Holborn & St Pancras.
Labour Party MP Keir Starmer holds the seat on 48.9% of the vote.
9 Jun 2026
Inner-London Camden seat, Labour-held, Green-pressed
Holborn and St Pancras is a dense inner-London seat covering the southern half of the borough of Camden, home to roughly 111,000 people and built almost entirely from one continuous urban area rather than any network of distinct towns. It is young and highly educated, with a median age of 32 and around half of residents holding a degree, a profile shaped by the universities, teaching hospitals and the King's Cross, St Pancras and Euston termini that sit within its bounds. Just over half the population records as White at the last census, marking it as one of the more ethnically mixed seats in the capital. A single authority, Camden, a London borough council, runs local services across the eleven wards that fall inside the constituency.
Camden has long leaned Labour, and the most recent ward contests, held in May 2026, did little to disturb that pattern. Across thirty ward results, Labour and its Co-operative allies took the clear majority, though the Green Party carried seven, with notable strength in Holborn and Covent Garden and a foothold in Bloomsbury. Turnouts across the wards were modest, as is common in inner-London local polls. At parliamentary level the seat returned Labour in 2024 on just under half the vote, with an Independent the distant runner-up on a fifth, a margin that narrowed sharply from the commanding result of 2019. The sitting member, Keir Starmer, has held the seat since 2015.
The constituency therefore looks secure for Labour, even as the local picture shows a Green challenge gathering in pockets and a softened parliamentary margin. Recent coverage has carried a broadly administrative, election-focused tenor, dwelling on familiar borough themes of housing, community safety and local services. Several offence categories appear to run well above the national constituency average, with theft from the person and other theft conspicuously so, a pattern consistent with a central seat dense in transport hubs and footfall. On the figures available, the area reads as settled at Westminster but locally contested at the margins.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomsbury(3 seats) | Harrison · Carr · Francis | 2,642 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Camden Square(2 seats) | Abdi-Wali · Leman | 1,738 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Camden Town(2 seats) | Cooper · Callaghan | 1,366 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Haverstock(3 seats) | Atolagbe · Djemai · Filer | 3,943 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Holborn & Covent Garden(3 seats) | Chowdhury · White · Monahan | 3,591 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Kentish Town North(2 seats) | Slater · McNamara | 2,718 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Kentish Town South(3 seats) | Williams · Ball · Apak | 4,186 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| King's Cross(3 seats) | Simpson · Martin-Lane · Bautista | 3,022 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Primrose Hill(3 seats) | Corby · Keiles · Osman | 3,418 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| Regent's Park(3 seats) | Naser · Jaigirdar · Mery | 3,202 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
| St Pancras & Somers Town(3 seats) | Khatoon · Bakth · Miah | 3,109 | Camden Lab | May 2026 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Camden (105,554). Total population across named built-up areas: 105,554.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Camden | 105,554 | city |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 52.6% | 57.1% | -8% |
| Owner-occupied | 24.2% | 63.1% | -62% |
| Private rented | 31.2% | 20.0% | +56% |
| Social rented | 44.2% | 16.8% | +163% |
Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £1230m |
| Taxpayers | 53,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £4,380 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £23,200 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Camden. Each council’s service spend, peer rank and supplier list lives on its own page — open from the meta block above or the compass strip below.
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Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keir StarmerWON | Lab | 18,884 | 48.9 |
| Andrew Feinstein | Ind | 7,312 | 18.9 |
| David Stansell | Grn | 4,030 | 10.4 |
| Mehreen Malik | Con | 2,776 | 7.2 |
| David Roberts | Ref | 2,371 | 6.1 |
| Charlie Clinton | LD | 2,236 | 5.8 |
| Wais Islam | Ind | 636 | 1.6 |
| Nick the Incredible Flying Brick | Ind | 162 | 0.4 |
| John Poynton | Ind | 75 | 0.2 |
| Tom Scripps | Ind | 61 | 0.2 |
| Senthil Kumar | Ind | 40 | 0.1 |
| Bobby Smith | Ind | 19 | 0.1 |
Turnout 38,602
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Keir Starmer | Lab | 64.5 |
| 2017 | Keir Starmer | Lab | 70.1 |
| 2015 | Keir Starmer | Lab | 52.9 |
| 2010 | Dobson, Frank | Lab | 46.1 |
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo