The Labor Party's Apsana Begum has won for the second time by getting 18 thousand 535 votes from the Bangladeshi populated poplar and Lime House. She won by the largest margin among the candidates of Bangladeshi descent.
Apsana's closest rival, Nathalie Benefit of the Green Party, got 5 thousand 975 votes; Freddie Downing of the Conservative Party got 4 thousand 738 votes; and independent candidate Apsana's ex-husband, Ehteshamul Haque, got 4 thousand 554 votes.
Apsana Begum won the Labour nomination and election battle in the face of the opposition of Bangladeshi descendants of the local Labour Party last time in the East London constituency.
34 I was born and raised in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets. Her father's house is in Jagannathpur, Sunamganj, Afsana's father, Monir Uddin, was a councillor in Tower Hamlets.