Britain got its first female Sikh MP and first turban-wearing MP.
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, known as Tan, won his Slough seat decisively polling 34,170 votes, to become Labour’s first turban-wearing MP.
He defeated his Conservative party rival by a whopping 16,998 votes.
Among some of the other Indian-origin contestant results, Conservative party’s Priti Patel has held on to her stronghold of Witham in Essex with a solid majority of 18,646, Alok Sharma has held on to Reading West by 2,876 votes and Shailesh Vara has won in Cambridgeshire North West by 18,008 votes.
