Emma Best (politician)

Emma Best
Best in 2024
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
in the London Assembly
Assumed office
2 May 2023
LeaderNeil Garratt
Preceded byPeter Fortune
Member of the London Assembly for Londonwide
Assumed office
6 May 2021
Personal details
Born (1991-03-23) 23 March 1991 (age 33)
London, England
Political partyConservative
Websiteemmabest.org.uk

Emma Dawn Best (born 23 March 1991) is a British politician who has been deputy leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly since May 2023, and a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since 2021.[1]

Political career

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She is currently a councillor on Waltham Forest Borough Council where she is Leader of the Conservative Group.

She served as a councillor in Redbridge for the Church End ward between 2014 and 2018.

In 2021, she stood in the North East London constituency, coming third. She was also on the party's London-wide list and elected through that.

In the 2022 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election, she was elected in Endlebury ward.[2]

Best was elected as Deputy Leader of the London Assembly Conservative Group in May 2023.[3]

Political positions

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Bets is a proponent of electoral reform.[4]

Personal life

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Best is openly gay.[5]

Electoral history

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2021 London Assembly election: North East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sem Moema 112,739 51.2 −7.5
Green Caroline Russell 43,601 19.8 +7.0
Conservative Emma Best 41,398 18.8 +4.6
Liberal Democrats Kate Pothalingham 14,827 6.7 +0.4
Reform UK Alex Wilson 4,251 1.9 N/A
TUSC Nancy Taaffe 3,236 1.5 N/A
Majority 69,138 31.4 −13.1
Total formal votes 220,052 98.4 −0.4
Informal votes 3,555 1.6 +0.4
Turnout 223,607 42.2 −3.8

References

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  1. ^ "Full results for the 2021 Mayor of London and London Assembly elections". This Is Local London. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  2. ^ Munro, Victoria (24 February 2023). "Thousands in council cash for Chingford area spent 'outside the ward'". Waltham Forest Echo. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Conservatives choose new City Hall leader". 2 May 2023.
  4. ^ AM, Emma Best (23 August 2024). "Emma Best: Can Conservatives now talk seriously about electoral reform?". Conservative Home. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Openly gay South Woodford councillor talks about the struggle for equality". 18 February 2016.
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