Voters have gone to the polls in Ilford South to cast their ballots in the General Election.
Theresa May called the snap poll in April, with the Prime Minister insisting an election was necessary to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations.
The PM's announcement was backed overwhelmingly in the House of Commons by MPs who had to vote for it in order for the election to go ahead.
Ilford South candidates (2015 result: Labour)
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Farid Ahmed – Liberal Democrats
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Chris Chapman – Conservative
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Mike Gapes – Labour
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Kane Khan – Friends Party
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Tariq Saeed – Ukip
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Rosemary Warrington – Green Party
For a party to be able to form a Government and its leader to become Prime Minister, it needs to win more than half the seats in the House of Commons – 326. The party that wins the second largest number of seats becomes the main opposition party and its leader the ‘leader of the opposition’.
You can read the Evening Standard’s list of candidates for all the London constituencies here.
Ilford South
Labour hold
LAB Mike Gapes 43724
CON Chris Chapman 12077
LD Farid Ahmed 772
GRN Rosemary Warrington 542
UKIP Tariq Saeed 477
FR Kane Khan 65
