In what was a landslide victory for the Labour Party, Caliskan won 45% of the vote and 16,227 votes in total. Her closest rival was Reform UK’s Clive Peacock, who was 11,000 votes behind.
Nesil Çalışkan had been a councillor in the London borough of Enfield since 2015 and had chaired the council since 2018.
Republican Turkish Party (CTP) Secretary General Asım Akansoy congratulated her in a statement he made on his personal social media account, saying, “I have no doubt that I will be a strong voice for Turkish Cypriots in the House of Commons. I wish you success”.
Nesil Çalışkan is only the second Turkish Cypriot to be become an MP. In 2010, Liberal Democrat Meral Hussein-Ece, OBE was given a British life peerage. She was the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer in 2010. She serves in the House of Lord and is known as Baroness Hussein-Ece.
