Editing Kentish Town (section)

== Political representation ==
Kentish Town is part of the [[Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency)|Holborn and St Pancras]] seat which is held by [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] Prime Minister [[Keir Starmer]] as of March 2024. Kentish Town was an early base for the [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]] and the increasingly [[middle class]] population has returned large votes for the [[Green Party (UK)|Green]]s and [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]]s. In [[2006 United Kingdom local elections|May 2006]] the Liberal Democrats won two of the three Council seats in Kentish Town, strengthening this hold by taking the final seat in a by-election in November of the same year. In the Council elections in May 2010, Labour regained all three Council seats.

In May 2022, the ward of [[Kentish Town North (ward)|Kentish Town North]] elected two Labour Councillors Sylvia McNamara and James Slater. [[Kentish Town South (ward)|Kentish Town South]] reelected Labour Councillors [[Georgia Gould (politician)|Georgia Gould]], Meric Apac, and [[Jenny Headlam-Wells]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Camden Council elections: Full ward by ward results |url=https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/camden-council-elections-full-ward-by-ward-results |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=Camden New Journal |language=en-gb}}</ref>