Holborn and Covent Garden (ward)

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.

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

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. The ward will undergo boundary changes for the 2022 election. Some of its area will be transferred to the Bloomsbury ward.

The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,264. In 2018, the ward had an electorate of 7,802. The Boundary Commission projects the electorate to rise to 8,341 in 2025.

Councillors

Term		Councillor	Party
	1998–present	Julian Fulbrook	Labour
	2002–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 3 May 2018, when all three councillors were elected. All councillors elected were members of the Labour Party.

Elections in the 2020s

2022 council election: Holborn and Covent Garden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Barabas	268	3.7	-0.2
	Conservative	Alison Frost	349	4.8	-2.0
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	1 807	24.6	+3.2
	Conservative	Maurice Hirt	362	4.9	-1.3
	Conservative	Adam Lester	354	4.8	-0.8
	Independent	Patrick McGinnis	214	2.9	DNR
	Labour	Awale Olad*	1 686	23.0	+3.0
	Labour	Sue Vincent*	1 779	24.3	+3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Erich Wagner	213	2.9	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Charlotte Wattebot O'Brien	299	4.1	+0.9
Turnout			7 331	32.9	+0.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

* denotes an incumbent

Elections in the 2010s

Holborn and Covent Garden, 3 May 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	1 716	21.4	+1.0
	Labour	Sue Vincent*	1 705	21.3	+2.3
	Labour	Awale Olad*	1 604	20.0	+2.4
	Conservative	Alison Frost	544	6.8	-0.3
	Conservative	Andrew Keep	497	6.2	-0.8
	Conservative	Richard Merrin	446	5.6	-0.8
	Green	Luke Dowding	419	5.2	-0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Naughtie	312	3.9	+1.4
	Green	John Mason	291	3.6	-1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Charlotte B.C. Wattebot O'Brien	257	3.2	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Eric Wagner	216	2.7	+0.7
Turnout			8 007	32.5	-3.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

* denotes an incumbent

Holborn and Covent Garden, 22 May 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	1 844	20.5	+4.1
	Labour	Sue Vincent*	1 714	19.0	+5.0
	Labour	Awale Olad*	1 588	17.6	+4.8
	Conservative	Alison Frost	635	7.0	-2.1
	Conservative	Lewis Barber	601	6.7	-1,7
	Conservative	Daniel Nesbitt	576	6.4	-1.8
	Green	Niki Brain	480	5.3	+0.9
	Green	Eve Mullen	458	5.1	+1.7
	Green	Anthony Quinn	357	4.0	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Richard Allen	222	2.5	-5.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Simmons	196	2.2	-3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ken Wright	181	2.0	-3.7
	Independent	Robert Carlyle	162	1.8	+0.5
Turnout			9,046	35.5	-22.7
	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	16.4	+2.6
	Labour	Sue Vincent*	1 947	14	+0.1
	Labour	Awale Olad	1 784	12.8	+0.2
	Conservative	Alison Frost	1 277	9.2	-1.2
	Conservative	Richard Hopkin	1 168	8.4	-1.3
	Conservative	Abdus Samad	1,147	8.2	-1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Patrick Joy	1 057	7.6	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Waiting	809	5.8	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Phil Wainewright	799	5.7	+1.3
	Green	Suzanne Hartley	617	4.4	-1.3
	Green	Robert McCracken	472	3.4	-1.3
	Green	Benedict Protheroe	399	2.9	-1.2
	BNP	Robert Carlyle	180	1.3	DNR
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	13.8	-2.4
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook*	1 079	13.8	-3,2
	Labour	Brian Woodrow*	988	12.6	-3.2
	Conservative	Alison Frost	810	10.3	+2.3
	Conservative	Timothy Barnes	758	9.7	+2.3
	Conservative	Philip Nelson	731	9.3	+2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Hanna	489	6.2	+0.3
	Green	Benedict Protheroe	449	5.7	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Stanley Grossman	417	5.3	-0.1
	Green	Grace Hodgkinson-Barrett	364	4.6	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Simieon Litman	347	4.4	-0.1
	Green	Stuart Houghton	319	4.1	+0.4
Majority			178	2.3	-59.0
Turnout			7 836
	Labour hold		Swing

Holborn and Covent Garden, 2 May 2002

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julian Fulbrook	950	17.0
	Labour	Sue Vincent	908	16.2
	Labour	Brian Woodrow	884	15.8
	Conservative	Patsy Prince	449	8.0
	Conservative	Dominic Valder	411	7.4
	Conservative	Robert Ricketts	389	7.0
	Liberal Democrats	Eleanor Key	331	5.9
	Liberal Democrats	Alastir Loraine	305	5.5
	Green	Nicholas Duckett	255	4.6
	Green	Seanine Joyce	253	4.5
	Liberal Democrats	Herbert Newbrook	251	4.5
	Green	Hugo Charlton	205	3.7
Turnout			5 591