Holborn and Covent Garden (ward)

Holborn and Covent Garden
Electoral ward
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	London
County	Greater London
London borough	Camden
Created	May 2002
Named for	Holborn and Covent Garden

Holborn and Covent Garden is a ward of the London borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. As the name suggests, it covers the parts of Holborn and Covent Garden that lie in Camden; the eastern part of Holborn lies in the City of London and the southern part of Covent Garden lies in the City of Westminster. For elections to Parliament, Holborn and Covent Garden is part of Holborn and St Pancras.

The ward lies in the far south of the borough, and is one of three wards of Camden south of Euston Road (along with Bloomsbury and King's Cross). It is separated from Bloomsbury by New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury Street, Great Russell Street, and Southampton Row; from King's Cross by Guilford Street and Calthorpe Street; from the borough of Islington by Phoenix Place, Warner Place, Herbal Hill, Clerkenwell Road, and Farringdon Road; from the City of London by Charterhouse Street, High Holborn, and Chancery Lane; and from the City of Westminster by Carey Street, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Sardinia Street, Wild Street, Drury Lane, Shelton Street, West Street, and Charing Cross Road.

Councillors

Term		Councillor	Party
	1998–present	Julian Fulbrook	Labour
	1998–present	Sue Vincent	Labour
	2010–present	Awale Olad	Labour

Election results

Like all other wards of Camden, Holborn and Covent Garden is represented by three councillors on Camden Borough Council. The last election was held on 22 May 2014, when all three councillors were elected. All councillors elected were members of the Labour Party.

Elections in the 2010s

Holborn and Covent Garden, 22 May 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	1,844
	Labour	Sue Vincent*	1,714
	Labour	Awale Olad*	1,588
	Conservative	Alison Frost	635
	Conservative	Lewis Barber	601
	Conservative	Daniel Nesbitt	576
	Green	Niki Brain	480
	Green	Eve Mullen	458
	Green	Anthony Quinn	357
	Liberal Democrat	Jeremy Richard Allen	222
	Liberal Democrat	David Simmons	196
	Liberal Democrat	Ken Wright	181
	Independent	Robert Carlyle	162
Turnout			9,046	35.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

* denotes an incumbent

Holborn and Covent Garden, 6 May 2010

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	2,279
	Labour	Sue Vincent*	1,947
	Labour	Awale Olad	1,784
	Conservative	Alison Frost	1,277
	Conservative	Richard Hopkin	1,168
	Conservative	Abdus Samad	1,147
	Liberal Democrat	Patrick Joy	1,057
	Liberal Democrat	Christopher Waiting	809
	Liberal Democrat	Phil Wainewright	799
	Green	Suzanne Hartley	617
	Green	Robert McCracken	472
	Green	Benedict Protheroe	399
	BNP	Robert Carlyle	180
Turnout			13,935	58.2	+26.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

Holborn and Covent Garden ward election, 4 May 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Susan Vincent*	1,085
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	1,079
	Labour	Brian Woodrow*	988
	Conservative	Alison Frost	810
	Conservative	Timothy Barnes	758
	Conservative	Philip Nelson	731
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Hanna	489
	Green	Benedict Protheroe	449
	Liberal Democrat	Stanley Grossman	417
	Green	Grace Hodgkinson-Barrett	364
	Liberal Democrat	Simieon Litman	347
	Green	Stuart Houghton	319
Majority			178
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Holborn and Covent Garden, 2 May 2002

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook	950
	Labour	Sue Vincent	908
	Labour	Brian Woodrow	884
	Conservative	Patsy Prince	449
	Conservative	Dominic Valder	411
	Conservative	Robert Ricketts	389
	Liberal Democrat	Eleanor Key	331
	Liberal Democrat	Alastir Loraine	305
	Green	Nicholas Duckett	255
	Green	Seanine Joyce	253
	Liberal Democrat	Herbert Newbrook	251
	Green	Hugo Charlton	205
Turnout			5,591