Editing Nirj Deva (section)

==British Parliament==
Deva stood as the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in [[Hammersmith (UK Parliament constituency)|Hammersmith]] at the [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987 general election]] but lost by 2,415 votes to sitting [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP [[Clive Soley]].<ref>{{cite web|title=UK General Election results June 1987|url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge87/i10.htm|publisher=politicsresources.net|access-date=1 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508153159/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge87/i10.htm|archive-date=8 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Geddes|first1=Andrew|editor1-last=Saggar|editor1-first=Shamit|title=Race And British Electoral Politics|date=1998|publisher=[[UCL Press]]|location=London|isbn=0-203-21405-6|page=174|chapter=7 Inequality, political opportunity and ethnic minority parliamentary candidacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_KNAgAAQBAJ}}</ref>

At the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]], Deva was elected to the House of Commons as MP for the [[London]] constituency of [[Brentford and Isleworth]] with a majority of 2,086.<ref>{{cite web|title=UK General Election results April 1992|url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i03.htm|publisher=politicsresources.net|access-date=1 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811135952/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i03.htm|archive-date=11 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> During his time in Parliament, Deva served as a [[Parliamentary private secretary]] (PPS) at the [[Scottish Office]]. Deva was only the fifth Asian-born person to be elected a Member of the House of Commons and serve in the British Government.{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}}

He was defeated in the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]], losing to the Labour candidate [[Ann Keen]] by 14,424 votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brentford & Isleworth|url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/044.htm|publisher=politicsresources.net|access-date=1 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602200151/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/044.htm|archive-date=2 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>