Kensington (UK Parliament Constituency)
Kensington is a parliamentary constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in west London, comprising the northern and central parts of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around Kensington. It was first created for the February 1974 general election and abolished for the 1997 general election when it was partly replaced by the new constituencies of Kensington and Chelsea and Regent's Park and Kensington North.
The constituency was re-created by the Boundary Commission for England at the 2010 general election from parts of the aforementioned constituencies. Following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies in North London, the Boundary Commission recreated the Kensington seat using the following electoral wards:
- Abingdon, Brompton, Campden, Colville, Courtfield, Earls Court, Golborne, Holland, Norland, Notting Barns, Pembridge, Queen's Gate, and St Charles
The remaining electoral wards of Cremorne, Hans Town, Redcliffe, Royal Hospital, and Stanley are used in the cross-borough creation of Chelsea and Fulham.
Read more about Kensington (UK Parliament Constituency): Constituency Profile, Members of Parliament, Election Results
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“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the harbor, with their balls piled pyramid-wise between them,—there are said to be in all about one hundred and eighty guns mounted at Quebec,—all which were faithfully kept dusted by officials, in accordance with the motto, “In time of peace prepare for war”; but I saw no preparations for peace: she was plainly an uninvited guest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)