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Holborn & St Pancras.

Labour Party MP Keir Starmer holds the seat on 48.9% of the vote.

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Member of ParliamentKeir Starmer · Labour Party
CouncilCamden
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001290
Electorate · 2024
71.3k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
48.9%
Labour Party · +30.0pp over Ind
Settlements
1
Largest: Camden
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
57.8
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

48.9%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
11
Wards · 30 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.11 wards · 30 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Bloomsbury(3 seats)Harrison · Carr · Francis2,642Camden LabMay 2026
Camden Square(2 seats)Abdi-Wali · Leman1,738Camden LabMay 2026
Camden Town(2 seats)Cooper · Callaghan1,366Camden LabMay 2026
Haverstock(3 seats)Atolagbe · Djemai · Filer3,943Camden LabMay 2026
Holborn & Covent Garden(3 seats)Chowdhury · White · Monahan3,591Camden LabMay 2026
Kentish Town North(2 seats)Slater · McNamara2,718Camden LabMay 2026
Kentish Town South(3 seats)Williams · Ball · Apak4,186Camden LabMay 2026
King's Cross(3 seats)Simpson · Martin-Lane · Bautista3,022Camden LabMay 2026
Primrose Hill(3 seats)Corby · Keiles · Osman3,418Camden LabMay 2026
Regent's Park(3 seats)Naser · Jaigirdar · Mery3,202Camden LabMay 2026
St Pancras & Somers Town(3 seats)Khatoon · Bakth · Miah3,109Camden LabMay 2026

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 02Settlements.1 named places

The seat’s population is concentrated in Camden (105,554). Total population across named built-up areas: 105,554.

city 105,554

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Camden105,554city
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate52.6%57.1%-8%
Owner-occupied24.2%63.1%-62%
Private rented31.2%20.0%+56%
Social rented44.2%16.8%+163%

Ethnicity.

White55.1%
Asian21.3%
Black10.8%
Mixed6.8%
Other6.0%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 47.5% Female 52.5% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£36,900
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£82,500
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
29,110
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
49
22 primary · 5 secondary
GCSE pass
67.2%
Attainment 8: 48.2

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£1230m
Taxpayers53,000
Median per taxpayer£4,380
Mean per taxpayer£23,200

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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.

For household tax breakdown

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§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk · 12-month rolling

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
57.8
+179% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
19.3
12-month rolling
Top category
Anti-social behaviour
19% of recorded crime

By category.

Anti-social behaviour11.2
Theft from the person10.0
Violence & sexual offences9.5
Other theft8.3
Shoplifting4.8
Public order2.6
Drugs2.4

Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop

Showing 7 of 15·All 15 categories — full monthly trend & settlement breakdown
§ 06Election history.5 contests · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Keir StarmerWONLab18,88448.9
Andrew FeinsteinInd7,31218.9
David StansellGrn4,03010.4
Mehreen MalikCon2,7767.2
David RobertsRef2,3716.1
Charlie ClintonLD2,2365.8
Wais IslamInd6361.6
Nick the Incredible Flying BrickInd1620.4
John PoyntonInd750.2
Tom ScrippsInd610.2
Senthil KumarInd400.1
Bobby SmithInd190.1

Turnout 38,602

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Keir StarmerLab64.5
2017Keir StarmerLab70.1
2015Keir StarmerLab52.9
2010Dobson, FrankLab46.1
Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
SchoolsDfE · attainment data
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission