Hackney North and Stoke Newington
2010 Results:
Conservative: 6759 (14.54%)
Labour: 25553 (54.97%)
Liberal Democrat: 11092 (23.86%)
Green: 2133 (4.59%)
Christian: 299 (0.64%)
Monster Raving Loony: 182 (0.39%)
Independent: 157 (0.34%)
Others: 313 (0.67%)
Majority: 14461 (31.11%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 14761 (48.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 7041 (23.2%)
Conservative: 4360 (14.3%)
Other: 4227 (14.0%)
Majority: 7720 (25.4%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 4218 (14.4%)
Labour: 14268 (48.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 6841 (23.3%)
Green: 2907 (9.9%)
Other: 1146 (3.9%)
Majority: 7427 (25.3%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 4430 (15%)
Labour: 18081 (61%)
Liberal Democrat: 4170 (14.1%)
Green: 2184 (7.4%)
Other: 756 (2.6%)
Majority: 13651 (46.1%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 5483 (16.7%)
Labour: 21110 (64.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 3806 (11.6%)
Referendum: 544 (1.7%)
Other: 1909 (5.8%)
Majority: 15627 (47.6%)
Boundary changes: Despite their small size, the Hackney seats undergo only minor changes to bring them into line with ward boundaries.
Profile: A highly cosmopolitian and multi ethnic seat covering Stoke Newington, Clapton and Hackney Downs. This seat has one of the ten highest proportions of black residents, a significant Muslim population and also one of the highest Jewish populations because of the densely packed ultra-orthodox Hassidic Jewish community around Stamford Hill, one of the pockets of strength of the Conservative party in the seat, at least at local elections. Stamford Hill aside this is a Labour seat, there are the beginnings of gentrification and private house prices are rocketing, but this is mostly a seat of council and social housing, of estates, tower blocks, deprivation, high crime and drug problems. Unsurprisingly it is a solid Labour seat, the small electorate and low turnout mean Diane Abbott`s seven and a half thousand majority is actually over 25 percent. There is a relatively strong showing by the Greens here, who took almost 10% of the vote, their third highest in the country in 2005.
Current MP: Diane Abbott(Labour) born 1953, Paddington to a Jamacian family. Educated at Harrow County Grammar School and Cambridge University. Former civil servant, TV-AM television reporter and Lambeth council press officer. First elected as MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987, one of the first black MPs elected in almost 70 years. She is a left winger and a regular rebel against the Labour whip, opposing Iraq, foundation hospitals, top-up fees and 90 day detention – she attracted criticism from other left wing MPs though for her decision to send her son to a private school. A seasoned media performer, she has branched out into television and regularly appears on the BBC`s week politics show This Week in a double act with Michael Portillo (more information at They work for you)
Darren Caplan (Conservative) Educated at Birmingham University. Former central office staffer, now a Public affairs director. Married to Conservative commentator and author Jo-Anne Nadler.Diane Abbott(Labour) born 1953, Paddington to a Jamacian family. Educated at Harrow County Grammar School and Cambridge University. Former civil servant, TV-AM television reporter and Lambeth council press officer. First elected as MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987, one of the first black MPs elected in almost 70 years. She is a left winger and a regular rebel against the Labour whip, opposing Iraq, foundation hospitals, top-up fees and 90 day detention – she attracted criticism from other left wing MPs though for her decision to send her son to a private school. A seasoned media performer, she has branched out into television and regularly appears on the BBC`s week politics show This Week in a double act with Michael Portillo (more information at They work for you)
Keith Angus (Liberal Democrat) Educated at the Open University. Project manager for the Royal Bank of Canada.
Matt Sellwood (Green) Former Oxford councillor.
Maxine Hargreaves (Christian Party) Knigel Knapp (Official Monster Raving Loony) Jack Pope-de-Locksley (Magna Carta)Suzanne Moore (Independent)Paul Shaer (Independent)Alessandra Williams (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 106555
Male: 47.9%
Female: 52.1%
Under 18: 26.9%
Over 60: 11.7%
Born outside UK: 34.3%
White: 61%
Black: 21.8%
Asian: 10.3%
Mixed: 4%
Other: 2.9%
Christian: 39.8%
Hindu: 0.9%
Jewish: 9%
Muslim: 14.5%
Sikh: 1.1%
Full time students: 8.2%
Graduates 16-74: 35.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 27.4%
Owner-Occupied: 36.6%
Social Housing: 43.3% (Council: 25.3%, Housing Ass.: 18.1%)
Privately Rented: 17.5%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 10.4%
When Ernie Roberts was elected here in 1979 aged 67 he must have been one of the ‘oldest’ freshman MP’s.He was Labour PPC candidate for Stockport back in 1955.
Yes he may have been the oldest. Being so advanced in years at the start of his parliamentary career was always going to increase the chances of a challenge from the new multicultural left-wing in Hackney which is exactly what happened.
Diane Abbott has gone very quiet since losing the Labour leadership election and becoming a shadow minister. This Week isn’t anywhere near as good without her.
I can’t understand why she gave up her media profile to become an invisible junior shadow minister for paperclips. It was a mistake.
The Boundary Commission have proposed a new Hackney North constituency which will include the Seven Sisters ward currently in the Tottenham constituency. This new constituency had a December 2010 electorate of 80,473 which is the absolute maximum allowable under the new rules.
Diane Abbot being elected for the first time in 1987:
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Diane has been making some more ‘race related’ remarks, this time blaming taxi drivers in London for not stopping for Black people. If Ed has any sense he should get rd of this lady. After 25 years as an MP she should know better than make remarks like this.
As a fairly right wing Conservative
who hates political correctness
and the malign social effects and self defeating victim culture it creates,
I have to come to Diane Abbot’s defence.
I don’t want to get into a situation where elected politicians are thwarted down for a silly mistake on Twitter.
Two wrongs don’t……
She shouldn’t resign.
Aidan Burley shouldn’t resign.
Jeremy Clarkson shouldn’t resign.
The trouble is that she has form on such issues and frequently says silly comments re race. Now if she said this comment out of isolation them yes I would agree with Joe James, but the fact is that she constantly says such comments and I think the comments re taxi drivers is a step too far and she ought to resign. The more worrying issue from Labour’s POV is the weak leadership of Ed Miliband in dealing with this matter more swiftly. If a white person made such racial comments then I guarantee Diane Abbott (and Ed Miliband) would be the first to demand a resignation with the left leaning media having kittens. Just because a Labour politician does or says something bad, then as Shaun alluded to, then that makes everything OK and the matter is closed down, but if a non Labour politician says such a thing then it’s such a big deal.
Joseph, I do agree with you that all those things would happen if the boot was on the other foot,
but I would rather rise above it.
It’s really for the Labour Party to decide whether or not she is out of tune with collective responsibility as a whole to be on the front bench.
The problem is Abbott herself would be among the first to scream for resignation and worse if someone else were to cross the line she just has. On that basis alone she should resign.