Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn and St. Pancras
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Boundary of Holborn and St. Pancras in Greater London for the 2010 general election.
County Greater London
Electorate 85,243 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1983 (1983)
Member of Parliament Frank Dobson (Labour)
Number of members One
Created from St Pancras North and Holborn & St Pancras South
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency London

Holborn and St. Pancras is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.

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Constituency profile

The seat extends from Covent Garden in the heart of the West End of London up through trendy Camden Town to the affluent suburb of Highgate, a long, slender strip covering several very diverse parts of London.

Property prices in the seat are amongst the highest in London, but there are also high levels of rented and social housing, particularly in the middle of the seat around Camden Town and Kings Cross - Kings Cross, St. Pancras and Euston railway stations are all in the seat.

With so many contrasting parts, all three main parties have a solid voter base in the seat, though Labour have held on fairly comfortably against split opposition.

Boundaries

The seat was created in 1983 as a successor to Holborn and St. Pancras South which had been in existence since 1950. It covers the southern half of the London Borough of Camden which includes the districts of Camden Town, King's Cross, Gospel Oak, Kentish Town and Bloomsbury and is made up of eleven electoral wards from the London Borough of Camden:

Boundary review for the 2010 election

Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England recommended the creation of a modified Holborn and St. Pancras constituency. To effect this change parts of Highgate ward, Gospel Oak ward, Haverstock ward and Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward were transferred from the former constituency of Hampstead and Highgate.

Gospel Oak has high deprivation levels, but Highgate ward has low deprivation levels, producing little change overall. (Gospel Oak had previously been part of the constituency, but had been moved to Hampstead and Highgate at the last review.) The electorate of the new seat would have been 85,188 if it had existed at the 2005 General Election the figure has since risen further and at the 2010 general election, it now has one of the highest electorates in London.

Members of Parliament

The seat has been held since 1983 by Frank Dobson for Labour, who had been elected in 1979 to the predecessor seat of Holborn & St. Pancras South. Dobson is now the longest serving Labour MP in London.

Election Member [2] Party
1983 Frank Dobson Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Holborn & St Pancras[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Dobson 25,198 46.1 +1.0
Liberal Democrat Jo Shaw 15,256 27.9 +1.8
Conservative George Lee 11,134 20.4 -0.5
Green Natalie Bennett 1,480 2.7 -4.8
BNP Robert Carlyle 779 1.4 N/A
UKIP Max Spencer 587 1.1 N/A
Independent John Chapman 96 0.2 N/A
English Democrats Mikel Susperregi 75 0.1 N/A
Independent Iain Meek 44 0.1 N/A
Majority 9,942 17.9%
Turnout 54,649 62.9% +9.7
Labour hold Swing -0.4

note that the 2010 "swings" are based on the notional result for 2005 in the new boundaries.

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Holborn & St Pancras
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Dobson 14,857 43.2 -10.7
Liberal Democrat Jill Fraser 10,070 29.3 +11.3
Conservative Margot James 6,482 18.9 +2.0
Green Adrian Oliver 2,798 8.1 +2.1
Rainbow Dream Ticket Rainbow George Weiss 152 0.4 +0.4
Majority 4,787 13.9
Turnout 34,359 50.4 +0.8
Labour hold Swing -11.0
General Election 2001: Holborn & St Pancras
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Dobson 16,770 53.9 -11.1
Liberal Democrat Nat Green 5,595 18.0 +5.5
Conservative Roseanne Serrelli 5,258 16.9 -1.0
Green Rob Whitley 1,875 6.0 N/A
Socialist Alliance Candy Udwin 971 3.1 N/A
Socialist Labour Joti Brar 359 1.2 N/A
UKIP Magnus Nielsen 301 1.0 N/A
Majority 11,175 35.9
Turnout 31,129 49.6 -10.7
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Holborn and St. Pancras[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank Dobson 22,243 54.8 +4.1
Conservative AJ McHallam 11,419 28.1 -3.0
Liberal Democrat Mrs J Horne-Roberts 5,476 13.5 -4.1
Green PA Wolf-Light 959 2.4 +2.4
Natural Law MK Hersey 212 0.5 +0.5
Socialist (GB) R Headicar 175 0.4 +0.4
Independent N Lewis 133 0.3 +0.3
Majority 10,824 26.6 +7.1
Turnout 40,617 62.7 -1.6
Labour hold Swing +3.6

See also

References

  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
  3. ^ http://www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/content/council-and-democracy/news/2010/april/twocolumn/holborn-and-st-pancras-constituency---statement-of-persons-nominated.en
  4. ^ BBC News: Holborn & St Pancras
  5. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010. 

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