Brent East by-election, 2003

The Brent East by-election, 2003 was caused by the death on 18 June 2003 of the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Brent East, Paul Daisley, of the Labour Party.

The by-election to fill his seat was held on 18 September and was won by the Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Teather. In large part this can be explained by opposition to the 2003 Iraq War.

Turnout was 36.23%. At the 2001 general election, the Liberal Democrats had come third in the seat, with only 10.6% of the vote, but in the following 2005 general election they held on to the seat.

By-election 2003: Brent East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Sarah Teather	8,158	39.12	+28.5
	Labour	Robert Evans	7,040	33.76	–29.4
	Conservative	Uma Fernandes	3,368	16.15	–2.0
	Green	Noel Lynch	638	3.06	–1.6
	Socialist Alliance	Brian Butterworth	361	1.73	N/A
	Public Services Not War	Fawzi Ibrahim	219	1.05	N/A
	Independent	Winston McKenzie	197	0.94	N/A
	Independent	Kelly McBride	189	0.91	N/A
	Independent	Harold Immanuel	188	0.9	N/A
	UKIP	Brian Hall	140	0.67	0.1
	Socialist Labour	Iris Cremer	111	0.53	–0.8
	Independent	Neil Walsh	101	0.48	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Alan Hope	59	0.28	N/A
	No label	Aaron Barschak	37	0.18	N/A
	No label	Jitendra Bardwaj	35	0.17	N/A
	www.xat.org	Rainbow George Weiss	11	0.05	N/A
Majority			1,118	5.36
Turnout			20,752	36.2	–15.7
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing	+29.0

2001 result

(2001 was a general election)

General Election 2001: Brent East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Daisley	18,325	63.2	-4.1
	Conservative	David Gauke	5,278	18.2	-4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Norsheen Bhatti	3,065	10.6	+2.8
	Green	Simone Aspis	1,361	4.7	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Sarah Macken	392	1.4	+0.7
	Socialist Labour	Iris Cremer	383	1.3	N/A
	UKIP	Ashwin Tanna	188	0.6	N/A
Majority			13,047	45.0	0
Turnout			28,992	51.9	-14.0
	Labour hold		Swing

External links

• British Parliamentary By Elections: Campaign literature from the by-election

See also

• List of United Kingdom by-elections