|
|
|
Regent's Park and Kensington North
|
|
gain
from Labour
|
|
Sir John Wheeler
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
13,710 (29.0%)
|
|
28,367 (59.9%)
|
|
4,041 ( 8.5%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,226 ( 2.6%)
|
|
|
|
73,752
|
|
47,344 (64.2%)
|
|
Sir John Wheeler
|
|
Westminster North
|
|
3,814 ( 7.3%)
|
|
21,503 (41.1%)
|
|
25,317 (48.3%)
|
|
4,163 ( 7.9%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,385 ( 2.6%)
|
|
|
Labour
|
|
69,959
|
|
52,368 (74.9%)
|
|
|
-12.1%
|
|
+11.6%
|
|
+0.6%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
-0.1%
|
|
+5.4%
|
|
-10.7%
|
|
|
|
|
As far as the Conservative Party is concerned, the outcome of the boundary changes in the London boroughs of Westminster and Kensington/Chelsea are a disaster. At the 1992 election, there were four seats in these two boroughs, all of them won by the Conservatives. Now there are only three, and one of them, Regent's Park and Kensington North, is almost certainly to be won by Labour. That makes a net gain of three in this part of inner London alone.
Regent's Park and Kensington North could hardly have been better drawn for Labour. It brings together their best areas of support in two boroughs, which they do not control even at local level: the northern part of Kensington beyond Notting Hill Gate, which is the site of the Notting Hill carnival; and the northern part of Westminster around Queen's Park and the Harrow Road. These Labour neighbourhoods will easily outvote the wealthy ward of St John's Wood and the mixed Little Venice and Maida Vale.
These boundary changes have lost the Conservatives a seat, and left the Westminster North MP Sir John Wheeler without a seat in the Commons.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,492
|
2.95
|
9.03
|
33
|
|
|
274
|
0.54
|
11.17
|
5
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
11.25
|
0
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
14.70
|
0
|
|
|
27,917
|
55.20
|
10.45
|
528
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
2.81
|
0
|
|
|
566
|
1.12
|
8.01
|
14
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
15.25
|
0
|
|
|
888
|
1.76
|
7.13
|
25
|
|
|
18,362
|
36.31
|
10.17
|
357
|
|
|
