Mayoral Election Results for Brent and Harrow

Candidate	Party	1st pref votes		2nd pref votes
Siobhan Benita	Independent	5,152		13,691
Carlos Cortiglia	BNP	1,405		3,367
Boris Johnson	Conservative	58,777		20,466
Jenny Jones	Green	4,370		19,835
Ken Livingstone	Labour	67,083		26,961
Brian Paddick	Liberal Democrats	5,810		23,554
Lawrence Webb	UKIP	2,231		8,915

Brent and Harrow GLA Election Result

Lab Maj: 29796 (20.54%)

Navin Shah	Labour	70,400 (48.53%)
Sachin Rajput	Conservative	40,604 (27.99%)
Charlotte Henry	Liberal Democrat	15,690 (10.82%)
Shahrar Ali	Green	10,546 (7.27%)
Mick McGough	UK Independence Party	7,830 (5.40%)

Turnout: 37.06% (change: -5.09%)
2008

Navin Shah	Lab	57,716 (37.27%)
Bob Blackman	C	56,067 (36.21%)
James Allie	LD	19,299 (12.46%)
Shahrar Ali	Green	10,129 (6.54%)
Zena Sherman	CPA	4,180 (2.70%)
Sunita Webb	UKIP	3,021 (1.95%)
Pat McManus	Left List	2,287 (1.48%)
Arvind Tailor	Eng Dem	2,150 (1.39%)

Barnhill By-election Result

Michael John Charles Pavey - Labour - 2326 votes - 56% (elected)
Kanta Ratna Pindoria - Conservative Party - 1180 votes - 29% (not elected)
Martin Francis - Green Party - 457 votes - 11% (not elected)
Venilal Vaghela - Independent - 156 votes - 4% (not elected)

Number of ballot papers rejected 77
Turnout 38%

Many thanks to all those who voted for me and supported my campaign. Pushing above 10% is a move in the right direction but Brent Greens are still waiting for the breakthrough.  Thanks to the other candidates for their straightforward campaigning.

Ultimately the national mood swing against the Coalition and towards Labour was the default position for many people I spoke to when campaigning. National issues rather than local issues such as the closure of libraries were cited as their reason for voting Labour.  Nonetheless I congratulate Michael Pavey on his election and will be in touch over Barnhill and Chalkhill issues regularly in the future.

I think it would be misguided for Brent Labour to take this result as a vote of confidence in their policies and continue to ride roughshod over local residents.

Call In on Leaflet Licensing Thursday 17th May

I understand that the meeting of the Call In, Scrutiny and Overview Committee that will hear the Liberal Democrat motion on leaflet licensing will now be held on Thursday 17th May at 7.30pm, Committee Room 3 at Brent Town Hall.