Hackney Downs (ward)

Hackney Downs is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Hackney, corresponding roughly to the Hackney Downs area of London, UK and forms part of the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency. It was created for the May, 2002 local election. There was previously a Downs ward from 1965 to 1978. The ward returns three councillors every four years to Hackney Borough Council.

Hackney Downs
Electoral ward for the Hackney London Borough Council
Hackney Downs boundaries since 2014
Borough	Hackney
County	Greater London
Population	12,998 (2021)
Electorate	9,469 (2022)
Area	1.019 square kilometres (0.393 sq mi)
Current electoral ward
Created	2002
Number of members	3
Councillors	Michael Desmond   Sem Moema   Alastair Binnie-Lubbock
ONS code	00AMGH (2002–2014)
GSS code	E05000238 (2002–2014) E05009373 (2014–present)

Hackney council elections since 2014

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Hackney in 2014.

2022 election

The election took place on 5 May 2022.^[1]

2022 Hackney London Borough Council election: Hackney Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Desmond	1,823	51.3
	Labour	Sem Moema	1,748	49.2
	Green	Alastair Binnie-Lubbock	1,667	46.9
	Labour	Anna-Joy Rickard	1,636	46.1
	Green	Bettina Maidment	1,573	44.3
	Green	Charlie Norman	1,316	37.0
	Conservative	Agnieszka Cuellar-Bridy	194	5.5
	Liberal Democrats	Erika Merguigi	184	5.2
	Conservative	Joanna Wojciechowska	161	4.5
	Conservative	Nikodem Mikolajewski	155	4.4
	Ind. Network	Ruth Parkinson	101	2.8
	TUSC	Clare Doyle	99	2.8
Turnout				40.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Green gain from Labour		Swing

2018 election

The election took place on 3 May 2018.^[2]

2018 Hackney London Borough Council election: Hackney Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Desmond	2,076	56.7	−0.6
	Labour	Anna-Joy Rickard	1,852	50.6	−6.3
	Labour	Sem Moema	1,687	46.1	−8.6
	Green	Alastair Binnie-Lubbock	1,597	43.6	+20.8
	Green	Sheila Menon	1,134	31.0	+8.4
	Green	Sally Zlotowitz	1,074	29.3	+9.8
	Conservative	Mohammed Lunat	229	6.3	+0.5
	Conservative	Yasmin Lunat	214	5.8	±0.0
	Conservative	Agnieszka Rolkiewicz	122	3.3	−0.7
Majority
Turnout				39.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2016 by-election

The by-election took place on 5 May 2016.

2016 Hackney Downs by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sem Moema	2,614	59.8	−0.4
	Green	Alastair Binnie-Lubbock	1,067	24.4	+0.4
	Conservative	Nicola Benjamin	350	8.0	+1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Sadiq	338	7.7	−2.0
Majority			1,547
Turnout			4,369	58%
	Labour hold		Swing

2014 election

The election took place on 22 May 2014.^[3]

2014 Hackney London Borough Council election: Hackney Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Desmond	2,115	57.3
	Labour	Anna-Joy Rickard	2,100	56.9
	Labour	Rick Muir	2,020	54.7
	Green	Alexander Brown	843	22.8
	Green	Stuart Coggins	834	22.6
	Green	Andrew Guise	719	19.5
	Liberal Democrats	Teena Lashmore	342	9.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Sadiq	293	7.9
	Liberal Democrats	Garry Malcolm	249	6.7
	Conservative	Amy Gray	214	5.8
	Conservative	Duncan Gray	214	5.8
	Conservative	Izabel Leosz	149	4.0
Majority
Turnout			3,691	39.8
	Labour win (new boundaries)
	Labour win (new boundaries)
	Labour win (new boundaries)

2002–2014 Hackney council elections

2010 election

The election on 6 May 2010 took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election.^[4]

2010 Hackney London Borough Council election: Hackney Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Desmond	2,359	50.4
	Labour	Alex Russell	1,836
	Labour	Rick Muir	1,783
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Horowitz	982	21.0
	Liberal Democrats	Mozes Eckstein	908
	Green	Stefan Carlberg	906	19.4
	Liberal Democrats	Gita Jacobson	868
	Green	Kate McKeevor	818
	Green	Elise Pinder	709
	Conservative	Olive Rice	434	9.3
	Conservative	Pamela Sills	359
	Conservative	Mark Westcott	344
Turnout			4,979	58
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2006 election

The election took place on 4 May 2006.^[5]

2006 Hackney London Borough Council election: Hackney Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Desmond	1,054	46.3
	Labour	Faizullah Khan	1,048
	Labour	Sem Moema	830
	Green	Michael Jefford	668	29.3
	Green	Joy MacKeith	661
	Liberal Democrats	Chaim Hochhauser	321	14.1
	Liberal Democrats	Nota Kreiman	290
	Liberal Democrats	Jeffrey Shenker	279
	Conservative	Peter Fazzani	234	10.3
	Conservative	Yvonne Kleinberg	185
	Conservative	Vera Landau	178
Turnout				30.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2002 election

The election took place on 2 May 2002.^[6]

2002 Hackney London Borough Council election: Hackney Downs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jessica Crowe	1,152
	Labour	Michael Desmond	1,011
	Labour	Faizullah Khan	972
	Green	Christopher Dixon	685
	Socialist Alliance	Helen Matcham	356
	Conservative	Lilian Lonsdale	207
	Conservative	Peter Lonsdale	201
	Conservative	Halide Mehmet	201
	CPA	Glorya Sealy	98
Majority
Turnout
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Demography

In 2001, Hackney Downs ward had a total population of 10,294. This compares with the average ward population within the borough of 10,674.^[7] At the 2011 Census, the population of the ward had increased to 12,921.^[8]