Eileen Gordon

Eileen Gordon
Eileen Gordon
Member of Parliament; for Romford
	In office; 1 May 1997 – 14 May 2001
Preceded by	Michael Neubert
Succeeded by	Andrew Rosindell
Personal details
Born	22 October 1946 (age 78)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

Eileen Gordon (born 22 October 1946) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

Gordon was educated at Harold Hill Grammar School, Shoreditch Comprehensive School, and Westminster College, Oxford (Cert.Ed.). She worked as a teacher for the Mawney School in Romford.

She became the Labour Member of Parliament for Romford in 1997, as part of the landslide victory spearheaded by party leader Tony Blair. Gordon was the first MP from her party to be elected for the seat since 1970.

However, despite Blair winning a second term as Prime Minister at the subsequent 2001 election, she lost her seat to the Conservative candidate Andrew Rosindell. It was one of the few Labour losses at that election, which saw her party retain its large majority from the 1997 landslide.

Following her defeat to Rosindell, she returned to work as a researcher for the Labour MP for West Ham, the late Tony Banks.^{[citation needed]}