Hampstead and Highgate is a parliamentary constituency covering the northern half of the London Borough of Camden, and a small part of the London Borough of Haringey. It includes the villages of Hampstead and Highgate. It has been represented by Tulip Siddiq of the Labour Party since 2024.
It was abolished in the 2010 general election, with the majority forming the new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn, and part going into the Holborn and St Pancras seat.
Further to the completion of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election.
Hampstead and Highgate is a mostly suburban constituency in Greater London, located around north-west of the centre of London. It covers the neighbourhoods of Hampstead, Highgate, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage and parts of Kilburn. Like much of suburban London, the area grew rapidly in population with the arrival of rail transport in the late 19th century. Hampstead is known for being home to many wealthy celebrities and politicians, whilst Kilburn has high levels of deprivation. The average house price in the constituency is over ã1.2 million, double the London average and more than four times the national average.
In general, residents of the constituency are young and highly-educated. They are unlikely to be homeowners but have very high rates of income and professional employment. White people made up 66% of the population at the 2021 census, a higher proportion than the rest of London. White people of non-British origin were 27%, Asians were 14% and Black people were 7%. At the local borough council level, the west of the constituency around Kilburn and Swiss Cottage is represented by the Labour Party, whilst the wealthier areas of Hampstead and Highgate elected Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Voters in the constituency overwhelmingly supported remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum; an estimated 76% voted to remain, making Hampstead and Highgate one of the top 15 most remain-supporing constituencies out of 650 nationwide.
Some areas here were amongst the wealthiest in the UK, but the seat always had an intellectual, artistic middle-class vote associated with the intelligentsia (see main page on Hampstead). It also contained Kilburn, with its large Irish community. The Labour incumbent in Hampstead and Highgate at the time of abolition, Glenda Jackson, retained the new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn in 2010 with a majority of just 42.
1983âÂÂ1997: The London Borough of Camden wards of Adelaide, Belsize, Fitzjohns, Fortune Green, Frognal, Hampstead Town, Highgate, Kilburn, Priory, South End, Swiss Cottage, and West End.
1997âÂÂ2010: The London Borough of Camden wards of Adelaide, Belsize, Fitzjohns, Fortune Green, Frognal, Gospel Oak, Hampstead Town, Highgate, Kilburn, Priory, South End, Swiss Cottage, and West End.
In 2002, a Local Government Boundary Commission for England review abolished the Adelaide, Priory, South End and West End wards, whilst it combined Frognal and Fitzjohns into one ward. For the 2005 general election, the electoral wards used in this constituency were Belsize, Camden Town with Primrose Hill (part), Fortune Green, Frognal and Fitzjohns, Gospel Oak (part), Hampstead Town, Haverstock (part), Highgate (part), Kilburn, Swiss Cottage and West Hampstead.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England created a new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn by excluding Highgate ward (which became part of Holborn & St Pancras) and including three wards from the neighbouring borough of Brent. Hampstead and Kilburn largely replaced Hampstead and Highgate for the 2010 general election.
2024âÂÂpresent: The London Borough of Camden wards of Belsize, Fortune Green, Frognal, Gospel Oak, Hampstead Town, Highgate, Kilburn, Primrose Hill (part); South Hampstead, and West Hampstead, and the London Borough of Haringey ward of Highgate.