Faiza Shaheen can win in Chingford and Woodford Green
Our latest canvassing data — based on 12,755 voter conversations — shows that Faiza Shaheen is the preferred choice amongst decided voters in Chingford and Woodford Green, with 36% of voters committing to her, 33% to the Conservatives and just 23% to Labour.
(Undecideds assigned based on Redfield-Wilton method — you can get more context about our data here.)
Why voting for Faiza is the best way to beat the Conservatives
If you're worried that voting for Faiza Shaheen will split the progressive vote in Chingford and Woodford Green, don’t be! Watch the video below to find out why voting Independent on 4 July is the best way to beat the Conservatives here — and remember to share it with others.
Join us at a campaign event
We’re running lots of canvassing and leafleting sessions all over the Chingford and Woodford Green constituency! Support our people-powered campaign — join us at a campaign event near you.
Latest news: Ronnie O’Sullivan backs Faiza!
“We live in an amazing community and I want someone that lives here, that’s been brought up here, that cares about this place.” For Ronnie O’Sullivan there’s only one candidate worth voting for in Chingford and Woodford Green on July 4 — watch him speak at Faiza’s recent rally in the video below. And feel free to share it!
Faiza’s statement on standing as an Independent candidate for Chingford & Woodford Green at the General Election on 4 July.
I have reached this decision following hundreds of messages from people in my community, who say there are no options left for them. They are tired of the Tories but now feel they can’t trust Labour.
They feel disenfranchised by Labour’s decision to remove me and feel it would be impossible for the party to win here without a local candidate, rooted in the community, and that such a voice is vitally needed.
I am standing here to win, to beat Iain Duncan Smith and the Conservatives, to finish what we started.
I am standing to give a voice to my community – the community that made me and has put their faith in me.
I grew up here, went to school here and live here now. I was born at Whipps Cross, went to school in Chingford and had my first job at Greggs at Chingford Mount.
I love my community; it is a special place and deserves to be represented by someone who understands its needs and what it values.
It deserves an MP that listens to its problems and works their hardest to find solutions. An MP that understands people’s struggles to make ends meet amid the rising cost of living. An MP that fights for our underfunded local services, for investment in the NHS, supports our local businesses and is a champion for our town centres.
An MP that speaks out against permitting overdevelopment without the infrastructure to support it. That cares for our environment, campaigns for clean air, and against sewage dumps in our rivers.
It’s a community that deserves better than a mansion-dwelling Conservative MP, far removed from the reality of ordinary people’s lives.
I want to use what I have learned, my economic knowledge and my work to eradicate inequality, to argue for a better deal for local people who have suffered so much during 14 years of austerity.
My campaign will be powered by members of our community who have volunteered to support and work with me. It will be positive, forward looking and centred around what Chingford & Woodford Green needs from whoever forms the next Government.
With its recent actions, many local people think Labour has handed a winnable seat to the Conservatives for another five years. I aim to show that there is a progressive alternative to both parties that puts Chingford & Woodford Green first.
Faiza Shaheen
5 June 2024
About me
Chingford & Woodford Green is my home. I was born at Whipps Cross Hospital, grew up here, attended Chingford CofE and Chingford Foundation schools, worked in Greggs on Chingford Mount, then managed to win a place at the University of Oxford.
I went on to gain a PhD and jobs at major policy and charitable organisations, as well as run a small company. I want to use all my skills, knowledge, and experience to fight for my home, neighbours and friends in parliament. In 2019 I came within 1,262 votes of winning here.
14 years of Tory governments has left this country in tatters. The NHS, schools, police - and every other part of our public services - have been systematically underfunded.
People are working hard and finding themselves still struggling. Our economy is not working for people or the planet. After twenty years of working on inequality I can tell you - we must and can do much better.
Local people deserve better than a Tory MP that has supported the policies that have made life so much more difficult over the past 14 years, but we also cannot accept a Labour candidate who has been parachuted in from Brent council at the last minute and knows nothing about our community and our needs.
We don’t have to accept the binary choice of Conservative or Labour, we have a choice to vote for one of our own, an independent voice free to stand up for our needs and not subject to party positions.
Sign up to support the campaign
The best way to support me is to join my mailing list. You can do this below.