Barnet and Camden is a territorialconstituency represented on theLondon Assembly by one assembly member (AM). The constituency was created in 2000 at the same time as the London Assembly and has elections every four years. It consists of the combined area of theLondon Borough of Barnet and theLondon Borough of Camden. The current assembly member isAnne Clarke of theLabour Party who was elected in 2021.
The constituency is a 'pie slice' pairing of the largeOuter London borough of Barnet with the smallerInner London borough of Camden. It stretches fromHolborn in the south to theGreater London boundary in the north. It includes parts ofcentral London, the inner city, suburban development and a semi-rural fringe.
The seat originally was a very marginal Conservative seat, being won by the party by less than 600 votes in 2000. The result was perhaps surprising as all of the area it covered, apart from the Chipping Barnet constituency, was represented by Labour MPs at the time.
It became reasonably safer in the 2004 and 2008 elections, but was lost to Labour on a swing of almost 12% in 2012.
The constituency returns one assembly member and is one of fourteen territorial constituencies in London. Represented from its creation in 2000 until the2012 election byBrian Coleman, aConservative from Barnet, formerLabour MPAndrew Dismore won it from him with a swing of nearly 12%. Dismore stepped down ahead of the2021 election and was replaced byAnne Clarke, aLabour councillor in Barnet.
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