Hampstead Town (ward)

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.

Hampstead Town
Electoral ward
CountryUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
RegionLondon
CountyGreater London
London boroughCamden
Created1 April 1965
Named forHampstead
Map of the Hampstead Town ward as it existed from 1978 to 2002 within the London Borough of Camden.

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 election, 22 May 2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Simon Marcus 1,465 15.3%
Conservative Stephen Stark 1,380 14.4%
Conservative Tom Currie 1,272 13.3%
Liberal Democrats Linda Chung 1,148 12.0%
Labour Rachel Agnew 726 7.6%
Labour Maddy Raman 711 7.4%
Labour Luca Salice 609 6.3%
Liberal Democrats James Newsome 575 6.0%
Liberal Democrats Robert Carruthers 542 5.6%
Green Sophie Dix 512 5.3%
Green Maisie King 365 3.8%
Green Prashant Bhaskar Vaze 288 3.0%
Majority 124 1.3%
Turnout 9,593 43.7%
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats 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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References
  1. London Borough Council Elections (1964) Archived 22 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. London Borough Council Elections (1978) Archived 15 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. London Borough Council Elections (2002) Archived 22 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Camden Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
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