Brentford and Isleworth
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 16904 (38.8%)
Conservative: 13434 (30.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 10138 (23.3%)
Other: 3110 (7.1%)
Majority: 3471 (8%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 13918 (30.2%)
Labour: 18329 (39.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 10477 (22.8%)
Green: 1652 (3.6%)
Other: 1641 (3.6%)
Majority: 4411 (9.6%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 12957 (29.1%)
Labour: 23275 (52.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 5994 (13.5%)
UKIP: 412 (0.9%)
Green: 1324 (3%)
Other: 552 (1.2%)
Majority: 10318 (23.2%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 17825 (31.8%)
Labour: 32249 (57.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 4613 (8.2%)
Other: 1448 (2.6%)
Majority: 14424 (25.7%)
Boundary changes: Loses parts of Hounslow West, Heston Central and Heston East to Feltham and Heston.
Profile: A long seat that snakes along the north bank of the Thames, opposite Barnes and Kew Gardens. This is a mixed seat that changes as follows the Thames west, from upmarket and now reliably Conservative Chiswick, a mix of residential and office areas, home of the Fullers Brewery and popular with young urban professionals; past Gunnersbury and the council estates around Brentford Towers into the lower quality housing and more mixed areas of Brentford. There are large green spaces here around Osterley Park House and Syon House and Tory areas like Spring Grove, but moving south-west it becomes better for Labour. Isleworth was once considered a Conservative area but there is a far amount of council housing around the sewage works here and, moving westwards into Hounslow a large asian population.
In 1997 and 2001 Labour securing towering five figure majorities here, but it slumped to only 4411 in 2005, something of a return to form for a seat that had been held by the Conservatives since it’s creation in 1974 (albeit often very marginally) having formerly been represented by Nirj Deva, now a Conservative MEP.
Current MP: Ann Keen (Labour) born 1948, Wales. Educated at Elfred Secondary Modern, Clwyd, and Surrey University. Former nurse. Contested Brentford and Isleworth 1992. First elected as MP for Brentford and Isleworth in 1997. Former PPS to Gordon Brown. Undersecretary of state for health since 2007. She is married to Alan Keen, MP for neighbouring Feltham and Heston. Her sister is Sylvia Heal, MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: 
Mary MacLeod (Conservative) Management consultant and former policy advisor at Buckingham Palace. Contested Ross, Skye and Inverness West in 1997. Chairman of the Conservative Candidates Association.
Andrew Dakers (Liberal Democrat) born 1979. Hounslow councillor and leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Hounslow council. Contested Brentford and Isleworth in 2005.
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 105343
Male: 48.6%
Female: 51.4%
Under 18: 20.7%
Over 60: 15.5%
Born outside UK: 30.3%
White: 70%
Black: 4.6%
Asian: 18.7%
Mixed: 3.3%
Other: 3.4%
Christian: 55.5%
Hindu: 6.6%
Muslim: 8.2%
Sikh: 5.1%
Full time students: 5.8%
Graduates 16-74: 37.2%
No Qualifications 16-74: 19.3%
Owner-Occupied: 59%
Social Housing: 21.5% (Council: 16.1%, Housing Ass.: 5.4%)
Privately Rented: 16.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 7.2%
67 Responses
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I used to live in this ward - condolences to Robert Kinghorn’s family by the way. Labour didn’t bother in the May 2006 election. That their vote remained similarly low in a by-election (where they can bring resources from outside the ward in) suggests a deeper malaise for Labour in the constituency as a whole.
December 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pmTwickenham (& Richmond Park,Windsor)
I think this seat will go Conservative.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:28 pmI’ve had my doubts about it all along.
Ironically, the massive loss of Labour votes here since 1997 had convinced me that they have a big bank of votes that were compacent or a bit disillusioned but could be coaked out in the event of a real threat.
They will get more, but not enough to outnumber a Tory revival, I suspect.
London 2008 results - Brentford & Isleworth (new boundaries):
Mayor:
C - 12,539 (44.05%), Lab - 10,576 (37.15%), LD - 2,816 (9.89%), Greens - 1,076 (3.78%)
Constituency Vote, (South West):
C - 10,908 (38.62%), Lab - 7,545 (26.71%), LD - 4,084 (14.46%), Green - 2,596 (9.19%)
List:
C - 9,999 (35.30%), Lab - 7,863 (27.76%), LD - 3,274 (11.56%), Greem - 2,759 (9.74%)
POSTAL VOTES for whole of Hounslow:
Mayor: C - 5,999 (40.51%), Lab - 5,551 (37.48%), LD - 1,529 (10.32%), Green - 504 (3.40%)
Constituency : C - 5,377 (36.53%), Lab - 4,579 (31.11%), LD -1,811 (12.30%), Green - 1,057 (7.18%)
List: C - 4,937 (33.42%), Lab - 4,602 (31.16%), LD - 1,476 (9.99%), Green - 982 (6.65%)
Brentford & Isleworth represented 57.71% / 57.58% / 57.53 % of non-postal Hounslow votes for the 3 sections respectively.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pmBeckenham
With postal votes incorporated, it seems the Tories now have a base of around 40% of the vote here. With the Lib Dems quite strong in parts of the seat, that should be enough to beat Labour in the general election - seems to back up what JJB said above.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:46 pmI live in this seat and I can attest that Lab arent really bothered. However if turnout is high in Brentford&Hounslow Ann Keen will win.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:45 pmI presume the story about Ann Keen taking £10k per annum of life insurance out and charging it to the taxpayer is fairly toxic. Source. If local Conservatives can get the message out, I’d say that’s curtains for Labour here.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:25 amAgreed.
Any evidence of personal corruption will be fatal in the economic circumstances of 2010.
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