Tulip holds with a 26.6% majority

Labour Party candidate Tulip Siddiq has retained her seat for Hampstead and Kilburn with a 26.6% majority in the UK general election. Tulip, Sheikh Rehana's daughter and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina niece, retained her Hampstead and Kilburn seat with a margin of 15,560 votes bagging 34,464 against her Conservative rival Claire-Louise. In the previous 2015 polls, Tulip was first elected to represent the constituency when she got 23,977 votes. Her main rival at the time was Conservative candidate Simon Marcus who received 22,839 votes. Two other Bangladeshi-origin women candidates Rushanara Ali and Dr Rupa Huq, both from the Labour Party, were also re-elected with huge margins from Bethnal Green and Bow constituency and the Earing Central and Acton constituency respectively.