Rupa Huq, a British-Bangladeshi, has been elected as the Member of Parliament from Ealing Central and Acton constituency in the United Kingdom General Election 2015.
Labour's Rupa Huq ousted the Conservatives, reports BBC online in its live coverage of the election.
Rupa secured 22,002 votes while Angie Bray, who was contesting the election from Conservative party, got 21,728 votes.
Rupa Huq stood as a candidate for the Labour Party in the European Parliament election the North West in 2004. In the 2005 UK general elections, she stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire.
Rupa was one of three Labour candidates campaigning for a council seat in Walpole in the constituency of Ealing.
In 2010, after local elections, she became the Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing. In November 2013, Huq was chosen by Labour for the Ealing Central and Acton constituency.
Rupa’s teaching career started In 1998, when she moved to Manchester. From 1998 to 2004, she was a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Then she served as a senior lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Kingston University in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She also teaches Media and Cultural Studies.