document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "acda5944780a4b74ceafee8d5cfab969" );document.getElementById("j4f6c8e156").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Copyright Anthony Wells 2004-2013. I thought he might have been been gifted Twickenham to take over from Vince Cable. I think the demographics are going against the Tories, unless all the new builds help them. The point is that Sherman was defending Porter on the basis that she was saving Westminster from becoming a Labour fiefdom and the associated problems he perceived. Nearby the government departments on Whitehall itself and now spreading down Victoria Street, also the location of New Scotland Yard. The Lib Dems have promised to revoke Article 50. The family favourite shop has even called the new product 'divine'! Across the Marylebone Road flyover, its Hyde Park ward in CLW, and it’s still very Middle Eastern, but far more upmarket. I presume you are disagreeing that Labour will take the council next time (it isn’t clear from your comment). In 2022 they’ll have in their favour a more acceptable leader, the post-Brexit blowback, new boundaries and the usual mid-term dissatisfaction with the government. 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Harold Wilson’s 1968 Tourist Promotion Act, with its generous subsidies to hotels to allow them to spread into residential areas, was ostensibly designed to create employment. The boroughs mentioned by Sherman have gentrified a lot since 1996, I believe, and become more trendy, especially with young people. https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/16234. Several factors combined to threaten Westminster with inner-city blight and Labour rule, which elsewhere in London has proved the certain harbinger of a seemingly irreversible downward spiral, as Hackney, Islington, Lambeth and Southwark demonstrate. In 2018 they underperformed, probably thanks to boundaries, Corbyn and Brexit. Despite a weekday population of hundreds of thousands, there are relatively few permanent residents here, mostly concentrated in the Barbican and Golden Lane Estate. Note: 'Swing To Lose' is the swing needed by the 2nd placed party against the 1st placed party to win the seat. 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Electoral Calculus currently has this as a Labour gain, although the boundary review is coming so it may be different at the next GE. The Local Government Boundary Commission published its final recommendations for Westminster City Council earlier this year. Church Street ward includes the Edgware Road Bakerloo line station. It’s very Middle Eastern, and fairly rundown. The six candidates standing for election in Cities of London and Westminster are: Jill McLachlan, Christian Peoples Alliance. The closest polling station is just a few steps from the centre where the count will get underway after the polls have closed. I lost a quite bit though backing turnout <66%. There was a big improvement in the Lib Dem vote share here, but as Chuka said, it was a mountain to climb. Worse still, Sixties legislation, which turned its back on Elizabeth I’s wisdom and forced local authorities to house all homeless from all over the British Isles and the four corners of the earth, created an endless siphon drawing in a welfariat: the modern version of that class for which Marx coined the term lumpenproletariat’ (criminalised degraded class). It was staged at the Playground Theatre in North Kensington in 2018, starring Jessica Martin. Voters in the Cities of London and Westminster seat have gone to the polls to cast their ballots in the General Election. Either login here, or register here (commenters who have previously registered on the Constituency Guide section of the site *should* be able to use their existing login). I lost on Leica E & Kensington (Lab). Politics: The City of London is the small medieval core of the city, originally bounded by the city walls (although it includes some wards outside the line of the old physical walls). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 2015 Result:Conservative: 19570 (54.1%)Labour: 9899 (27.4%)Lib Dem: 2521 (7%)Green: 1953 (5.4%)UKIP: 1894 (5.2%)Others: 348 (1%)MAJORITY: 9671 (26.7%). Mayfair probably also has a lot of absentee voters or those who can’t even register. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. It’s quite possible that Labour could win from third place in a similar seat. I will anaylise the result more when i have time. Westminster poll books (1796), London Metropolitan Archives: St James WR/PP/1796/3. Wifi went down yesterday lunchtime. The vast bulk of the electorate are in Westminster, covering some of the most insanely expensive (and solidly Conservative) residential real estate in the country in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair. The latter is marginal. Nickie Aiken said she felt "dazed" after a long campaign which saw her win the Cities of London and Westminster constituency. UKPollingReport is a site for non-partisan discussion of polls. In WN, the part nearer Maida Vale has bits of Little Venice ward but is largely covered by Church Street. I had Moray and Banff B; & Blackpool;. Comments - 570 Responses on “Cities of London & Westminster”, https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/16234, http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/25th-may-1996/12/shirley-champion-of-the-heart-of-britain. She won on 39.9%, with Chuka on 30.7% and Labour on 27.2%. Nicky Morgan was seen campaigning for Nickie. Note: Smaller parties may be omitted. Polls have closed. I’m not sure Anthony is still checking those posts. MS poll for Westminster (1796), Guildhall Library, London: St Anne, St Martin, St Paul and St Martin-le-Grand; Westminster poll books (1796), City of Westminster Archives Centre: St Margaret and St John, E/3081A. Expected to be a 4 week closure of non-essential shops and pubs from next week, but schools to remain open. Spooky. Nickie Aiken was quite lucky to win this seat – at least partly thanks to the split opposition, like the other inner London Lib Dem targets. Bryanston and Dorset Square and Marylebone High Street are replaced by Marylebone. Most won’t be voting labour. Main population centres: Mayfair, Marylebone, Pimlico, Belgravia. Thanks Matt. Heading north there are the major shopping areas of Knightsbridge, Regent and Oxford Streets, the West End theatreland and Soho, then eastwards there are the Inns of Court, the Royal Courts of Justice, the Old Bailey and then finally the City of London itself, with St Paul`s Cathedral, its skyscrapers, the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange.. JTAC has raised the UK’s terror threat from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely. Who is that Deepthroat character…he got it almost exactly right! The polling station at St Giles Cripplegate was mostly quiet when City Matters visited around midday, with residents arriving in dribs and drabs hoping to miss the after work crowds of voters racing to cast their ballots before the polls close at 10pm.