Holborn and Covent Garden (ward)

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Holborn and Covent Garden
Camden UK ward map highlighting Holborn & Covent Garden Ward (2021).svg
Holborn and Covent Garden highlighted within Camden
Country United Kingdom
Constituent country England
Region London
County Greater London
London borough Camden
CreatedMay 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.

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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]

Councillors

TermCouncillorParty
1998–presentJulian Fulbrook Labour
2002–presentSue Vincent Labour
2010–presentAwale Olad Labour

Election results

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.

Elections in the 2020s

2022 council election: Holborn and Covent Garden [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Stephen Barabas2683.7-0.2
Conservative Alison Frost3494.8-2.0
Labour Julian Fulbrook*1 80724.6+3.2
Conservative Maurice Hirt3624.9-1.3
Conservative Adam Lester3544.8-0.8
Independent Patrick McGinnis2142.9DNR
Labour Awale Olad*1 68623.0+3.0
Labour Sue Vincent*1 77924.3+3.0
Liberal Democrats Erich Wagner2132.9+0.2
Liberal Democrats Charlotte Wattebot O'Brien2994.1+0.9
Turnout 7 33132.9+0.4
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

* denotes an incumbent

Elections in the 2010s

Holborn and Covent Garden, 3 May 2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Julian Fulbrook*1 71621.4+1.0
Labour Sue Vincent*1 70521.3+2.3
Labour Awale Olad*1 60420.0+2.4
Conservative Alison Frost5446.8-0.3
Conservative Andrew Keep4976.2-0.8
Conservative Richard Merrin4465.6-0.8
Green Luke Dowding4195.2-0.1
Liberal Democrats Andrew Naughtie3123.9+1.4
Green John Mason2913.6-1.4
Liberal Democrats Charlotte B.C. Wattebot O'Brien2573.2+1.0
Liberal Democrats Eric Wagner2162.7+0.7
Turnout 8 00732.5-3.0
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

* denotes an incumbent

Holborn and Covent Garden, 22 May 2014
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Julian Fulbrook*1 84420.5+4.1
Labour Sue Vincent*1 71419.0+5.0
Labour Awale Olad*1 58817.6+4.8
Conservative Alison Frost6357.0-2.1
Conservative Lewis Barber6016.7-1,7
Conservative Daniel Nesbitt5766.4-1.8
Green Niki Brain4805.3+0.9
Green Eve Mullen4585.1+1.7
Green Anthony Quinn3574.0+1.1
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Richard Allen2222.5-5.1
Liberal Democrats David Simmons1962.2-3.6
Liberal Democrats Ken Wright1812.0-3.7
Independent Robert Carlyle1621.8+0.5
Turnout 9,04635.5-22.7
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

* denotes an incumbent

Holborn and Covent Garden, 6 May 2010 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Julian Fulbrook*2 27916.4+2.6
Labour Sue Vincent*1 94714+0.1
Labour Awale Olad1 78412.8+0.2
Conservative Alison Frost1 2779.2-1.2
Conservative Richard Hopkin1 1688.4-1.3
Conservative Abdus Samad1,1478.2-1.1
Liberal Democrats Patrick Joy1 0577.6+1.3
Liberal Democrats Christopher Waiting8095.8+0.5
Liberal Democrats Phil Wainewright7995.7+1.3
Green Suzanne Hartley6174.4-1.3
Green Robert McCracken4723.4-1.3
Green Benedict Protheroe3992.9-1.2
BNP Robert Carlyle1801.3DNR
Turnout 13,93558.2+26.5
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

Holborn and Covent Garden ward election, 4 May 2006
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Susan Vincent*1 08513.8-2.4
Labour Julian Fulbrook*1 07913.8-3,2
Labour Brian Woodrow*98812.6-3.2
Conservative Alison Frost81010.3+2.3
Conservative Timothy Barnes7589.7+2.3
Conservative Philip Nelson7319.3+2.4
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Hanna4896.2+0.3
Green Benedict Protheroe4495.7+1.2
Liberal Democrats Stanley Grossman4175.3-0.1
Green Grace Hodgkinson-Barrett3644.6+0.1
Liberal Democrats Simieon Litman3474.4-0.1
Green Stuart Houghton3194.1+0.4
Majority1782.3-59.0
Turnout 7 836
Labour hold Swing
Holborn and Covent Garden, 2 May 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Julian Fulbrook95017.0
Labour Sue Vincent90816.2
Labour Brian Woodrow88415.8
Conservative Patsy Prince4498.0
Conservative Dominic Valder4117.4
Conservative Robert Ricketts3897.0
Liberal Democrats Eleanor Key3315.9
Liberal Democrats Alastir Loraine3055.5
Green Nicholas Duckett2554.6
Green Seanine Joyce2534.5
Liberal Democrats Herbert Newbrook2514.5
Green Hugo Charlton 2053.7
Turnout 5 591

Coordinates: 51°31′08″N0°07′05″W / 51.519°N 0.118°W / 51.519; -0.118

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