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Kensington is a former constituency [n 1] in Greater London which first existed between 1974 and 1997 and was recreated in 2010. [n 2] It was replaced by the Kensington and Bayswater constituency, [2] first contested at the 2024 general election.
Kensington and Bayswater is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Created by the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, [2] it was first contested at the 2024 general election. It is represented by Joe Powell of the Labour Party. The constituency name comes from the Central London areas of Kensington and ...
Kensington and Chelsea was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 1997–2010. It was one of the safest Conservative seats in the United Kingdom, and since its creation in 1997 became a prestigious seat, with MP Alan Clark, the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo and the former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind all holding the seat for ...
On 25 November 2022, Powell was selected by Kensington Labour to be the parliamentary candidate in the 2024 general election. [6] Powell pledged to improve St. Mary's, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals; increase affordable housing and improve landlord regulations; enhance neighbourhood policing; address the cost of living crisis and climate change; seek justice for Grenfell; and tackle ...
Constituencies crossed borough boundaries between Bexley and Greenwich; Ealing, and Hammersmith and Fulham; Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and the City of London; Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames; Lambeth and Southwark; Newham and Tower Hamlets; and Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [3] For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's outgoing authorities, being the councils of the two metropolitan boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington. [4]
4.2 Parliament constituency. 5 References. 6 Further reading. ... The Metropolitan Borough of Kensington was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 ...
Kensington South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Kensington district of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .