Who became MP for Uxbridge South & Ruislip at the 2015 General Election?
"October, which was also Cameron's 48th birthday. The poll was one of two parliamentary by-elections the same day, with an election also being held in the constituency of Heywood and Middleton following the death of its MP, Jim Dobbin of Labour. Analysis of demographics for the constituency prior to the by-election were said to make it the most UKIP-friendly in the country. There was speculation that Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, would seek the candidacy at the by-election. He ruled out standing, saying that he was intent on fighting Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the general election. While"
"for keeping records of how much time would-be future parliamentary candidates had spent in the constituency. In the end, the Conservative candidate was elected by a large majority, gaining over 50% of all votes cast, while the Labour and Liberal Democrat votes both fell. It was the first time the Conservatives held onto a seat at a by-election since the Richmond (Yorks) by-election, 1989 (when the candidate was William Hague - who had become leader of the party shortly before the Uxbridge by-election). Randall would represent the seat (and its successor, Uxbridge and South Ruislip) until standing down in 2015."
"£300k loss. Johnson initially denied that he would return to the House of Commons while remaining mayor. However, after much media speculation, in August 2014 he sought selection as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election, being selected as the party's candidate in September. The United Kingdom general election, 2015 took place on 7 May and Johnson was elected. There was much speculation that he had returned to Parliament because he wanted to replace Cameron as Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Johnson became the centre of media interest in early"
"for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election. The campaign was dominated by the personal battle between Goldsmith and Khan, and their contrasting class and ethnic backgrounds. Through his victory, Khan became the second Labour Party Mayor of London after Livingstone, and the first Muslim mayor of a European Union capital city. The campaign of Goldsmith was marred by accusations of Islamophobia, for which he was condemned at the time by senior Muslim figures within the Conservative Party. In 2018, the Muslim Council of Britain said that the campaign was an example of Tory ""dog whistle anti-Muslim racism"","
"has created a new constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. A number of electoral wards in Hillingdon are moved into the new constituency of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner Uxbridge (UK Parliament constituency) Uxbridge was a borough constituency represented by one Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, 1885—2010. Its MPs elected were the Conservative Party's candidates for 107 years and the Labour Party's candidates for 18 years. The closing 40 years of the seat's history saw elections won by a Conservative candidate — in 1997 on a very marginal majority in relative terms. The"
"demolished in order for the new road to be constructed, and a new station was opened further south along the line in 1994, winning the Underground Station of the Year award for that year. Hillingdon is a traditional Conservative stronghold lying within the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency, represented since 2015 by Boris Johnson. Before that, John Randall MP had represented the constituency since 1997, following the death of fellow Conservative Sir Michael Shersby. Primary schools in Hillingdon include Oak Farm Juniors, St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School, St Helen's College (an Independent School), Hillingdon Primary and Ryefield Primary. Secondary"
"the seat at the United Kingdom general election 2015; she achieved 30,279 votes, 52% of the total cast and a 31% swing from the previous incumbent and their party. She was the first female MP, and the first for the SNP, to be elected in the Rutherglen/Cambuslang portion of the constituency or its predecessor; Winnie Ewing had previously served a short spell as representative of the original Hamilton constituency for the same party. She claimed £43,000 in expenses during the 2015/16 financial year, a lower figure than several MPs in the neighbouring Glasgow and South Lanarkshire areas. In April 2017"
"Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian, and journalist. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously been the MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018 he served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies. Born"
"to concentrate on his role as a MSP. His party colleague Alasdair Tollemache replaced him as Councillor for Dunblane and Bridge of Allan at the 2017 poll. His political career has involved fighting numerous campaigns for the Greens including standing in the 2001, 2010 and 2015 UK Westminster General Elections for Stirling and in every Scottish Parliament election since 1999. In March 2015, the Scottish Greens announced that Ruskell had been selected as the lead candidate for their Mid Scotland and Fife regional list, following a ballot of their members. and was subsequently elected. On 23 May he was announced"
"renounced his US citizenship. Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian, and journalist. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously been the MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018 he served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and"
"density of buildings is found close to historic Uxbridge town centre, a London hub in a seat that is ethnically diverse and prosperous, including on its outskirts Brunel University, with most electoral wards voting Conservative with the exception of Uxbridge South, which returns Labour councillors. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by ""The Guardian"". Uxbridge and South Ruislip (UK Parliament constituency) Uxbridge and South Ruislip is a constituency created in 2010, represented in the House of Commons of the UK"
"2015 General Election, Carswell kept his seat in Clacton but Reckless lost Rochester to the Conservative Kelly Tolhurst. UKIP had 3,881,129 votes (12.6%) and was the third largest party on vote share, yet it won only one seat. Because of this, there were calls from some in UKIP for a voting reform in favour of proportional representation. Carswell quit the party in March 2017 to become an independent, leaving UKIP without any MPs in the Commons. In the 2017 election, a Snap election initiated by PM Theresa May and scheduled for 8 June 2017, UKIP got 1.9% of the votes"
"John Randall, Baron Randall of Uxbridge Alexander John Randall, Baron Randall of Uxbridge, PC (born 5 August 1955) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and then later Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He was the Conservative Deputy Chief Whip between May 2010 and October 2013. Lord Randall is a trustee and Vice-Chair of the Human Trafficking Foundation and in February 2016 was appointed Special Envoy on modern Slavery to the Mayor of London, alongside Anthony Steen CBE. Randall's family have lived in Uxbridge for many years. The family owned the"
"The MP for Uckfield was previously Charles Hendry, the town falling within the constituency of Wealden. Charles Hendry was the MP for Wealden from 2001, standing down in the 2015 general elections. On 7 May 2015 Nusrat Ghani was elected as the MP for Wealden with a majority of 22,967. The town of Uckfield has grown up as a road hub, and on the crossing point of the River Uck. Traffic on the A26 between Tunbridge Wells and Lewes, from the north-east to the south-west, joins with that on the A22 London – Eastbourne road around the town on its"
"November 2016. She was elected as MP for St Helens South and Whiston in the 2015 general election with a majority of 21,243, and subsequently increased to 24,343 in the 2017 general election. Rimmer was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People on 1 February 2017 but decided to step down from the role in October the same year. Marie Rimmer Marie Elizabeth Rimmer, (born 27 April 1947) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens South and Whiston since 8 May 2015. Before entering Parliament, Rimmer had served as a local"
"Following Carswell's resignation, Roger Lord, UKIP's nominated candidate for the 2015 general election, declared that he still wanted to stand, although the UKIP National Executive Committee voted to select Carswell. Two early opinion polls showed Carswell with a substantial lead. At the by-election on 9 October 2014, Carswell was successful, with a substantial majority of 12,404 votes over his nearest rival. In the 2015 general election, however, this figure was reduced to 3,437 votes. In the 2015 UK general election, Carswell won the seat of Clacton with a majority of 3,437 – down from a majority of 12,404 in the"
"apart from the brief period between the February and October elections in 1974 (since Labour formed a minority government in February despite the Conservatives winning the popular vote). In 2014, the sitting Conservative MP Mark Reckless defected to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), becoming the second MP in a matter of weeks to do so. Reckless resigned his seat, triggering a by-election in which he stood as the UKIP candidate. He won the by-election by just under 3,000 votes and became UKIP's second MP after Douglas Carswell. At the 2015 general election, Reckless was defeated by Conservative candidate Kelly"
"during the Somerset floods of 2014, and campaigned for flood alleviation works. As candidate, he campaigned for improved broadband, local charities, rail connectivity, new schools, dualling of the arterial A303 road through Somerset, and reduced duty, regulation and VAT on pub sales. At the 2015 general election, he was elected with 53% of the vote and, at 18.3%, the largest constituency swing to the Conservative Party after David Heath, who held the seat for the Liberal Democrats since 1997, stepped down. As an MP, he has petitioned Downing Street to prevent the EU imposing excise duty on sales of small-scale"
"the 2015 general and local election there was a turnout of 62.17%, equating to 80,899 votes cast. Southend is represented by two MPs at Westminster. The MP for Southend West since 1997 has been Sir David Amess (Conservative) who replaced Paul Channon. Since 2005 the MP for Rochford and Southend East has been James Duddridge (Conservative), who replaced Sir Teddy Taylor. Despite its name the majority of the constituency is in Southend; Rochford makes up only a small part and the majority of Rochford District Council is represented in the Rayleigh constituency. Southend is the seventh most densely populated area"
"including the regulation of bus services, immigration, poverty, and problems with Labour’s 2017 election campaign. Phillipson is married with two children, and enjoys reading, music and dog-walking. She is a Roman Catholic. Bridget Phillipson Bridget Maeve Phillipson (born 19 December 1983) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton and Sunderland South. She was the first MP to be declared to be elected to the 2015 Parliament, with an increased majority of 12,938. She was re-elected in 2017. She was educated at St Robert of Newminster"
"Phil Boswell Philip John Boswell (born 23 July 1963) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill since being elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2015 until he lost to Labour candidate Hugh Gaffney in the United Kingdom General Election, 2017 by 1,586 votes. Boswell was raised in Coatbridge and worked there for a brief time as a policeman. Boswell then found work in the oil industry, as a quantity surveyor and contracts engineer. He spent more than a decade in the oil and gas industry, with work"
"of promotional videos, this followed the Independent Parliamentary Standards Association finding that they were not eligible because they did not relate to parliamentary activities. Phil Boswell Philip John Boswell (born 23 July 1963) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill since being elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2015 until he lost to Labour candidate Hugh Gaffney in the United Kingdom General Election, 2017 by 1,586 votes. Boswell was raised in Coatbridge and worked there for a brief time as a policeman. Boswell then found work in"
"on 9 October and 20 November 2014. At the 2015 general election, Carswell was re-elected, but Reckless was not, the seat being re-taken by the Conservatives. Carswell thus became the only person so far to win a seat for UKIP in a General Election: but left UKIP to sit as an independent MP on 25 March 2017. On 6 April 2017, Mark Reckless - by now sitting in the Welsh Assembly, having been elected there in 2016 - also left UKIP to sit with the Conservative group in the Assembly, although he had not yet officially rejoined his old party."
"resulting in a 7.8% swing to the Conservatives from Shahid Malik. It was the first time the seat of Dewsbury had been won by a Conservative MP since that of John Whitfield in the 1983 general election, making Reevell only the second Conservative MP since 1922 to win the seat. Reevell was re-selected in 2013 to represent the Conservative Party in Dewsbury at the 2015 general election. At the 2015 general election Reevell was defeated by Labour's Paula Sherriff who took the seat with a majority of 1,451. In 2014 it was revealed that Reevell was, after the speaker of"
"the constituency was represented by Rob Marris of the Labour Party for nine years until he lost it in the 2010 general election to Paul Uppal of the Conservative Party, on the same majority of 691 votes as Powell in 1950. Marris regained the seat from Uppal at the 2015 general election. The 2015 result gave the seat the 14th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. In 2017, despite Marris standing down after 11 (non-consecutive) years as an MP and Uppal standing for a third time, the new Labour candidate, Eleanor Smith, more than doubled the Labour"
"2017, was Douglas Carswell, who had previously sat for the Harwich constituency since gaining that seat for the Conservatives in 2005. On 28 August 2014, Carswell announced his defection to UKIP. Although not required to seek re-election following a change of party allegiance, Carswell triggered a by-election, held on 9 October 2014, in which he was elected as the UKIP candidate. Carswell retained the seat for UKIP at the 2015 general election, seeing his majority cut by roughly three-quarters, with an 11% swing to the Conservatives. Carswell then became UKIP's sole MP in the House of Commons, as Mark Reckless,"
"and Chelsea. In 2015 he became CEO of Basingstoke Voluntary Action. This role allowed him to run for public office and in May 2016 he became the councillor for a central ward in Portsmouth City Council. Later that year he became the Leader of the Portsmouth Labour Group. On 8 June 2017, a snap general election which was called by British Prime Minister Theresa May was held, where he defeated the incumbent Conservative MP Flick Drummond for the Portsmouth South seat by a majority of 1,554 and a swing of 9.4% to Labour. This makes him the first member of"
"surgery in Rainham and against proposals to cut the number of beds at Oldchurch Hospital. He was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements. On 9 February 2015, he was elected, unopposed, to succeed Dave Watts as the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party. On 8 May 2015, he was re-elected as MP for the Leyton and Wanstead constituency with 58.6% of the vote. On 8 June 2017, he was re-elected"
"party"". In July 2012, she joined the Advisory Board of Yes Scotland, the cross-party campaign for Scottish independence ahead of the upcoming referendum. In May 2014 she was the third candidate on the SNP's list for the European Parliament election, but was unsuccessful in winning a seat. In the 2015 general election she was elected to the UK Parliament in the Ochil and South Perthshire constituency, earning 46% of the vote as the SNP took the seat from Labour incumbent Gordon Banks. However she lost the seat at the following 2017 general election to Luke Graham of the Conservative party."
"Stephen Haraldsen, their candidate in 2015, and Chris Whiteside, a former parliamentary candidate and their candidate in the 2015 Copeland mayoral election. The UK Independence Party's (UKIP) West Cumbria branch selected Fiona Mills as their candidate, a local National Health Service (NHS) worker, member of UKIP's National Executive Committee and county chairwoman, who had stood as the party's candidate in Carlisle in the 2015 general election. UKIP leader Paul Nuttall ruled himself out of standing in this by-election, initially to focus on a potential by-election in Leigh, then to contest the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election. The Liberal Democrat candidate was confirmed"
"the Council. She was elected as MP for Edinburgh North and Leith in 2015 as part of the SNP landslide receiving 23,742 votes (a 40.9% share), defeating the Labour Party MP, Mark Lazarowicz, by 5,597 votes. Brock was one of several SNP MPs who took their parliamentary oaths in both Gaelic and English. She was re-elected MP for the same constituency in 2017 with 19,243 votes (34% share) and a 1,625 vote majority over second placed Labour candidate Gordon Munro. The third placed Conservative candidate Ian McGill increased his share of the vote by 11% to 15,385 votes. Brock is"
"people on the shortlist to become United Kingdom Independence Party candidate for the constituency of South Basildon and East Thurrock at the 2015 general election. At the initial selection meeting he was not chosen as the candidate. Shortly afterwards, the successful candidate, Kerry Smith, resigned as UKIP's nominee for the seat after he was recorded making offensive remarks about fellow party members in a telephone conversation. A new selection was held in January 2015, which Luder won. Luder contested the general election and came second, polling 12,097 votes (26.5% of the total), 7,692 votes behind the incumbent Conservative candidate, Stephen"
"both of which had been carved out of the Uxbridge seat in 1950. The 1950 changes reflecting the growth in population across the area during the period from 1918, the previous national reorganisation of seats. The Conservative party won in 2010 and 2015 by a margin of about 25%, and since 1970 the fourteen parliamentary elections in this constituency and its predecessor (the constituency of Uxbridge) were won by the Conservatives. The 2015 result gave the seat the 149th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. In 2010 for the locally selected Conservative standing"