Hornsey and Wood Green constituency results 2019: Labour's Catherine West holds seat
Voters in Hornsey and Wood Green 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.
Hornsey and Wood Green results:
2017 result: Catherine West, Labour
Dawn Barnes, Liberal Democrats, 15,884
Daniel Corrigan, The Brexit Party, 763
Jarelle Francis, Green, 2,192
Ed McGuiness, Conservative, 6,829
Helen Spiby-Vann, Christian Peoples Alliance, 211
Catherine West, Labour, 35,126
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.