Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's niece Tulip Siddiq has been elected a Member of Parliament Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom General election 2015.
Labour's Tulip ousted the Conservatives with a small margin, reports BBC online in its live coverage of the election.
Bangladeshi origin Tulip secured 23,977 votes while Simon Marcus, who was contesting the election from Conservative party, got 22,839 votes.
She is the daughter of the prime minister’s younger sister Sheikh Rehana.
Tulip joined the Labour Party at the age of 16. She has worked for Amnesty International, the Greater London Authority, Philip Gould Associates, Save the Children, and Brunswick.
She worked on Ed Miliband’s campaign to be leader of the Labour Party. In 2008, she campaigned for Barack Obama in the USA.
In May 2010, She became the first Bangali woman in Camden Council, where she held a cabinet position for the next four years.
In 2013, following a vote by local party members, Labour chose her as its prospective candidate from the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency for today’s general elections.
She describes herself as a socialists and in opposition to the Iraq War. Siddiq is married to William St John Percy, a Cambridge-educated strategy consultant, and lives in West Hampstead of London with her family.
