St Pancras and Somers Town (ward)

St Pancras and Somers Town is a ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. The ward was established for the May 2002 election.^[1] The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 13,818.^[2] In 2018, the ward had an electorate of 8,798.^[3] The Boundary Commission projects the electorate to rise to 9,332 by 2025.^[3]

St Pancras and Somers Town
Electoral ward for the Camden London Borough Council
St Pancras and Somers Town ward boundaries since 2022
Borough	Camden
County	Greater London
Population	12,512 (2021)[a]
Electorate	8,280 (2022)
Area	0.8510 square kilometres (0.3286 sq mi)
Current electoral ward
Created	2002
Number of members	3
Councillors	Samata Khatoon   Edmund Frondigoun   Shah Miah
ONS code	00AGGU (2002–2022)
GSS code	E05000143 (2002–2022) E05013669 (2022–present)

The ward underwent boundary changes for the 2022 election. Some of its area was transferred to the King's Cross ward, and some of the area of the Camden Town with Primrose Hill ward were transferred to St Pancras and Somers Town.^[4][5]

List of councillors

Term	Councillor	Party
2002–2022	Roger Robinson		Labour
2002–2006	Sybil Shine		Labour
2002–2010	Ruth Stewart		Labour
2006–2010	Nural Islam		Labour
2010–present	Samata Khatoon		Labour
2010–2015	Peter Brayshaw		Labour
2015–2022	Paul Tomlinson		Labour
2022–present	Edmund Frondigoun		Labour
2022–present	Shah Miah		Labour

Camden council elections since 2022

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Camden in 2022.

2022 election

The election took place on 5 May 2022.^[6]

2022 Camden London Borough Council election: St Pancras and Somers Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samata Khatoon	1,874	68.8
	Labour	Edmund Frondigoun	1,845	67.7
	Labour	Shah Miah	1,799	66.0
	Conservative	Alex Ellis	322	11.8
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Billington	299	11.0
	Conservative	Carole Ricketts	290	10.6
	Conservative	Axel Kaae	268	9.8
	Workers Party	Awal Miah	239	8.8
	Liberal Democrats	Stewart Jenkins	217	8.0
	Workers Party	M D Shah	202	7.4
	Workers Party	Neisha Wong	196	7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Pedersen	183	6.7
Turnout			2,724	32.9
	Labour win (new boundaries)
	Labour win (new boundaries)
	Labour win (new boundaries)

2002–2022 Camden council elections

St Pancras and Somers Town ward boundaries from 2002 to 2022

2018 election

The election took place on 3 May 2018.^[7]

2018 Camden London Borough Council election: St Pancras and Somers Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samata Khatoon	2,611	74.6	+10.4
	Labour	Roger Robinson	2,520	72.0	+5.4
	Labour	Paul Tomlinson	2,460	70.3	+4.4
	Green	Tina Swasey	341	9.7	−5.2
	Conservative	David Allen	295	8.4	−1.4
	Conservative	Doreen Bartlett	295	8.4	−0.9
	Green	Mark Scantlebury	264	7.5	−6.4
	Liberal Democrats	Kimberley Lauren Stansfield	251	7.2	+0.7
	Conservative	Robert Lingard	243	6.9	−0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Hoyle	230	6.6	+1.5
	Liberal Democrats	James Maurice Barker	192	5.5	+0.8
	UKIP	Oliver Dominic Ronald Butt	103	2.9	N/A
	UKIP	Christopher Cooke	84	2.4	N/A
	UKIP	Giles Game	82	2.3	N/A
Turnout				35.11
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2015 by-election

The by-election took place on 5 March 2015, following the death of Peter Brayshaw.^[7]

2015 St Pancras and Somers Town by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Tomlinson	1,481	72.8	+4.7
	Conservative	Shahin Ahmed	243	12.0	+2.0
	Green	Tina Swasey	213	10.5	−4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Zack Polanski	96	4.7	−1.9
Turnout				21.81	−16.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.4

2014 election

The election took place on 22 May 2014.^[8]

2014 Camden London Borough Council election: St Pancras and Somers Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Robinson	2,511
	Labour	Peter Brayshaw	2,488
	Labour	Samata Khatoon	2,423
	Green	Matty Mitford	562
	Green	James Widdowson	526
	Green	Koonal Kirit Shah	440
	Conservative	Rob Culligan	368
	Conservative	Brian Rice	351
	Conservative	Elliot Miller	295
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Hannan Tarofdar	245
	Liberal Democrats	Nana Oye Adjepong	192
	Liberal Democrats	Nicole Sykes	178
Turnout			10,617	38.6
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2010 election

The election on 6 May 2010 took place on the same day as the United Kingdom general election.^[9]

2010 Camden London Borough Council election: St Pancras and Somers Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Robinson	2,744	52.9	+7.8
	Labour	Peter Brayshaw	2,650	51.1	+10.4
	Labour	Samata Khatoon	2,614	50.4	+11.3
	Liberal Democrats	Abdus Shaheed	1,024	19.7	+5.7
	Liberal Democrats	Dave Hoefling	1,011	19.5	+8.8
	Liberal Democrats	Frederic Carver	927	17.9	+7.7
	Green	Natalie Bennett	738	14.2	−2.5
	Conservative	Adam Lester	721	13.9	−0.3
	Conservative	Brian Rice	701	13.5	−0.3
	Conservative	Patsy Prince	688	13.3	−0.3
	Green	Matty Mitford	467	9.0	−2.9
	Green	Cathryn Symons	422	8.1	+1.2
Turnout			5,190	57.2	+18.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2006 election

The election took place on 4 May 2006.^[10]

2006 Camden London Borough Council election: St Pancras and Somers Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Robinson	1,399	45.1	−7.9
	Labour	Nural Islam	1,264	40.7	−9.1
	Labour	Ruth Stewart	1,212	39.1	−8.6
	Respect	Nuruzzaman Hira	781	25.2	N/A
	Green	Beatrix Campbell	517	16.7	+4.6
	Conservative	Rohit Grover	440	14.2	−0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Finer	433	14.0	−6.9
	Conservative	Robert Ricketts	429	13.8	−0.5
	Conservative	Abdul Salam	422	13.6	−0.1
	Green	Richard Eden	369	11.9	+5.1
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Marquand	332	10.7	−8.8
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Waddington	317	10.2	−9.1
	Green	Matthew Hodgkinson-Barrett	213	6.9	+0.5
	Independent	Robert Austin	181	5.8	N/A
Turnout			8,309	39.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2002 election

The election took place on 2 May 2002.^[11]

2002 Camden London Borough Council election: St Pancras and Somers Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Robinson	960	53.0
	Labour	Sybil Shine	902	49.8
	Labour	Ruth Stewart	865	47.7
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Hanna	379	20.9
	Liberal Democrats	Fiona Palmer	353	19.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Myers	349	19.3
	Conservative	Simon Gray	263	14.5
	Conservative	Damian Keegan	259	14.3
	Conservative	James White	249	13.7
	Green	Una Sapietis	219	12.1
	Socialist Alliance	Pol O'Ceallaigh	211	11.6
	Green	Andrew Spring	124	6.8
	Green	Judith Stubbings	116	6.4
Turnout			5,249
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes

1. 2021 Census data reported for 2022 ward boundaries