Haverstock (ward)

Haverstock
ward for Camden Council
Boundary of Haverstock in Camden.
County	Greater London
Current ward
Created	2002 (2002)
Councillor	Alison Kelly (Labour)
Councillor	Abdul Quadir (Labour)
Councillor	Gail McAnena Wood (Labour)
Number of councillors	Three
UK Parliament constituency	Holborn and St Pancras

Haverstock is a ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. The ward has existed since the May 2002 local elections^[1] and covers most of the Haverstock and Chalk Farm areas.

The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 12,364.^[2]

History[]

The ward has been represented by three Labour Party councillors since the 2014 election.

Upon its creation for the 2002 election, the seat elected three Labour councillors. After John Dickie resigned as a councillor in 2003, a by-election was held for the vacant position, which was won by Jill Fraser, a Liberal Democrat, with the Labour candidate coming second. She retained her seat in the 2006 election and was elected alongside two Labour candidates. Labour councillor Roy Shaw resigned his position in 2007 due to ill health, and in the subsequent by-election, Matt Sanders, a Liberal Democrat, was elected over the Labour candidate.^[3]

Councillor Syed Hoque defected from the Labour Party to join the Liberal Democrats in 2009, leaving the ward represented by three Liberal Democrats.^[4] Hoque's death in 2010 resulted in the 2010 election in Haverstock being delayed from 6 May to 25 May. The Liberal Democrats held all three seats.^[5]

Labour regained all three seats in the 2014 election, defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrats, and retained their seats in the 2018 election. In 2019, Abi Wood stood down as a councillor,^[6] triggering a by-election held on the same day as the 2019 United Kingdom general election.^[7] The by-election was won by the Labour candidate, Gail McAnena Wood.

Councillors[]

Elections[]

Elections in the 2010s[]

2018 council election: Haverstock^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alison Kelly	1,814	61.6	14.8
	Labour	Abdul Quadir	1,653	56.1	12.9
	Labour	Abi Wood	1,606	54.5	14.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jill Fraser	661	22.4	7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Francis Edmund Fleming	412	14.0	12.7
	Green	Pam Walker	401	13.6	1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Yannick Bultingaire	383	13.0	12.0
	Conservative	Daniel Ellis	354	12.0	2.4
	Conservative	Tom Ewins	321	10.9	1.6
	Green	Mike Sumner	317	10.8	0.9
	Conservative	Rahoul Bhansali	305	10.4	2.4
	Green	Mike Turner	241	8.2	1.6
Majority			945
Turnout				33.6	8.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2014 council election: Haverstock^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alison Kelly	1,707	46.8
	Labour	Abdul Quadir	1,578	43.2
	Labour	Abi Wood	1,462	40.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jill Fraser	1,081	29.6
	Liberal Democrats	Matt Sanders	976	26.7
	Liberal Democrats	Rahel Mohammed Bokth	913	25.0
	Green	Charlotte Collins	456	12.5
	Green	Una Sapietis	361	9.9
	Green	Andre Lopez-Turner	356	9.8
	Conservative	Stephen Daughton	351	9.6
	Conservative	Nathan Davidson	339	9.3
	UKIP	Christopher Cooke	315	8.6
	Conservative	Carole Ricketts	291	8.0
Majority			381
Turnout			10,206	42.5	6.3
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Elections in the 2000s[]

2007 by-election: Haverstock^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Matt Sanders	1,160	43.4	0.2
	Labour	Mike Katz	1,000	37.4	3.0
	Green	Emily Bruni	299	11.2	0.4
	Conservative	Peter Horne	213	8.0	3.2
Majority			160	6.0
Turnout			2,672	34.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

2003 by-election: Haverstock^{[12][citation needed]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jill Fraser	746	42.8	22.0
	Labour	Paul A. H. Thomson	484	27.8	15.8
	Conservative	Peter J. Horne	318	18.2	0.1
	Green	Sarah J. Gillam	112	6.4	9.4
	Socialist Alliance	Sydney E. Platt	84	4.8	4.8
Majority			262	15.0
Turnout			1,744	23.2
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

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