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Surgery and Contact Details
Mary Macleod holds almost weekly surgeries, in various locations throughout the constituency, but they are by appointment only so anyone wishing to attend would need to email or telephone her team in the House of Commons. The decision was made by Mary and her team to use the appointment-only system as they did not want people having to wait around too long to see their MP and they wanted to make sure that Mary could spend an equal amount of time with each constituent. The telephone number for Mary Macleod MP's office in Westminster is 020 7219 7023 Mary Macleod wins seat for Tories in close contest Mary Macleod is the new Conservative MP for the Brentford and Isleworth constituency. In a contest that was closer than many had predicted she defeated sitting MP Ann Keen with 20,022 votes. This represented a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 6.0% Despite controversy over expenses and the third runway the Labour candidate's vote was only marginally down on 2005. Ann Keen had been widely tipped to fall to third place in the vote. Andrew Dakers, after running an energetic campaign will be disappointed with the Liberal Democrat's failure to at least take second place even though he increased his vote. He thanked his supporters for their backing against 'very heavily funded Labour/Tory campaigns.' Both Liberal Democrats and Labour had alleged that Lord Ashcroft was supplying substantial financial resources to the Conservative campaign in the seat as it was one they needed to win if they were to have a chance of forming a government. The Green Party's John Hunt saw his vote crumble and fell into 5th place behind UKIP. Turnout in the vote was up by 11.5% compared to 2005 64.4% with 54,081 votes cast and 53,765 counted.
June 30, 2010 |
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