conservative | 16,361 | 33.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 4,408 | 9.1 | |
Green | 826 | 1.7 | |
Brexit Party | 750 | 1.5 | |
Others | 270 | 0.5 | |
Majority | 9,431 | 19.5 | |
Turnout | 48,407 | 63.3 | |
Electorate | 76,463 |