Brent North

Brent North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Barry Gardiner of the Labour Party, who became Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade in 2016. HistoryCreated in 1974 from the former seats of Wembley North and Wembley South, Brent North was a Conservative seat until 1997, held by Lancastrian former headmaster Rhodes Boyson with initially two fairly small 14% margins before the Conservative period of government beginning in 1979 which gave Boyson larger majorities until Labour won the seat in 1997: in the General Elections of 1997 and 2001, Brent North produced the highest swing to Labour nationally. The winner in 1997 was the incumbent, Barry Gardiner, youngest mayor of Cambridge and former academic. The Liberal Democrats and their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 1974. Labour's percentage majority almost halved at the 2005 general election from 30. 1% to 15. 8% and fell slightly to 15. 4% in 2010, faced with a new Conservative challenger, Harshadbhai Patel.

Brent North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Barry Gardiner of the Labour Party, who became Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade in 2016. HistoryCreated in 1974 from the former seats of Wembley North and Wembley South, Brent North was a Conservative seat until 1997, held by Lancastrian former headmaster Rhodes Boyson with initially two fairly small 14% margins before the Conservative period of government beginning in 1979 which gave Boyson larger majorities until Labour won the seat in 1997: in the General Elections of 1997 and 2001, Brent North produced the highest swing to Labour nationally. The winner in 1997 was the incumbent, Barry Gardiner, youngest mayor of Cambridge and former academic. The Liberal Democrats and their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 1974. Labour's percentage majority almost halved at the 2005 general election from 30. 1% to 15. 8% and fell slightly to 15. 4% in 2010, faced with a new Conservative challenger, Harshadbhai Patel.