Brentford and Isleworth constituency results 2019: Labour's Ruth Cadbury wins seat
Voters in Brentford and Isleworth have gone to the polls to cast their ballots in the General Election.
Boris Johnson called the election to end the Brexit deadlock, the first December election since 1923.
MPs passed legislation approving the poll in October by a decisive margin of 438 votes to 20, seeing Britain’s political parties leap into action for an impassioned five-week campaign period.
The PM said the election beckoned the country to "come together to get Brexit done", while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded it a “once-in-a-generation chance to transform" the nation.
Brentford & Isleworth results:
2017 result: Ruth Cadbury, Labour
Ruth Cadbury, Labour, 29,266
Helen Cross, Liberal Democrat, 7,314
Daniel Goldsmith, Green, 1,829
Lucy O’Sullivan, The Brexit Party, 1,165
Seena Shah, Conservative, 18,752
To secure a majority and form a government, a party needs to win more than half the seats in the House of Commons - 326. The party that comes second sits on the Commons’ opposition benches, with its leader named ‘leader of the opposition’.
In 2017 the result was a hung parliament, where no single party commands a majority in Parliament. In this situation, several parties can join forces to become a ‘coalition government’, as in 2010 with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, or a single party can form a minority government.
You can read the Evening Standard’s list of candidates standing in every London constituency for the 2019 election here.