Ealing and Acton Go To the Polls This Thursday
Vote taking place for Mayor, London Assembly and council by-elections
Candidates for the Ealing and Hillingdon seat. Onkar Sahota (centre). Clockwise from top left: Marijn Van De Geer, Anthony Goodwin, Gregory Stafford, Hussain Khan
Residents of Ealing and Acton will join up to six million Londoners in the election to decide who will be the Mayor of London and the members of the London Assembly.
The polls and the bookies both indicate that Sadiq Khan is likely to remain as Mayor but there are a range of possible outcomes for the Assembly elections.
Borough residents vote in the Ealing & Hillingdon constituency which combines the two London boroughs. Labour’s Onkar Sahota is widely expected to win with the bookies not offering odds on a Labour defeat and sources in the local Conservative party conceding that their candidate, Ealing councillor Gregory Stafford would be a surprising winner.
| Party | Candidate |
|---|---|
| Reform UK | Anthony Goodwin |
| Liberal Democrats | Hussain Khan |
| Labour | Onkar Sahota |
| Conservative | Gregory Stafford |
| Green | Marijn Van De Geer |
The incumbent has held the seat since 2012 when he defeated the Conservative Richard Barnes. In 2016 he increased his majority to nearly 16.000 votes.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Onkar Sahota | 86,088 |
42.8 |
+2.8 |
| Conservative | Dominic Gilham | 70,155 |
34.9 |
-3.2 |
| UKIP | Alex Nieora | 15,832 |
7.9 |
+3.8 |
| Green | Meena Hans | 15,758 |
7.8 |
+1.2 |
| Liberal Democrats | Francesco Fruzza | 13,154 |
6.5 |
-0.7 |
Majority |
15,933 |
7.9 |
+6 |
|
Total valid votes |
200,987 |
98.74 |
+0.37 |
|
Rejected ballots |
2,573 |
1.26 |
-0.37 |
|
| Labour hold | Swing |
+3.0 |
||
Labour currently holds 12 of the 25 seats and has high hopes of achieving a majority in Thursday’s vote.
London Assembly members are elected using the Additional Member system. You vote once for your constituency member and once for a London-wide representative. Votes give to the London-wide representative from voters in the local constituency will help determine the make up of the Assembly.
There are 14 constituency members and 11 London-wide members.
| Political party | Assembly members | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | |
| Labour | 9 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
| Conservative | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 8 |
| Green | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| UKIP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Liberal Democrat | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| British National Party | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Alongside the London-wide elections , residents will be able to cast their ballots for vacant posts in Ealing Broadway, Hanger Hill and Hobbayne wards.
The Ealing Broadway seat was formerly held by Conservative Alexander Stafford, who was elected as a member of Parliament for Rother Valley in the national December 2019 election.
| Ealing Broadway Ward Election - May 2018 | |||
| Alexander Paul Thomas Stafford | Conservative | 1,968 |
44.8 |
| Anthony Christopher Bowes Young | Conservative | 1,955 |
44.5 |
| Seema Kumar | Conservative | 1,860 |
42.3 |
| Lainya Gillian Offside-Keivani | Labour | 1,450 |
33.0 |
| Nick Pearce | Labour | 1,416 |
32.2 |
| Colin Bastin | Labour | 1,365 |
31.1 |
| Joyce Onstad | Liberal Democrats | 789 |
18.0 |
| Meena Hans | Green | 642 |
14.6 |
| Patrick Salaun | Liberal Democrats | 627 |
14.3 |
| Toran Jorane Shaw | Liberal Democrats | 572 |
13.0 |
| Turnout | 4,395 |
41.30 |
|
Mr Stafford, and former Hanger Hill councillor Joy Morrissey gave up their ward positions in April 2020. Ms Morrissey was also elected as Conservative MP for Beaconsfield in the December 2019 General Election.
Hanger Hill Local Election Results 2018
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Joy Morrissey | 2,002 |
47.6 |
| Conservative | Nigel Sumner | 1,876 |
44.6 |
| Conservative | Gregory Stafford | 1,864 |
44.3 |
| Labour | Catherine Wallace | 1,380 |
32.8 |
| Labour | Shabir Ahmed | 1,319 |
31.4 |
| Labour | Kassem Baksh | 1,179 |
28.0 |
| Green | Kate Crossland | 552 |
13.1 |
| Liberal Democrats | Tony Miller | 522 |
12.4 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jane Wright | 484 |
11.5 |
| Liberal Democrats | Maria Gerakaris-Michanitzis | 457 |
10.9 |
| Duma Polska | Anna Maria | 199 |
4.7 |
| Duma Polska | Tomasz Chwesiuk | 136 |
3.2 |
| Duma Polska | Adam Wiktorski | 131 |
3.1 |
| Turnout | 4,207 |
40.46 |
|
Both seats have elected a full slate of Conservative councillors in the last few elections.
Meanwhile, campaigning is also underway to replace late councillor Anna Tomlinson for Hobbayne ward, after she died in June 2020.
Paying tribute to her last year, council leader Julian Bell said: “Anna was a joy to know, a really kind and gentle woman, and a good friend to all. Anna will be deeply missed by all of us who worked alongside her. She gave her time and experience to this community, which she loved.”
The ward did elect a Conservative councillor in 2010 but all three seats were held by Labour with a big majority at the last election.
Hobbayne Ward Local Election Result May 2018
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Lewis Cox | 2,595 |
57.6 |
| Labour | Anna Janina Tomlinson | 2,579 |
57.2 |
| Labour | Ray Wall | 2,479 |
55.0 |
| Conservative | Surendra Dhungan | 1,009 |
22.4 |
| Conservative | Patrick Goodwin Cusworth | 979 |
21.7 |
| Conservative | Roger Grimshaw | 961 |
21.3 |
| Green | Alan Campbell Anderson | 669 |
14.8 |
| Liberal Democrats | Judith Ellen Ducker | 344 |
7.6 |
| Liberal Democrats | Francesco Daniele Fruzza | 327 |
7.3 |
| Liberal Democrats | Mo Muman | 284 |
6.3 |
| Duma Polska | Dominik Sitarek | 266 |
5.9 |
| Duma Polska | Chris Wiciak | 254 |
5.6 |
| Independent | Daniel Joseph McGoun | 210 |
4.7 |
| Turnout | 4,507 |
43.53 |
|
The full list of candidates standing for each vacant ward seat is:
Ealing Broadway
Daniel Cosby – Workers Party of Britain
Julian Gallant – Conservative Party
Meena Hans – Green Party
Helen Pattison – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Claire Tighe – Labour and Co-operative Party
Christopher Wyatt – Liberal Democrat
Hanger Hill
Fabio Conti – Conservative Party
Kate Crossland – Green Party
David Hofman – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Grace Quansah – Labour Party
Athena Zissimos – Liberal Democrat
Hobbayne
Louise Patricia Brett – Labour Party
David Castle – Conservative Party
Tony Gill – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Emily Grassi – Green Party
Alastair Mitton – Liberal Democrat
For the Mayoral election there are 20 candidates standing hoping to unseat the incumbent Sadiq Khan.
The Mayor of London is elected using the Supplementary Vote system. You make a first and second choice when you vote.
If no candidate gets more than 50% of the first choice votes, all except the top 2 candidates are eliminated. If your first choice candidate is eliminated, and your second choice is for one of the top 2, your second choice is counted.
The results are likely to be declared either on Saturday 8 May or Sunday 9 May with the latter understood to be the more likely due to the number of candidates standing for Mayor and the need to be Covid-secure when making the count.
Shaun Bailey – Conservative Party
Kam Balayev – Renew
Sian Berry – Green Party
Count Binface – Count Binface for Mayor of London
Piers Corbyn – Let London Live
Max Fosh – Independent
Laurence Fox – The Reclaim Party
Peter Gammons – UKIP
Richard Hewison – Rejoin EU
Vanessa Hudson – Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment
Steve Kelleher – Social Democratic Party
Sadiq Khan – Labour Party
David Kurten – Heritage Party
Farah London – Independent
Valerie Brown – The Burning Pink Party
Nims Obunge – Independent
Niko Omilana – Independent
Luisa Porritt – Liberal Democrats
Mandu Reid – Women’s Equality Party
Brian Rose – London Real Party
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