UK election: Tulip Siddiq, Rupa Huq, Afsana Begum, Rushanara Ali reelected as MPs
Centre-left Labour was on course to capture 410 of the 650 seats in parliament
Tulip Siddiq, Rupa Huq, Afsana Begum and Rushanara Ali have been reelected as British MPs.
Labour candidate Tulip Siddiq, granddaughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was elected for the fourth time in her constituency Hampstead and Highgate, UK with 23,432 votes (48.3%).
Meanwhile her closest opponent Conservative candidate Don Williams won 8,462 votes, according to election data gathered from the BBC.
The margin was thinner in 2019 when she bagged 28,080 votes and Johnny Luk, standing for the Conservative Party, had stood second with 13,892 votes
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She was first elected to Britain's House of Commons in May 2015 from London's Hampstead and Kilburn, and drew global attention with her maiden speech in parliament.
Again in 2019, she became the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn. She also earned a spot among the most influential politicians of London on The Progress 1000 list of the Evening Standard in the same year.
Since then she has played important roles in the UK government including Shadow Minister for Children & Early Years, and Shadow Economic secretary.
Meanwhile, Labour candidate Rupa Huq has also been reelected as a British MP from Ealing Central and Acton constituency.
Rupa Huq bagged 22,340 votes (46.8%) and her closest opponent Conservative candidate James Windsor-Clive got 8,345 votes (17.5%).
In her case as well the margin was thinner in 2019 when she won with 28,132 votes, beating the Conservative candidate Julian Gallant, who got 14,832 votes.
She first became the MP in 2015 and has since then been relected four times now.
Also, Labour candidate Afsana Begum became the MP in Poplar and Limehouse.
Afsana Begun received 18,535 votes (43.1%) while her closest opponent Nathalie Bienfait of Green Party got 5,985 votes (13.9%).
She was first elected in 2019.
Rushanara Ali, the first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected in Britain's House of Commons in 2010, has also been reelected.
The Labour candidate bagged 15,896 votes (34.1%) while her closest rival independent candidate Ajmal Masroor got 14,207 votes (30.5%).
In her case the margin was much higher in 2019 when she won with 44,052 votes, which amounted to more than 70% of the vote share and Nicholas Stovold from the Conservatives came second with 6528 votes.
