Deirdre Costigan | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Ealing Southall | |
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Virendra Sharma |
| Majority | 15,793 (33.7%) |
| Member of Ealing London Borough Council for Northolt Mandeville | |
| Assumed office 3 May 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
Deirdre Theresa Costigan [1] is an Irish politician who has been the Labour Party MP for Ealing Southall since 2024. [2]
She is openly LGBTQI+ [3]
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Southall is a large suburban town in West London,England,part of the London Borough of Ealing and is one of its seven major towns.
Piara Singh Khabra was a Punjabi-British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall from 1992 until his death. He was the fifth British Asian,and the first Sikh,to become a British MP.
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Ealing,Southall is a constituency created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Deirdre Costigan of the Labour Party.
The region of Greater London,including the City of London,is divided into 75 parliamentary constituencies which are sub-classified as borough constituencies,affecting the type of electoral officer and level of expenses permitted.
Avtar Singh Lit was a British businessman who was the owner and chairman of Sunrise Radio Group. He was listed by AIM magazine as one of the "20 most powerful Asians in British media" in 2005,and was said to have amassed a big personal fortune. He was declared bankrupt by the High Court in 2014,having lost five companies which went into administration.
Norwood Green is a place in the London Borough of Ealing in London,England,that forms the southern part of Southall. It is a suburban development centred 10.7 miles (17.2 km) west of Charing Cross and 4 miles (6.4 km) ENE of Heathrow Airport.
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Sydney James Bidwell was a British Labour politician.
Southall was a constituency from 1945 to 1983. It returned one member (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The Labour Party candidate won the seat at each general election and no by-elections took place.
Virendra Kumar Sharma is a British-Indian Labour Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall from 2007 to 2024.
The 2007 Ealing Southall by-election was a by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Ealing Southall,in west London. It was held on 19 July 2007.
Sonika Nirwal was a senior Ealing Southall constituency Labour politician representing the Greenford Broadway ward. In 2006 she was elected as the leader of the Ealing Labour group,the first Asian women to have done so in British politics,and was widely expected to succeed MP Piara Khabra as the next Labour Member of Parliament for the said constituency.
Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician and general practitioner who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2022 to 2023. He was Deputy Chair of the London Assembly from 2023 to 2024,and the first Labour member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon,from 2012 until 2024.
Ealing London Borough Council,which styles itself Ealing Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Ealing in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2010. The council meets at Ealing Town Hall and has its main offices in the adjoining Perceval House.
The 1964 Ealing Council election took place on 7 May 1964 to elect members of Ealing London Borough Council in London,England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour Party gained control of the council.
The 2022 Ealing London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022,under new election boundaries,which increased the number of Ealing London Borough Council councillors to 70. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
Bassam Mahfouz is a British politician serving as Member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon since 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has served as a Member of Ealing Council since 2005.