UK Explained

Holborn and St Pancras

Represented in Parliament by Sagal Abdi-Wali (Labour). Here is who won the last general election here, and a few numbers about the area.

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How Holborn and St Pancras compares

Every dot is one of the 632 areas that have figures. The large red dot is this area; green dots are areas like it.

TYPICAL FULL-TIME PAY, A WEEK

This area is 96 of 632 for pay, counting from the highest.

UK £767This area £886£400£1,100
PEOPLE CLAIMING UNEMPLOYMENT-RELATED BENEFITS

Higher than 539 areas and lower than 110.

UK 3.9%This area 5.1%0.0%12.0%

Areas like this one

The three areas with the closest pay and claimant rate. This says nothing about politics or geography.

AreaWeekly payClaimants
Holborn and St Pancras£8865.1%
Chingford and Woodford Green£9004.9%
Harrow West£8765.5%
Romford£8974.6%
United Kingdom£7673.9%

Printable one-page briefing

Who lives in Holborn and St Pancras

From the 2021 Census, next to the figure for England and Wales as a whole. Census day was 21 March 2021, so some things will have changed.

About the areaThis areaEngland and WalesCompared
Number of people106,01959,597,740 in total
Aged under 1614%18%4 points lower
Aged 65 and over11%19%8 points lower
Adults with a degree or higher51%34%17 points higher
Households that own their home24%62%38 points lower
Households renting from a council or housing association43%17%26 points higher
Households renting privately32%20%12 points higher

Source: ONS, Census 2021 (England and Wales), via the UK Data Service statistics portal. Fetched 2026-10-09. These describe who lives here. They do not explain how anyone votes.

WINNER, 2026
Abdi-Wali, Sagal

Labour

MAJORITY
3,364

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
39%

of people who could vote did

Abdi-Wali, Sagal won with 45% of the votes, and Polanski, Zack (Green Party) came second with 33%. The seat has a different MP now: Sagal Abdi-Wali (Labour).

Votes for each party

Labour45% · 12,292
Green Party33% · 8,928
Conservative7% · 1,922
Reform UK6% · 1,612
Liberal Democrat3% · 924
Restore Britain3% · 692
Everyone else3% · 841
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Abdi-Wali, SagalLabour12,29245.2%
Polanski, ZackGreen Party8,92832.8%
Cameron, EwanConservative1,9227.1%
Newman, PeterReform UK1,6125.9%
Stillman, Patrick ThomasLiberal Democrat9243.4%
Johnson, Tyler KurtisRestore Britain6922.5%
Galloway, GeorgeWorkers Party of Britain3141.2%
Kapoor, Briony Anne LonbayRejoin EU2360.9%
Brunch, BarmyOfficial Monster Raving Loony Party870.3%
Spiby-Vann, HelenChristian Peoples Alliance630.2%
Walker, BenUK Independence Party510.2%
Fischer, ClareClimate Party510.2%
Pipaliya, KetankumarUK Voice230.1%
Silberman, JonathanCommunist League Election Campaign90.0%
Darwood, TomIndependent70.0%

2026-10-08 Holborn and St Pancras By-election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£886 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
5.1%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

Updated 9 Oct 2026