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Brent East by-election, 2003

The member of Parliament for Brent East, Paul Daisley, of the Labour Party died on June 18, 2003.

The by-election to fill his seat was held on September 13, and was won by the Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Teather. In large part this can be explained by opposition to the 2003 Iraq War.

Turnout was 36.23%. At the 2001 general election, the Liberal Democrats had come third in the seat, with only 7.8% of the vote.

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sarah Teather	Liberal Democrats	8,158	39.12%
Robert Evans	Labour Party	7,040	33.76%
Uma Fernandes	Conservative Party	3,368	16.15%
Noel Lynch	Green Party	638	3.06%
Brian Butterworth	Socialist Alliance	361	1.73%
Khidori Fawzi Ibrahim	Public Services Not War	219	1.05%
Winston McKenzie	Independent	197	0.94%
Kelly McBridge	Independent	189	0.91%
Harold Immanuel	Independent	188	0.90%
Brian Hall	UK Independence Party	140	0.67%
Iris Cremer	Socialist Labour Party	111	0.53%
Neil Walsh	Independent	101	0.48%
Alan Howling Lord Hope	Monster Raving Loony Party	59	0.28%
Aaron Barschak	Independent	37	0.18%
Jitendra Bardwaj	Independent	35	0.17%
Rainbow George Weiss	www.xat.org	11	0.05%

2001 result

(2001 was a general election)

Paul Daisley	(Lab)	18,325	63.2%
David Gauke	(C)	5,278	18.2%
Nowsheen Bhatti	(L Dem)	3,065	10.6%
Simone Aspis	(GP)	1,361	4.7%
Sarah Macken	(PLA)	392	1.4%
Iris Cremer	(S Lab P)	383	1.3%
Ashwin Tanna	(UKIP)	188	0.6%

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