Emma Best | |
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Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party in the London Assembly | |
Assumed office 2 May 2023 | |
Leader | Neil Garratt |
Preceded by | Peter Fortune |
Member of the London Assembly for Londonwide | |
Assumed office 6 May 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 23 March 1991 London,England |
Political party | Conservative |
Website | www.emmabest.org.uk/ |
Emma Dawn Best (born 23 March 1991) is a British Conservative politician,serving as a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since 2021. [1]
She is currently a councillor on Waltham Forest Borough Council where she is Leader of the Conservative Group.
She served as a councillor in Redbridge for the Church End ward between 2014 and 2018.
In 2021,she stood in the North East London constituency,coming third. She was also on the party's London-wide list and elected through that.
In the 2022 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election,she was elected in Endlebury ward. [2]
Best was elected as Deputy Leader of the London Assembly Conservative Group in May 2023. [3]
Best is openly gay. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sem Moema | 112,739 | 51.2 | -7.5 | |
Green | Caroline Russell | 43,601 | 19.8 | +7.0 | |
Conservative | Emma Best | 41,398 | 18.8 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kate Pothalingham | 14,827 | 6.7 | +0.4 | |
Reform UK | Alex Wilson | 4,251 | 1.9 | N/A | |
TUSC | Nancy Taaffe | 3,236 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 69,138 | 31.4 | -13.1 | ||
Total formal votes | 220,052 | 98.4 | -0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 3,555 | 1.6 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 223,607 | 42.2 | -3.8 |
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