Labour holds Holborn and St Pancras as Green leader Zack Polanski finishes second

10 October 2026

The result of the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary by-election in central London was declared at Camden Council headquarters in the early hours of 9 October 2026. Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden Council, won with 12,292 votes, about 45 per cent of the vote. Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, finished second with 8,928 votes, leaving a majority of 3,364. Reform UK's Peter Newman took 1,612 votes, just under 6 per cent. The seat fell vacant when Keir Starmer resigned it in September after stepping down as Prime Minister.