Virendra Sharma, the Labour Party Candidate, has been re-elected as the MP for Ealing Southall.

A total of 22,024 people voted for Virendra Sharma who won with a majority of 9,291 votes. Gurcharan Singh, the Conservative Party Candidate came second with 12,733 votes.

The Labour party has also won complete control of the local council by winning 40 of the 69 seats in the 23 wards. The Conservatives won 24 seats and the Liberal Democrats 5 seats.

Following the death of Ealing Southall MP Piara Khabra, triggering a by-election, in July 2007 five Labour councillors in Southall defected to the Conservatives.

They were Gurcharan Singh, Maninder Kaur Keith, Jarnail Singh Jandu, Manjit Singh and Jagdish Gupta.

Gurcharan Singh and Jarnail Singh Jandu lost their council seats on the Lady Margaret ward. Manjit Singh and Jagdish Gupta lost their seat on the Southall Broadway ward. All six seats on the wards were won by Labour, as in the previous election.

Gurcharan Singh had been a Labour councillor for 25 years when he defected to the Conservatives. During that time he held the post of deputy leader of the council and Mayor of Ealing.

Now, Gurcharan Singh, the Conservative party parliamentary candidate is not even a councillor any more.

At the previous by-election, Dr Avtar Lit, the Conservative party parliamentary candidate lost to Virendra Sharma and was replaced with Gurcharan Singh.

The good news for the Conservatives party was that they achieved a swing of 8.3% from the Labour party and increased their share of the vote to 29.8%, an increase of 10.8%.

Labour's share of the vote fell by 5.8% and the Liberal Democrats by 3.3%.