King's Park (ward)
King's Park | |
|---|---|
Electoral ward | |
| Coordinates: 51°33′22″N 0°02′10″W / 51.556°N 0.036°WCoordinates: 51°33′22″N 0°02′10″W / 51.556°N 0.036°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | London |
| County | Greater London |
| London borough | Hackney |
| Created | May 1978 |
| Government | |
| • Body | Hackney London Borough Council |
King's Park (from May 1978 to May 2002 Kings Park) is a ward in the London Borough of Hackney and forms part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency. The ward is subject to minor boundary changes taking place in May 2014. It returns three councillors.
1978–2002[]
Kings Park ward was created for the 1978 local elections,[1] with an electorate of 4,373.[2]
2002–2014[]
There was a revision of ward boundaries in Hackney in 2002 and a new King's Park ward was created.[3]
The ward returns three councillors to Hackney London Borough Council, with an election every four years. At the previous election on 6 May 2010 Julius Asabgwiy Nkafu, Sharon Patrick, and Saleem Siddiqui all Labour Party candidates, were returned. Turnout was 58%; with 4,346 votes cast.[4]
King's Park ward has a total population of 10,923, increasing to 11,098 at the 2011 Census.[5] This compares with the average ward population within the borough of 10,674.[6]
From 2014[]
Hackney wards are redrawn from May 2014.[7] The new King's Park ward is mostly unchanged, expanding to the southwest to take in part of the abolished Chatham ward. It has an allocation of three councillors.
References[]
- ^ London Borough of Hackney (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ London Borough of Hackney (Electoral Changes) Order 2000
- ^ 2006 Council Elections results for Kings Park Archived 2010-05-12 at the Wayback Machine (LB Hackney) accessed 11 May 2010
- ^ "Hackney Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ LB Hackney Borough Profile[permanent dead link] "1.5 Population density", and table 1.10 "Population by ward, 2001" pp. 20; (LB Hackney, 2006) accessed 6 October 2009
- ^ "The Hackney (Electoral Changes) Order 2013 (2013 No. 2795)" (PDF). 30 October 2013.
External links[]
- Wards of the London Borough of Hackney