Hackney North & Stoke Newington
Apr 9, 2020 16:22:36 GMT
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Post by John Chanin on Apr 9, 2020 16:22:36 GMT
This seat sits to the west of the river Lea and the Walthamstow marshes, with Tottenham to the north, and Highbury to the west. It is best known for the large population of Haredi Jews who amount to a quarter of the population in the 4 northern wards, and provide much of the Conservative vote in the seat, including the only variety on Hackney Council, which is otherwise solidly Labour. The private housing here is mostly Victorian, but there are extensive council estates, including the giant former LCC Woodberry Down estate on the northern boundary which is currently being redeveloped as a mixed tenure development. The seat has one of the highest percentages of social housing tenants in the country, and is one of a handful of seats, almost all in London, where owner-occupiers form less than a third of households. However this is not to assume that it is solidly working class. Like other seats in this corner of London there are a lot of professional and managerial households, many of whom rent privately. There are few households in intermediate occupations, and educational qualifications are high in what is a very young seat. While socially polarized it is also very mixed on the ground. Much of the Victorian housing is very desirable and very expensive.
In the north-west the seat includes part of Finsbury Park, including a traditional red light district. South of the Woodberry Down estate are two large reservoirs surrounded by quite up market housing. There is a large park - Clissold Park - north of Stoke Newington High Street with its bars and restaurants, and east of here the large and peaceful Abney Park cemetery. Alongside the Lea there is a good deal of new housing development, all private. To the south of the seat is another extensive open space, Hackney Downs. The former run down tower block Nightingale Estate to its north has been demolished and redeveloped. It was best known for its pirate radio stations. At its south-west corner the seat includes Dalston, with its famous Ridley Road street market. The seat is majority white, and has a low asian population for inner London, concentrated in the east of the seat. There is a large black population, fairly evenly spread, and evenly divided between those of African and Caribbean descent. There is also a large Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot population in the west of the seat. All in all a typical very cosmopolitan London mix. Politically this makes for a very safe Labour seat. Current MP is Diane Abbott, former leadership candidate and shadow Home Secretary, first elected in 1987 when she was the first black female MP. Worth noting is the substantial and long standing Green vote here, often linked with socially liberal inner city seats where there is little other opposition to Labour.
Like all the other seats in this part of London this one is significantly oversized. The Boundary Commission is therefore proposing to add the Kings Park ward alongside the Lea to reduce the electorate in Hackney South, and to move three wards out. The Brownswood ward in Finsbury Park and neighbouring Woodberry Down are to move to Tottenham, and Dalston in the centre of the borough to Hackney South. This will remove some of the more distinctive features of the seat (although not the Haredi community), but will not alter its safe Labour status.
Census data: owner-occupied 29% (564/573 in England & Wales), private rented 32% (19th), social rented 37% (12th).
:White 58%, Black 20%, Sth Asian 7%, Mixed 6%, Other 9%
: Managerial & professional 48% (58th), Routine & Semi-routine 24% (427th)
: Degree 42% (33rd), Minimal qualifications 29% (489th)
: Students 8% (90th), Over 65: 7% (569th)
In the north-west the seat includes part of Finsbury Park, including a traditional red light district. South of the Woodberry Down estate are two large reservoirs surrounded by quite up market housing. There is a large park - Clissold Park - north of Stoke Newington High Street with its bars and restaurants, and east of here the large and peaceful Abney Park cemetery. Alongside the Lea there is a good deal of new housing development, all private. To the south of the seat is another extensive open space, Hackney Downs. The former run down tower block Nightingale Estate to its north has been demolished and redeveloped. It was best known for its pirate radio stations. At its south-west corner the seat includes Dalston, with its famous Ridley Road street market. The seat is majority white, and has a low asian population for inner London, concentrated in the east of the seat. There is a large black population, fairly evenly spread, and evenly divided between those of African and Caribbean descent. There is also a large Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot population in the west of the seat. All in all a typical very cosmopolitan London mix. Politically this makes for a very safe Labour seat. Current MP is Diane Abbott, former leadership candidate and shadow Home Secretary, first elected in 1987 when she was the first black female MP. Worth noting is the substantial and long standing Green vote here, often linked with socially liberal inner city seats where there is little other opposition to Labour.
Like all the other seats in this part of London this one is significantly oversized. The Boundary Commission is therefore proposing to add the Kings Park ward alongside the Lea to reduce the electorate in Hackney South, and to move three wards out. The Brownswood ward in Finsbury Park and neighbouring Woodberry Down are to move to Tottenham, and Dalston in the centre of the borough to Hackney South. This will remove some of the more distinctive features of the seat (although not the Haredi community), but will not alter its safe Labour status.
Census data: owner-occupied 29% (564/573 in England & Wales), private rented 32% (19th), social rented 37% (12th).
:White 58%, Black 20%, Sth Asian 7%, Mixed 6%, Other 9%
: Managerial & professional 48% (58th), Routine & Semi-routine 24% (427th)
: Degree 42% (33rd), Minimal qualifications 29% (489th)
: Students 8% (90th), Over 65: 7% (569th)
2010 | % | 2015 | % | 2017 | % | 2019 | % | |
Labour | 25,553 | 55.0% | 31,357 | 62.9% | 42,265 | 75.1% | 39,972 | 70.3% |
Conservative | 6,759 | 14.5% | 7,341 | 14.7% | 7,126 | 12.7% | 6,784 | 11.9% |
Liberal Democrat | 11,092 | 23.9% | 2,492 | 5.0% | 3,817 | 6.8% | 4,283 | 7.5% |
UKIP/Brexit | 1,085 | 2.2% | 609 | 1.1% | ||||
Green | 2,133 | 4.6% | 7,281 | 14.6% | 2,606 | 4.6% | 4,989 | 8.8% |
Others | 922 | 2.0% | 327 | 0.7% | 484 | 0.9% | 227 | 0.4% |
Majority | 14,461 | 31.1% | 24,016 | 48.1% | 35,139 | 62.4% | 33,188 | 58.4% |
