Voters in Ealing and across the country have had their say today (4 July 2024) on who they want to govern the UK and represent them locally.
The polling stations opened at 7am today and closed at 10pm for the General Election taking place. Counting of the votes will start around 11pm with the results expected to be announced between 3:30am and 4:30pm on Friday (5 July 2024).
In Ealing, three constituencies are being contested – Ealing Central and Acton with an electorate of 78,436 and eight candidates standing, Ealing North with an electorate of 74,820 which also has eight candidates standing and Ealing Southall with an electorate of 78,669 and 12 candidates.
In total there is an electorate of 231,925 across the three constituencies. For this year’s election, 65,684 postal votes were issued.
Dr Rupa Huq has held Ealing Central and Action since 2015 and in 2019 she had a 13,300 majority over the Conservatives. James Murray has held Ealing North since 2019 where he had a 12,269 majority over the Conservatives. Virendra Sharma was MP for Ealing Southall from 2007 to 2024 and in 2019 he had a 16,084 majority over the Conservatives.
Mr Sharma stood down on 27 May 2024 and Ealing Council deputy leader Deirdre Costigan was chosen as the new Labour candidate to contest Ealing Southall in the General Election.
Click here for news and updates on Ealing’s three constituencies.
All candidates have been invited by EALING.NEWS for interview. Click on a name for the interview.
Where there is no link to the interview, the candidate did not get back to us.
| Ealing Central and Acton | Ealing North | Ealing Southall |
| Stephen Balogh (Social Democratic Party) | Helmi Alharahsheh (Independent) | Darshan Singh Azad (Workers Party) |
| Julie Carter (Independent) | Les Beaumont (SDP) | Sangeet Bhail (Independent) |
| Dr Kate Crossland (Green Party) | Sameh Habeeb (Workers Party of Britain) | Joe Bhangu (Independent) |
| Dr Rupa Huq (Labour Party) | Leon Harris (Reform UK) | Georgie Callé (Conservative and Unionist Party) |
| Nada Jarche (Workers Party of Britain) | Maria Khan (Conservative and Unionist Party) | Pedro Da Conceicao (Independent) |
| Alastair Mitton (Liberal Democrats) | Natalia Kubica (Green Party) | Deirdre Costigan (Labour Party) |
| Felix Orrell (Reform UK) | James Murray (Labour and Co-operative Party) | Steve Chilcott (Reform UK) |
| James Windsor-Clive (Conservative and Unionist Party) | Craig O’Donnell (Liberal Democrats) | Tariq Mahmood (Liberal Democrats) |
| Niko Omilana (Independent) | ||
| Neil Reynolds (Green Party) | ||
| Jaginder Singh (Independent) | ||
| Peter Ward (Rejoin EU) |
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