King's Park (ward)

King's Park
Electoral ward
Coordinates: 51°33′22″N 0°02′10″W / 51.556°N 0.036°WCoordinates: 51°33′22″N 0°02′10″W / 51.556°N 0.036°W
Country United Kingdom
Constituent country England
Region London
County Greater London
London borough Hackney
Created May 1978
Government
 • Body Hackney London Borough Council

King's Park (from May 1978 to May 2002 Kings Park) is a ward in the London Borough of Hackney and forms part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency. The ward is subject to minor boundary changes taking place in May 2014. It returns three councillors.

1978–2002

Kings Park ward was created for the 1978 local elections,[1] with an electorate of 4,373.[2]

2002–2014

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Hackney in 2002 and a new King's Park ward was created.[3]

The ward returns three councillors to Hackney London Borough Council, with an election every four years. At the previous election on 6 May 2010 Julius Asabgwiy Nkafu, Sharon Patrick, and Saleem Siddiqui all Labour Party candidates, were returned. Turnout was 58%; with 4,346 votes cast.[4]

King's Park ward has a total population of 10,923. This compares with the average ward population within the borough of 10,674.[5]

From 2014

Hackney wards are redrawn from May 2014.[6] The new King's Park ward is mostly unchanged, expanding to the southwest to take in part of the abolished Chatham ward. It has an allocation of three councillors.

References

  1. ↑ London Borough of Hackney (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977
  2. ↑ http://data.london.gov.uk/documents/LBCE_1978-5-4.pdf
  3. ↑ London Borough of Hackney (Electoral Changes) Order 2000
  4. ↑ 2006 Council Elections results for Kings Park (LB Hackney) accessed 11 May 2010
  5. ↑ LB Hackney Borough Profile "1.5 Population density", and table 1.10 "Population by ward, 2001" pp. 20; (LB Hackney, 2006) accessed 6 October 2009
  6. ↑ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2795/pdfs/uksi_20132795_en.pdf

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