The other finalists were Melanie Hampton, Michelle Lowe and Liz Stevenson.
ConHome thinks this is the first all women final and local activists insist the four women were all there entirely on merit.
The Conservatives are in third place in the seat currently held by Tessa Jowell for Labour with a majority of nearly 9,000.
This feature about Kemi appeared in The Observer in December 2006:
"Kemi Adegoke, 26
A systems analyst for a bank, Kemi, who grew up in Nigeria, is studying for a law degree and volunteers for David Cameron's Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy group.
Since Cameron became leader, I've been increasingly aware it's OK to be a Tory again. Before that people would walk away from me in bars if I told them, and I was even slapped once. I was at an Oxfam event with other Conservatives and this middle-aged lady was saying that a party of white, middle-class men from the west couldn't possibly help Africans - especially women and children. When I pointed out that I, a black African woman, was also a member, she insisted I didn't know what I was doing and hit me across the face. I admit I found the idea of being slapped by a white woman preaching racial harmony and non-violence slightly ironic.
It isn't just the general public who wonder, either. Other party members have quizzed me because they don't understand my enthusiasm. You see, I may not fit the image of a stereotypical Conservative, but we really don't have a one-size-fits-all stereotype. For instance, although the media portrays the party as homophobic, since joining I have met more openly gay people - from councillors to MPs - than ever before.
Certainly it seems to be unusual for a black woman to have these views though, as many people from ethnic-minority backgrounds have a distrust of the Conservatives, which I put down to several reasons: the idea that we're solely a party for the rich, branding Nelson Mandela and the ANC as terrorists, the party's hard line on immigration and policing, and, of course, Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech.
However, I like the civil liberty traditions here because I grew up in the sort of place where I used to have to 'tip' the police to go about my daily business and where you weren't allowed to express yourself. That's part of the reason why I find Labour's belief that everything can be solved by introducing new laws so worrying. The day after the BNP's Nick Griffin was cleared of inciting racial hatred Gordon Brown decided the law needed 'reviewing'. This is a dangerous way of thinking. You can't legislate bad feelings away and if you criminalise them you will just drive them underground. It's important that everyone who has something to say says it and then we will know who they are. It's easier to deal with things when they are out in the open, so I would rather know who members of the BNP are, for example, than sit next to one at work unaware that he'd been banned from expressing his real views.
However, I'm not one of those Conservatives who thinks every problem in the country is down to Blair and the Labour Party. I just believe that the Conservatives would do a much better job of running the country.
What's special about Cameron isn't his changing the party, but his ability to demonstrate the way it already has changed and highlight some of the great things we care about which many people are unaware of."
