Holborn and Covent Garden | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Constituent country | England |
Region | London |
County | Greater London |
London borough | Camden |
Created | May 2002 |
Named for | Holborn and Covent Garden |
Holborn and Covent Garden is a ward of the London borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. As the name suggests, it covers the parts of Holborn and Covent Garden that lie in Camden; the eastern part of Holborn lies in the City of London and the southern part of Covent Garden lies in the City of Westminster. For elections to Parliament, Holborn and Covent Garden is part of Holborn and St Pancras.
The ward lies in the far south of the borough, and is one of three wards of Camden south of Euston Road (along with Bloomsbury and King's Cross). It is separated from Bloomsbury by New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury Street, Great Russell Street, and Southampton Row; from King's Cross by Guilford Street and Calthorpe Street; from the borough of Islington by Phoenix Place, Warner Place, Herbal Hill, Clerkenwell Road, and Farringdon Road; from the City of London by Charterhouse Street, High Holborn, and Chancery Lane; and from the City of Westminster by Carey Street, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Sardinia Street, Wild Street, Drury Lane, Shelton Street, West Street, and Charing Cross Road. The ward will undergo boundary changes for the 2022 election. Some of its area will be transferred to the Bloomsbury ward. [1] [2]
The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,264. [3] In 2018, the ward had an electorate of 7,802. [4] The Boundary Commission projects the electorate to rise to 8,341 in 2025. [4]
Term | Councillor | Party | |
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1998–present | Julian Fulbrook | Labour | |
2002–present | Sue Vincent | Labour | |
2010–present | Awale Olad | Labour |
Like all other wards of Camden, Holborn and Covent Garden is represented by three councillors on Camden Borough Council. The last election was held on 3 May 2018, when all three councillors were elected. All councillors elected were members of the Labour Party.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Stephen Barabas | 268 | 3.7 | -0.2 | |
Conservative | Alison Frost | 349 | 4.8 | -2.0 | |
Labour | Julian Fulbrook* | 1 807 | 24.6 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | Maurice Hirt | 362 | 4.9 | -1.3 | |
Conservative | Adam Lester | 354 | 4.8 | -0.8 | |
Independent | Patrick McGinnis | 214 | 2.9 | DNR | |
Labour | Awale Olad* | 1 686 | 23.0 | +3.0 | |
Labour | Sue Vincent* | 1 779 | 24.3 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Erich Wagner | 213 | 2.9 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charlotte Wattebot O'Brien | 299 | 4.1 | +0.9 | |
Turnout | 7 331 | 32.9 | +0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
* denotes an incumbent
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Julian Fulbrook* | 1 716 | 21.4 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Sue Vincent* | 1 705 | 21.3 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Awale Olad* | 1 604 | 20.0 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Alison Frost | 544 | 6.8 | -0.3 | |
Conservative | Andrew Keep | 497 | 6.2 | -0.8 | |
Conservative | Richard Merrin | 446 | 5.6 | -0.8 | |
Green | Luke Dowding | 419 | 5.2 | -0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Naughtie | 312 | 3.9 | +1.4 | |
Green | John Mason | 291 | 3.6 | -1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charlotte B.C. Wattebot O'Brien | 257 | 3.2 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eric Wagner | 216 | 2.7 | +0.7 | |
Turnout | 8 007 | 32.5 | -3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
* denotes an incumbent
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Julian Fulbrook* | 1 844 | 20.5 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Sue Vincent* | 1 714 | 19.0 | +5.0 | |
Labour | Awale Olad* | 1 588 | 17.6 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | Alison Frost | 635 | 7.0 | -2.1 | |
Conservative | Lewis Barber | 601 | 6.7 | -1,7 | |
Conservative | Daniel Nesbitt | 576 | 6.4 | -1.8 | |
Green | Niki Brain | 480 | 5.3 | +0.9 | |
Green | Eve Mullen | 458 | 5.1 | +1.7 | |
Green | Anthony Quinn | 357 | 4.0 | +1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Richard Allen | 222 | 2.5 | -5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Simmons | 196 | 2.2 | -3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ken Wright | 181 | 2.0 | -3.7 | |
Independent | Robert Carlyle | 162 | 1.8 | +0.5 | |
Turnout | 9,046 | 35.5 | -22.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
* denotes an incumbent
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Julian Fulbrook* | 2 279 | 16.4 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Sue Vincent* | 1 947 | 14 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Awale Olad | 1 784 | 12.8 | +0.2 | |
Conservative | Alison Frost | 1 277 | 9.2 | -1.2 | |
Conservative | Richard Hopkin | 1 168 | 8.4 | -1.3 | |
Conservative | Abdus Samad | 1,147 | 8.2 | -1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Joy | 1 057 | 7.6 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Waiting | 809 | 5.8 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Wainewright | 799 | 5.7 | +1.3 | |
Green | Suzanne Hartley | 617 | 4.4 | -1.3 | |
Green | Robert McCracken | 472 | 3.4 | -1.3 | |
Green | Benedict Protheroe | 399 | 2.9 | -1.2 | |
BNP | Robert Carlyle | 180 | 1.3 | DNR | |
Turnout | 13,935 | 58.2 | +26.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Vincent* | 1 085 | 13.8 | -2.4 | |
Labour | Julian Fulbrook* | 1 079 | 13.8 | -3,2 | |
Labour | Brian Woodrow* | 988 | 12.6 | -3.2 | |
Conservative | Alison Frost | 810 | 10.3 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Timothy Barnes | 758 | 9.7 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Philip Nelson | 731 | 9.3 | +2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Hanna | 489 | 6.2 | +0.3 | |
Green | Benedict Protheroe | 449 | 5.7 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stanley Grossman | 417 | 5.3 | -0.1 | |
Green | Grace Hodgkinson-Barrett | 364 | 4.6 | +0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simieon Litman | 347 | 4.4 | -0.1 | |
Green | Stuart Houghton | 319 | 4.1 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 178 | 2.3 | -59.0 | ||
Turnout | 7 836 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Julian Fulbrook | 950 | 17.0 | ||
Labour | Sue Vincent | 908 | 16.2 | ||
Labour | Brian Woodrow | 884 | 15.8 | ||
Conservative | Patsy Prince | 449 | 8.0 | ||
Conservative | Dominic Valder | 411 | 7.4 | ||
Conservative | Robert Ricketts | 389 | 7.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Eleanor Key | 331 | 5.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Alastir Loraine | 305 | 5.5 | ||
Green | Nicholas Duckett | 255 | 4.6 | ||
Green | Seanine Joyce | 253 | 4.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Herbert Newbrook | 251 | 4.5 | ||
Green | Hugo Charlton | 205 | 3.7 | ||
Turnout | 5 591 |
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