Hampstead Town (ward)

Hampstead Town
Electoral ward
Hampstead Town highlighted within Camden
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	London
County	Greater London
London borough	Camden
Created	1 April 1965
Named for	Hampstead

Map of the Hampstead Town ward as it previously existed from 1978 to 2002 within the London Borough of Camden.

Hampstead Town is a ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. It covers most of Hampstead Village, the western half of Hampstead Heath, North End, the Vale of Heath, and part of Belsize Park. The more residential Frognal and Fitzjohns covers much of the rest of Hampstead.

The ward has existed since the creation of the borough on 1 April 1965 and was first used in the 1964 elections.^[1] The ward was redrawn in May 1978^[2] and May 2002.^[3]

The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,270.^[4]

Its notable councillors have included two leaders of the opposition, Alan Greengross (1974-1978) and Oliver Cooper (2015-),

Election results[]

Hampstead Town ward election, 3 May 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Stark	1,522	14.6%	0.7%
	Conservative	Oliver Cooper	1,455	14.0%	0.4%
	Conservative	Maria Higson	1,400	13.6%	0.3%
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Chung	1,247	12.0%
	Labour	Sue Cullinan	898	8.6%	1.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Haslam Jones	879	8.5%	2.5%
	Liberal Democrats	Will Coles	826	7.9%	2.3%
	Labour	Sunny Mandich	811	7.8%	0.4%
	Labour	James Slater	799	7.7%	1.4%
	Green	Richard Dunham Bourne	243	2.3%	3.0%
	Green	Michael Wulff Pawlyn	175	1.7%	2.1%
	Green	Ramsay Short	135	1.3%	1.7%
Majority			153	1.5%	0.2%
Turnout			10,390	46.5%	2.8%
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hampstead Town ward by-election, 7 May 2015
Replacing Simon Marcus (resigned)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oliver Cooper	2,693	50.9	8.0
	Labour	Maddy Raman	1,381	26.1	4.8
	Green	Sophie Dix	597	11.3	0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Yannick Bultingaire	543	10.3	13.3
	Independent	Nigel Rumble	73	1.4	N/A
Majority			1,312	24.8
Turnout			5,287	67
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hampstead Town ward by-election, 27 September 2012
Replacing Kirsty Roberts (resigned)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Marcus	1,040	42.4%	1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jeffrey Fine	695	28.3%	7.3
	Labour	Maddy Raman	512	20.9%	4.5
	Green	Sophie Dix	207	8.4%	1.0
Majority			345	14.1%
Turnout			2,454	29.6%
	Conservative hold		Swing

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