City and East

[Admin Twaddleford]

City and East

[timrollpickering]

The Conservative candidate is Nick Vandyke:

The Green candidate is Tim Kiely:

The Labour incumbent restanding is Unmesh Desai:

The Lib Dem candidate is Richard Flowers: www.towerhamletslibdems.org.uk/lib_dems_launch_city_east_greater_london_assembly_campaign

The Women's Equality Party had applications for a candidate open back in August but don't seem to have announced anything since:

[Devil Wincarnate]

Nick Vandyke: Diagnosis Selection!

[Pete Whitehead]

I hope he can affect a better cockney accent than his namesake

[timrollpickering]

Here he is speaking:

[bjornhattan]

I will say - this seat will have got more homogenous over time. Parts of southern Newham weren't very diverse in 2000, and certainly Barking and Dagenham has seen almost inconceivable change since 2000. So this seat will probably be safer than ever for Labour.

[Pete Whitehead]

Results here in the 2019 General election based on notional ward results

Lab 208385  67.1%
Con  57009  18.4%
LD    24475    7.9%
BxP  10017   3.2%
Grn   8630    2.8%
Oth   1945    0.6%