Queen's Park and Maida Vale | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Westminster North, Brent Central and Hampstead and Kilburn |
Queen's Park and Maida Vale is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election. [1]
The constituency comprises the following areas: [2] [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Helen Baxter | ||||
Reform UK | Angela Carter-Begbie | ||||
Independent | Abdulla Dharamsi | ||||
Labour | Georgia Gould | ||||
Conservative | Samia Hersi | ||||
Green | Vivien Lichtenstein | ||||
Workers Party | Irakli Menabde | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
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