General Election 2024 London seats: Who will be my MP in...Hornsey and Friern Barnet?

Nicholas Cecil
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Labour’s Catherine West vying with Liberal Democrat Dawn Barnes to be the next MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet (Candidates)
Labour’s Catherine West vying with Liberal Democrat Dawn Barnes to be the next MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet (Candidates)
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Millions of voters across London will go the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:

HORNSEY AND FRIERN BARNET

Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):

Dawn Barnes - Liberal Democrats

Naz Panju - Conservatives

Navdeep Singh - Reform UK

Fabio Vollono - Green Party

Catherine West - Labour Party

Summary:

This largely suburban new constituency takes in most of the former seat of Hornsey and Wood Green which swapped colours over the years.

Hornsey and Wood Green was created in 1983 when it was won by the Tories who held onto it in 1987.

Labour gained it in 1992 and retained it in 1997 and 2001.

But then after the backlash against the Tony Blair government over the Iraq War the constituency, which is more internationalist and socially liberal than many others in the capital and beyond, went to the Lib Dems in 2005.

They held it until 2015 when there was the backlash against them after Nick Clegg took them into coalition with the Tories.

Labour’s Catherine West, who won the seat in 2015, held it in 2019 with a majority of 19,242.

Area: This constituency includes seven wards in Haringey including Alexandra Park, Crouch End, Fortis Green, Harringay, Hornsey, Muswell Hill and Stroud Green, and Friern Barnet in Barnet.

I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check

Map of the new constituency of Hornsey and Friern Barnet (Google Maps)
Map of the new constituency of Hornsey and Friern Barnet (Google Maps)

Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Despite significant boundary changes, the political make-up of this constituency has hardly changed, having been won by Labour in 2019 with around 57 per cent of the vote, with the Lib Dems on some 26 per cent, and Tories nearly 12 per cent.

YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour hold

Evening Standard view: The boundary change dice has definitely been rolled in this constituency but it’s still looking very Red.

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