Kensington (UK Parliament constituency)

Kensington
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Kensington in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	62,784 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Victoria Borwick (Conservative)
Created from	Kensington and Chelsea
1974–1997
Replaced by	Kensington and Chelsea
Created from	Kensington North & Kensington South
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Kensington is a constituency^{[n 1]} in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Victoria Borwick, a Conservative.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

The constituency formed for the 2010 election comprises the northern and central parts of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in and around Kensington and has electoral wards:

Abingdon, Brompton, Campden, Colville, Courtfield, Earls Court, Golborne, Holland, Norland, Notting Barns, Pembridge, Queen's Gate, and St Charles^{[n 3]}

From 1974 to 1983 the constituency comprised electoral wards:

Golborne, Holland, Norland, Pembridge, Queen's Gate and St Charles.

From 1983 to 1997 the constituency comprised electoral wards:

Avondale, Campden, Colville, Golborne, Holland, Kelfield, Norland, Pembridge, Queen's Gate and St Charles.^[2]

History

As to elections contested, it was first created for the February 1974 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election, when mostly replaced by newly created Regent's Park and Kensington North which was served by Labour MPs, won three times during the Blair Ministry, and Kensington and Chelsea which was held by Malcolm Rifkind until his resignation at the 2015 elections.

The constituency was recreated by adopting the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies of the Boundary Commission at the 2010 general election, combining elements of the two constituencies.

Constituency profile

Kensington is mostly residential — housing varies between expensive apartments with manicured gardens in architecturally stunning squares or terraces and, by contrast, North Kensington and Ladbroke Grove have for the mostpart dense social housing, tower blocks in output areas with high rankings in the 2000-compiled Index of Multiple Deprivation.^[3] Kensington High Street is an upmarket shopping hub, Kensington Palace is the residence of several members of the Royal Family, and Kensington Palace Gardens is the site of many embassies and a few private residences for the super-rich. South Kensington also borders Hyde Park and includes Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert.

Earls Court, Brompton, Holland Park and Notting Hill have their own characters. Earls Court comparatively more run-down and cheap than its richer neighbour and while it is undergoing rapid gentrification and includes its own areas for the super-rich, it has still a minority of run-down hotels and bedsits around Earls Court Exhibition Centre, which extends into the marginal Hammersmith seat. Notting Hill is an affluent and trendy area which hosts the Notting Hill Carnival, led by the area's vibrant Afro-Caribbean community. It is a highly cosmopolitan area, but having fallen on hard times in the twentieth century, associated with dingy flats and multiple-occupancy homes but has undergone gentrification; old Victorian private houses in these areas similarly high as Fulham in price.^[4]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[5]	Party
	Feb 1974	Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams	Conservative
	1988(b)	Dudley Fishburn	Conservative
1997		constituency abolished: see Kensington and Chelsea
	2010	Sir Malcolm Rifkind	Conservative
	2015	Victoria Borwick	Conservative

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Kensington^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Victoria Borwick^[8]	18,199	52.3	+2.2
	Labour	Rod Abouharb	10,838	31.1	+5.6
	Liberal Democrat	Robin McGhee	1,962	5.6	−13.9
	Green	Robina Rose	1,765	5.1	+2.9
	UKIP	Jack Bovill^[9]	1,557	4.5	+2.3
	CISTA	Tony Auguste	211	0.6	+0.6
	Animal Welfare	Andrew Knight	158	0.5	+0.5
	Alliance for Green Socialism	Toby Abse	115	0.3	−0.2
	New Independent Centralists	Roland Courtenay	23	0.1	+0.1
Majority			7,361	21.1	−3.4
Turnout			34,828	57.0	+3.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.7

General Election 2010: Kensington^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Malcolm Rifkind	17,595	50.1	+6.2
	Labour	Sam Gurney	8,979	25.5	−4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Robin Meltzer	6,872	19.6	−0.6
	UKIP	Caroline Pearson^[11]	754	2.1	+1.0
	Green	Melan Ebrahimi-Fardouée	753	2.1	−2.4
	Alliance for Green Socialism	Eddie Adams	197	0.6	+0.2
Majority			8,616	24.5
Turnout			35,150	53.3	+1.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Kensington^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Dudley Fishburn	15,540	50.3	+2.8
	Labour	Mrs. Patricia Ann Holmes	11,992	38.8	+5.6
	Liberal Democrat	Chris K. Shirley	2,770	9.0	−8.3
	Green	Ajay Burlingham-Johnson	415	1.3	−1.4
	Natural Law	Anthony J. W. Hardy	90	0.3	N/A
	Anti-Federalist League	Anne Bulloch	71	0.2	N/A
Majority			3,548	11.5
Turnout			30,878	73.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.4

Elections in the 1980s

Kensington by-election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Dudley Fishburn	9,829	41.59	−5.9
	Labour	Mrs. Patricia Ann Holmes	9,014	38.14	+4.9
	Social and Liberal Democrats	William Howard Goodhart	2,546	10.77	−6.5
	Social Democratic	John Martin	1,190	5.04	N/A
	Green	Phylip Hobson	572	2.42	+0.7
	Rainbow Alliance - Payne & Pleasure	Cynthia Payne	193	0.82	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Screaming Lord Sutch	61	0.26	N/A
	London Class War Candidate	John Duignan	60	0.25	N/A
	Anti Left-Wing Fascist	Brian Goodier	31	0.13	N/A
	Free Trade Liberal - Europe Out!	Thomas McDermott	31	0.13	N/A
	Fair Wealth & Health	Roy Edey	30	0.13	N/A
	Leveller Party	William Scola	27	0.11	N/A
	Anti-Yuppie	John Crowley	24	0.10	N/A
	Peace - Stop ITN Manipulation	John Connell	20	0.08	N/A
	Independent Janata Party	Kailash Trivedi	5	0.02	N/A
Majority			815	3.4	-10.9
Turnout			23,633	51.6	−13.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Kensington^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Brandon Rhys-Williams	14,818	47.5	+1.5
	Labour	Benjamin Theophilus Bousquet	10,371	33.3	+3.8
	Social Democratic	William Howard Goodhart	5,379	17.2	−4.9
	Green	Roger Everingham Shorter	528	1.7	−0.4
	Humanist	Lana Queenie Yvonne Carrick	65	0.2	N/A
	Public Independent Plaintiff Party	Muriel Hughes	30	0.1	N/A
Majority			4,447	14.26
Turnout			31,191	64.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Kensington^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Brandon Rhys-Williams	14,274	46.0
	Labour	Benjamin Theophilus Bousquet	9,173	29.5
	Social Democratic	William Howard Goodhart	6,873	22.1
	Ecology	Jonathon Porritt	649	2.1
	Independent	T.F. Knight	86	0.3
Majority			5,101	16.4
Turnout			31,055	62.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Brandon Rhys-Williams	17,361	51.3
	Labour	P Holmes	11,898	35.2
	Liberal	B Vincent-Emery	3,537	10.5
	Ecology	Nicholas Albery^[15]	698	2.06
	National Front	C Hopewell	356	1.05
Majority			5,463	16.14
Turnout				64.60
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Brandon Rhys-Williams	15,562	45.2	−0.9
	Labour	John Vincent Tilley	13,645	39.6	+6.4
	Liberal	R. Cohen	5,236	15.2	−5.5
Majority			1,917	5.6
Turnout			34,443	56.4	−9.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Kensington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Brandon Rhys-Williams	18,425	46.1	N/A
	Labour	John Vincent Tilley	13,293	33.2	N/A
	Liberal	Robert LeFever^[16]	8,270	20.7	N/A
Majority			5,132	12.8	N/A
Turnout			39,988	65.8	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
↑ The remaining electoral wards in the Royal Borough involved: Cremorne, Hans Town, Redcliffe, Royal Hospital, and Stanley were lost to the cross-borough Chelsea and Fulham.

References

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ Crewe, Ivor (1983). British Parliament Constituencies - a statistical compendium. faber and faber. ISBN 0-571-13236-7.
↑ 2001 Census
↑ Postcode Guide from Mouseprice for West Kensington (W14)
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/council/local-democracy-and-elections/election-results-archive/general-election-may-2015-kensington
↑ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/14/victoria-borwick-kensington-conservative-candidate
↑ https://yournextmp.com/person/6866/jack-bovill
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ Move over Sarah and SamCam ... step up Lady Caroline of UKIP Mail Online, 14 April 2010
↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Obituary: Nicholas Albery". Daily Telegraph. 13 June 2001. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
↑ "Election leaflet for Robert Lefever, Liberal candidate for Kensington, February 1974 general election". University of Warwick. Retrieved 9 June 2014.

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Labour (45)	Barking Bermondsey and Old Southwark Bethnal Green and Bow Brent Central Brentford and Isleworth Brent North Camberwell and Peckham Croydon North Dagenham and Rainham Dulwich and West Norwood Ealing Central and Acton Ealing North Ealing Southall East Ham Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Erith and Thamesmead Feltham and Heston Greenwich and Woolwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hampstead and Kilburn Holborn and St. Pancras Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West and Penge Leyton and Wanstead Mitcham and Morden Poplar and Limehouse Streatham Tooting Tottenham Vauxhall Walthamstow West Ham Westminster North

Conservative (26)	Battersea Beckenham Bexleyheath and Crayford Bromley and Chislehurst Chelsea and Fulham Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon South Enfield Southgate Finchley and Golders Green Harrow East Hendon Hornchurch and Upminster Kensington Kingston and Surbiton Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Putney Romford Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner Sutton and Cheam Twickenham Uxbridge and South Ruislip Wimbledon

Liberal Democrats (2)	Carshalton and Wallington Richmond Park

London European constituency: Labour (4) Conservative (2) Green (1) UKIP (1)

Historic constituencies in London

1974	Acton Barking Battersea North Battersea South Beckenham Bermondsey Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing North Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith North Hampstead Harrow Central Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras South Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford North Ilford South Islington Central Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Central Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Orpington Paddington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond Romford Ruislip-Northwood St Marylebone St Pancras North Sidcup Southall Stepney and Poplar Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wimbledon Wood Green Woolwich East Woolwich West

1983	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Stepney Bexleyheath Bow and Poplar Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton and Wallington Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing Acton Ealing North Ealing Southall Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond and Barnes Romford Ruislip-Northwood Southwark and Bermondsey Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Westminster North Wimbledon Woolwich

Coordinates: 51°30′18″N 0°12′00″W / 51.505°N 0.20°W / 51.505; -0.20

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