Holborn & St Pancras
Labour hold

Frank Dobson may not be Mayor of London, having lost out to Ken Livingstone, but he is not forgotten in his own seat in the southern part of Camden London Borough, which stretches from Chalk Farm and Primrose Hill through Kentish Town and Camden Town and Somers Town into the heart of London at Holborn itself and Bloomsbury. This is far from chiefly working class residentially, but those enclaves of wealth and prosperity tend to be occupied by liberally minded voters, and this counts as a very safe Labour seat as long as Dobson wishes to continue in the Commons.

Frank Dobson, one of Blair's discarded Cabinet Ministers, and MP here since 1979, is a superficially cuddly, pugnacious, dirty-joke-telling Yorkshireman, and bearded Buster-Merryweather lookalike, who for three years as Health Secretary said the NHS was getting better until forced by Blair to quit in order to stand against Livingstone for Mayor of London and get slaughtered. Understandably now fallen into silence as he contemplates the likely prospect of the red benches in another place, he was born 1940, educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School, York and LSE and worked as a civil servant for the CEGB, Electricity Council and Local Government Ombudsman, and ran Camden Council for a while in the 1970s.

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   Thriving Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas 0.03% 14.99% 0.19 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities 0.00% 2.13% 0.05 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas 1.01% 2.49% 40.55 Expanding Affluent Executives, Family Areas 0.84% 4.43% 19.09 Well-Off Workers, Family Areas 0.00% 7.27% 0.00 Rising Affluent Urbanites, Town & City Areas 1.73% 2.56% 67.62 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan Areas 7.35% 2.04% 360.25 Better-Off Executives, Inner City Areas 46.06% 3.94% 1,167.93 Settling Comfortable Middle Agers, Mature Home Owning Areas 0.56% 13.04% 4.27 Skilled Workers, Home Owning Areas 0.00% 12.70% 0.00 Aspiring New Home Owners, Mature Communities 0.01% 8.14% 0.06 White Collar Workers, Better-Off Multi Ethnic Areas 3.72% 4.02% 92.61 Striving Older People, Less Prosperous Areas 0.00% 3.19% 0.00 Council Estate Residents, Better-Off Homes 0.00% 11.31% 0.00 Council Estate Residents, High Unemployment 19.61% 3.06% 640.30 Council Estate Residents, Greatest Hardship 0.00% 2.52% 0.16 People in Multi-Ethnic, Low-Income Areas 18.34% 2.10% 873.56 Unclassified Unclassified 0.73% 0.06% 1,168.04

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   £0-5K 5.65% 9.41% 59.99 £5-10K 11.06% 16.63% 66.49 £10-15K 12.75% 16.58% 76.93 £15-20K 11.99% 13.58% 88.30 £20-25K 10.35% 10.39% 99.62 £25-30K 8.59% 7.77% 110.53 £30-35K 7.00% 5.79% 120.88 £35-40K 5.66% 4.33% 130.66 £40-45K 4.57% 3.27% 139.88 £45-50K 3.69% 2.48% 148.57 £50-55K 2.99% 1.90% 156.79 £55-60K 2.43% 1.47% 164.59 £60-65K 1.98% 1.15% 172.00 £65-70K 1.62% 0.91% 179.07 £70-75K 1.34% 0.72% 185.83 £75-80K 1.11% 0.57% 192.31 £80-85K 0.92% 0.46% 198.54 £85-90K 0.77% 0.37% 204.55 £90-95K 0.64% 0.31% 210.35 £95-100K 0.54% 0.25% 215.96 £100K + 3.37% 1.34% 250.41