Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hampstead and Highgate
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency)
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Hampstead and Highgate 2023 Constituency.svg
Location within Greater London
County Greater London
Electorate 74,222 (2023) [1]
Current constituency
Created 2024
Member of Parliament Tulip Siddiq (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Hampstead and Kilburn, Holborn and St Pancras, Hornsey and Wood Green
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Type of constituency Borough constituency
Created from Hampstead and St Pancras North [2]
Replaced by Hampstead and Kilburn, Holborn and St Pancras

Hampstead and Highgate is a parliamentary constituency covering the northern half of the London Borough of Camden, and a small part of the London Borough of Haringey. It includes the villages of Hampstead and Highgate. It has been represented by Tulip Siddiq of the Labour Party since 2024.

Contents

It was abolished in the 2010 general election, with the majority forming the new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn, and part going into the Holborn and St Pancras seat.

Further to the completion of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election. [3]

History

Some areas here were amongst the wealthiest in the UK, but the seat always had an intellectual, artistic middle-class vote associated with the intelligentsia (see main page on Hampstead). It also contained Kilburn, with its large Irish community. The Labour incumbent in Hampstead and Highgate at the time of abolition, Glenda Jackson, retained the new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn in 2010 with a majority of just 42. [4]

Boundaries

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1983–2010 boundaries

1983–1997: The London Borough of Camden wards of Adelaide, Belsize, Fitzjohns, Fortune Green, Frognal, Hampstead Town, Highgate, Kilburn, Priory, South End, Swiss Cottage, and West End.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Camden wards of Adelaide, Belsize, Fitzjohns, Fortune Green, Frognal, Gospel Oak, Hampstead Town, Highgate, Kilburn, Priory, South End, Swiss Cottage, and West End.

In 2002, a Local Government Boundary Commission for England review abolished the Adelaide, Priory, South End and West End wards, whilst it combined Frognal and Fitzjohns into one ward. For the 2005 general election, the electoral wards used in this constituency were Belsize, Camden Town with Primrose Hill (part), Fortune Green, Frognal and Fitzjohns, Gospel Oak (part), Hampstead Town, Haverstock (part), Highgate (part), Kilburn, Swiss Cottage and West Hampstead. [5]

Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England created a new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn by excluding Highgate ward (which became part of Holborn & St Pancras) and including three wards from the neighbouring borough of Brent. Hampstead and Kilburn largely replaced Hampstead and Highgate for the 2010 general election.

2024–present: The London Borough of Camden wards of Belsize, Fortune Green, Frognal, Gospel Oak, Hampstead Town, Highgate, Kilburn, Primrose Hill (part); South Hampstead, and West Hampstead, and the London Borough of Haringey ward of Highgate. [6]

It comprises those parts of the Borough of Camden previously in the abolished Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, plus the Gospel Oak and Highgate wards, transferred from Holborn and St Pancras, and the Highgate ward in the Borough of Haringey, transferred from Hornsey and Wood Green.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [7] Party
1983 Geoffrey Finsberg Conservative
1992 Glenda Jackson Labour
2010 Constituency abolished: see Hampstead and Kilburn
2024 Tulip Siddiq Labour

Elections

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Election results 2019-2024

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Hampstead and Highgate [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tulip Siddiq 23,432 48.3 +0.7
Conservative Don Williams8,46217.4–5.8
Green Lorna Russell6,63013.7+10.0
Liberal Democrats Scott Emery6,18112.7–11.6
Reform UK Catherine Becker2,9406.1+4.8
Rejoin EU Christie Elan-Cane5321.1N/A
Independent Jonathan Livingstone3730.8N/A
Majority14,97030.8+5.4
Turnout 48,55060.7–16.6
Registered electors 80,029
Labour hold Swing Increase2.svg3.3

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [9]
PartyVote %
Labour 27,33847.6
Liberal Democrats 13,93824.3
Conservative 13,29623.2
Green 2,0963.7
Brexit Party 7191.3
Turnout57,38777.3
Electorate74,222

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Hampstead and Highgate [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Glenda Jackson 14,615 38.3 −8.6
Conservative Piers Wauchope 10,88628.5+3.9
Liberal Democrats Ed Fordham10,29327.0+6.5
Green Siân Berry 2,0135.3+0.6
UKIP Magnus Nielsen2750.7−0.2
Rainbow Dream Ticket Rainbow George Weiss 910.2N/A
Majority3,7299.8−12.5
Turnout 38,17355.5+1.2
Labour hold Swing −6.3
General election 2001: Hampstead and Highgate [12] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Glenda Jackson 16,601 46.9 −10.5
Conservative Karl Mennear8,72524.6−2.6
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Simpson7,27320.5+8.1
Green Andrew Cornwell1,6544.7N/A
Socialist Alliance Helen Cooper5591.6N/A
UKIP Thomas McDermott3160.9+0.6
Independent Sister Xnunoftheabove1440.4New
ProLife Alliance Mary Teale920.3New
Independent Amos Klein430.1New
Majority7,87622.3−7.9
Turnout 35,40754.3−13.6
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Hampstead and Highgate [13] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Glenda Jackson 25,275 57.4 +11.2
Conservative Elizabeth Gibson11,99127.2−13.5
Liberal Democrats Bridget Fox5,48112.4+1.4
Referendum Monima Siddique6671.5N/A
Natural Law Jonathan Leslie1470.3+0.1
Rainbow Dream Ticket Ronnie Carroll 1410.3N/A
UKIP P. Prince1230.3N/A
Humanist Robert Harris1050.2N/A
Rizz Party Captain Rizz 1010.2+0.1
Majority13,28430.2+24.7
Turnout 44,03167.9−4.8
Labour hold Swing
General election 1992: Hampstead and Highgate [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Glenda Jackson 19,193 45.1 +7.5
Conservative Oliver Letwin 17,75341.8−0.7
Liberal Democrats David Wrede4,76511.2−8.1
Green Stephen Games5941.4N/A
Natural Law Richard Prosser860.2N/A
Rainbow Ark Voters AssociationAnna Hall440.1N/A
ScallywaggCharles Scallywag Wilson440.1N/A
Rizz Party Captain Rizz 330.1N/A
Majority1,4403.3N/A
Turnout 42,51272.7+1.2
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +4.1

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Hampstead and Highgate [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Geoffrey Finsberg 19,236 42.5 +1.3
Labour Philip Turner17,01537.6+3.9
SDP Anne Sofer 8,74419.3−5.5
Rainbow Dream Ticket Rainbow George Weiss 1370.3N/A
Humanist Sarah Ellis1340.3N/A
Majority2,2214.9−2.6
Turnout 45,26671.5+4.6
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1983: Hampstead and Highgate [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Geoffrey Finsberg 18,366 41.2
Labour John McDonnell 14,99633.7
SDP Anne Sofer 11,03024.8
Independent J.V. Stevenson1560.4
Majority3,3707.5
Turnout 44,54866.9
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

References

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  2. "'Hampstead and Highgate', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  3. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – London | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  4. Glenda Jackson sneaks home with majority of 42 Evening Standard, 7 May 2010
  5. "North London Ward Breakdown". Electoral Calculus. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  6. "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 3 London region.
  7. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
  8. "General election results". London Borough of Camden. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  9. "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament . Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  10. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 Hampstead and Highgate Constituency The Guardian
  12. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  13. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  14. "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  16. "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  17. "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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