Constituency Profile
The seat extends from Covent Garden in the heart of the West End of London up through trendy Camden Town to the affluent suburb of Highgate, a long, slender strip covering several very diverse parts of London.
Property prices in the seat are amongst the highest in London, but there are also high levels of rented and social housing, particularly in the middle of the seat around Camden Town and Kings Cross - Kings Cross, St. Pancras and Euston railway stations are all in the seat.
With so many contrasting parts, all three main parties have a solid voter base in the seat, though Labour has held on fairly comfortably against split opposition.
Read more about this topic: Holborn And St Pancras (UK Parliament Constituency)
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