General Election London 2024 seats: Who will be my MP in...Feltham and Heston?
Millions of voters across London will go to the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:
FELTHAM AND HESTON
Estimated declaration time 4.15am
Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):
Reva Anil Gudi - Conservatives
Katharine Kandelaki - Green Party
Seema Malhotra - Labour
Dhruv Sengupta - Liberal Democrats
Prabhdeep Singh - Reform UK
Summary:
This constituency on the west of London, with significant social housing but low unemployment with many local people working at Heathrow airport, was created in 1974.
It has been held by Labour apart from when the Tories won it in 1983 and 1987.
Seema Malhotra, now shadow minister for skills won the seat in 2011 in a by-election.
At the Brexit December 2019 election, her majority was 7,859, half that of two years earlier in Theresa May’s snap June election.
The constituency, close to the M4, has above average car ownership than most other London boroughs, but also Tube links into London.
Area: Wards in the constituency include Bedfont, Cranford, Feltham North, Feltham West, Hanworth Park, Hanworth Village, Heston Central, Heston West and Hounslow West
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Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Boundary changes have not changed the political make-up of this constituency.
YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour hold
Evening Standard view: While Labour’s majority in this seat was halved from 2017 to 2019 this trend is unlikely to continue so it still looks like a Labour hold
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