Holborn & St Pancras constituency results 2019: Kier Starmer wins for Labour
Voters in Holborn and St Pancras have gone to the polls to cast their ballots in the General Election.
Boris Johnson called the election to end the Brexit deadlock, the first December election since 1923.
MPs passed legislation approving the poll in October by a decisive margin of 438 votes to 20, seeing Britain’s political parties leap into action for an impassioned five-week campaign period.
The PM said the election beckoned the country to "come together to get Brexit done", while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded it a “once-in-a-generation chance to transform" the nation.
Holborn & St Pancras results:
2017 result: Kier Starmer, Labour
Mohammad Bhatti, UKIP, 138
Hector Birchwood, The Brexit Party, 1,032
Kirsten De Keyser, Green, 2,746
Alexandra Hayward, Conservative, 8,878
Matthew Kirk, Liberal Democrat, 7,314
Kier Starmer, Labour, 36,641
To secure a majority and form a government, a party needs to win more than half the seats in the House of Commons - 326. The party that comes second sits on the Commons’ opposition benches, with its leader named ‘leader of the opposition’.
In 2017 the result was a hung parliament, where no single party commands a majority in Parliament. In this situation, several parties can join forces to become a ‘coalition government’, as in 2010 with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, or a single party can form a minority government.
You can read the Evening Standard’s list of candidates standing in every London constituency for the 2019 election here.