Starmer wins in Holborn and St Pancras with reduced majority

Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, has kept his seat in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency but with a significant cut to his majority.

He won with 18,884 votes and will become prime minister after Labour gained over 200 new parliamentary seats across the UK — taking at least 412 seats, a long way past the 326 needed for a majority.

Pro-Palestinian activist, independent Andrew Feinstein, came in second place with 7,312 votes.

Starmer’s majority is down significantly from 22,766 in 2019 to 11,572 at this election.

David Stansell for the Green Party came in third place with 4,030 votes, ahead of the Conservatives Mehreen Malik with 2,776 votes.

Over the past weeks of the election campaign Starmer came under fire in Camden after he singled out Bangladesh in remarks about immigration. He was also criticised after he failed to turn up at a hustings in his own constituency, sending a deputy instead.

The Holborn and St Pancras constituency covers the south and middle of the London Borough of Camden and includes the whole of the Fitzrovia East neighbourhood area.

Election results for Holborn and St Pancras constituency

Brick, Nick the Incredible Flying – The Official Monster Raving Loony Party: 162
Clinton, Charlie – Liberal Democrats: 2,236
Feinstein, Andrew Josef – Independent: 7,312
Islam, Wais – Independent: 636
Kumar, Senthil – Independent: 40
Malik, Mehreen – The Conservative Party Candidate: 2,776
Poynton, John Edmund – UK Independence Party: 75
Roberts, David – Reform UK: 2,371
Scripps, Tom – Socialist Equality Party: 61
Smith, Bobby Elmo – Independent: 19
Stansell, David Robert – Green Party: 4,030
Starmer, Keir – Labour Party: 18,884

The constituency turnout was 54 percent.