Editing Tulse Hill (section)

== Politics ==
Tulse Hill is represented on the [[Lambeth London Borough Council]] by councillors for the Brixton Rush Common, St Martin's, and West Dulwich wards.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Borough, neighbourhoods and wards {{!}} Lambeth Council |url=https://beta.lambeth.gov.uk/your-community/facts-figures/borough-neighbourhoods-wards |access-date=2022-02-04 |website=beta.lambeth.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> All three wards are held by the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] although the ward now known as West Dulwich was historically a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] ward until the [[2014 Lambeth London Borough Council election]]. Tulse Hill is represented in the London Assembly by [[Marina Ahmad]] and in Westminster by [[Helen Hayes (politician)|Helen Hayes]] and [[Bell Ribeiro-Addy]].

In March 2022 Lambeth Council initiated a consultation with residents as to renaming the area, to avoid a possible association with [[Henry Tulse (Lord Mayor)|Henry Tulse]] who was once a board member of the [[Royal African Company]],  a slave-trading concern in the seventeenth century.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shah |first1=Furvah |title=London suburb Tulse Hill could be renamed due to its slavery links |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tulse-hill-rename-slavery-racism-b2042538.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=24 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>