Queensbridge (ward)

Queensbridge
Electoral ward
Coordinates: 51°32′20″N 0°03′50″W / 51.539°N 0.064°W / 51.539; -0.064Coordinates: 51°32′20″N 0°03′50″W / 51.539°N 0.064°W / 51.539; -0.064
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	London
County	Greater London
London borough	Hackney
Created	1 April 1965
Abolished	May 2014
Government
• Body	Hackney London Borough Council
ONS code	00AMGQ
GSS code	E05000245

Queensbridge was a ward in the London Borough of Hackney, forming part of the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency.

The ward, renamed London Fields as of the 2014 local elections, returns three councillors to Borough Council, with an election every four years. At the election on 6 May 2010, Emma Plouviez, Tom Price, and Patrick Vernon, all Labour Party candidates, were returned. Turnout was 58%; with 5,360 votes cast.^[1]

In 2001, Queensbridge ward had a total population of 10,165. This compares with the average ward population within the borough of 10,674.^[2] The population at the 2011 Census was 13,670.^[3]

The ward is part of the neighbourhood of Shoreditch, and includes London Fields and Broadway Market.^[4]

References

↑ 2010 election results - Queensbridge Archived May 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. (LB Hackney) accessed 11 May 2010
↑ LB Hackney Borough Profile "1.5 Population density", and table 1.10 "Population by ward, 2001" pp. 20; (LB Hackney, 2006) accessed 6 October 2009
↑ "Hackney Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
↑ A Profile of Queensbridge Ward Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., Hackney Council. Retrieved 2011-10-12.

External links

Wards of Hackney

April 1965 – May 1978	Brownswood Chatham Clissold Dalston De Beauvoir Defoe Downs Haggerston Kingsmead Leabridge Moorfields New River Northfield Northwold Queensbridge Rectory Springfield Victoria Wenlock Wick

May 1978 – May 2002	Brownswood Chatham Clissold Dalston De Beauvoir Eastdown Haggerston Homerton Kings Park Leabridge Moorfields New River North Defoe Northfield Northwold Queensbridge Rectory South Defoe Springfield Victoria Wenlock Westdown Wick

May 2002 – May 2014	Brownswood Cazenove Chatham Clissold Dalston De Beauvoir Hackney Central Hackney Downs Haggerston Hoxton King's Park Leabridge Lordship New River Queensbridge Springfield Stoke Newington Central Victoria Wick

From May 2014	Brownswood Cazenove Clissold Dalston De Beauvoir Hackney Central Hackney Downs Hackney Wick Haggerston Homerton Hoxton East and Shoreditch Hoxton West King's Park Lea Bridge London Fields Shacklewell Springfield Stamford Hill West Stoke Newington Victoria Woodberry Down

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