Politics Of Hackney
The London Borough of Hackney is a Labour Party governed inner London borough. The fifty-seven seats representing the nineteen wards of the Borough are divided between the Labour Party with fifty; the Conservative Party with four, and Liberal Democrats three.
The Borough consists of two parliamentary constituencies: Hackney North and Stoke Newington (represented by Diane Abbott) and Hackney South and Shoreditch (represented by Meg Hillier; both Labour Party Members of Parliament). The Borough is a constituent part of the North East London Assembly seat with the London Borough of Islington and London Borough of Waltham Forest currently held by Jennette Arnold AM. The Borough also makes up a constituent part of the London constituency of the European Parliament.
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