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The Conservative and Labor Party candidates of Indian descent registered strong results on Friday in the general election of UK, with around a dozen parliamentarians retaining their seats with some new faces.In Thursday's election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson clinched an emphatic victory, setting the UK on course for an exit from the European Union (EU) in the New Year.The first-time members included Gagan Mohindra, Claire Coutinho for the Conservative Party and Navendru Mishra for Labor, all of whom were of Indian origin from the previous Parliament.She won 35,624 votes in the Surrey East Tory seat, with an impressive 24,040 votes in majority voting. With 30,327 votes and a majority of 14,408, Mohindra won his Hertfordshire South West position decisively, too.Priti Patel, former UK home secretary who is undoubtedly going to remain in Johnson's top team in the new cabinet, will also be the other Tories to return to the Commons for comfortable wins.This has been a hard-fought election in a very cold time of the year because we needed a functioning Conservative majority, said Ms. Patel, who polled 32,876 votes at her Witham constituency in Essex and held on to a majority of 24,082 for the party.We are committed to deliver on priorities and getting Brexit done is a priority. The deal is there, we want to move forward, she said.Her fellow Cabinet colleagues in the previous Johnson-led government also had a good night, with Rishi Sunak — the son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy — clinching 36,693 votes, marking a majority for the Tories of 27,210. Alok Sharma, the former international development minister, polled 24,393 votes to win from Reading West.Shailesh Vara won his North West Cambridgeshire seat with a solid majority of 25,983, polling 40,307 votes and Goan-origin Suella Braverman clinched Fareham with 36,459 votes, registering a majority of 26,086.The pro-Brexit MP thanked her constituency team for its unstinting support and hard work.Great teamwork in the rain, the cold and the dark! All patriots who want to Get Brexit Done with Boris Johnson, she tweeted soon after the result was declared.The Opposition Labour Party had a disastrous night overall, losing key seats in its heartlands in the north, but for all the Indian-origin MPs from the last Parliament there was a reason to celebrate.Navendru Mishra bagged 21,695 votes to clinch the Stockport seat and become a first-time MP for the party. Preet Kaur Gill, who had made history in the last election as the first British Sikh female MP, was re-elected from Birmingham Edgbaston with 21,217 votes. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, the first turbaned Sikh MP, will also return to the Commons with an impressive 13,640 majority, having polled 29,421 votes from Slough in south-east England and beating Tory Indian-origin rival Kanwal Toor Gill.Veteran MP Virendra Sharma, who had been under pressure by forces within his own party, had a comfortable win from Ealing Southall with 25,678 votes. The others holding on to their seats included Lisa Nandy who won Wigan with 21,042 votes and Seema Malhotra clinched Feltham and Heston with 24,876 votes.Valerie Vaz, the sister of scandal-hit former MP Keith Vaz who had stepped down ahead of the election, held on to her Walsall South seat with 20,872 votes, beating Indian-origin Tory candidate Gurjit Bains.The far-right Brexit Party, which had fielded a number of Indian-origin candidates, failed to make a dent in the election, which marked the biggest win for the Conservatives since the 1980s.

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