Swiss Cottage (ward)

This article is about the electoral ward in the London Borough of Camden. For the area this ward is named after, see Swiss Cottage.

Swiss Cottage
Former electoral ward for the Camden London Borough Council
Swiss Cottage ward boundaries from 2002 to 2022
Borough	Camden
County	Greater London
Population	12,900 (2011)
Electorate	9,192 (2018)
Former electoral ward
Created	1971
Abolished	2022
Councillors	1971–1978: 4 1978–2022: 3
Replaced by	Primrose Hill, South Hampstead
ONS code	00AGGW (2002–2022)
GSS code	E05000144 (2002–2022)

Swiss Cottage was a ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. The ward was first created for the 1971 election, redrawn in 1978 and 2002, and abolished for the 2022 elections.^[1][2][3] The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 12,900.^[4]

Swiss Cottage ward was a long, thin ward centred on the intersection between Avenue Road and Finchley Road at Swiss Cottage. To the west of the intersection, it included South Hampstead. To the south-east, it included the northern part of St John's Wood and western part of Primrose Hill.

Under its previous form, Swiss Cottage covered just South Hampstead, while the former Adelaide ward covered the parts of the ward the east of Finchley Road (including Ye Olde Swiss Cottage itself). The ward was abolished for the 2022 election and its area was divided between the newly created Primrose Hill and South Hampstead wards.^[5][6]

Councillors

Notable former councillors include Andrew Marshall (former Leader of the Conservative Group on Camden Council), Gloria Lazenby (former Labour Mayor of Camden), Tony Kerpel (political adviser who served as the personal assistant to Prime Minister Edward Heath),^[7][8][9] and former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell. In 2002, Swiss Cottage elected Camden's first Jamaican councillor, Don Williams.^[10]

1978–2022

Three councillors represented Swiss Cottage ward between 1978 and 2022.^[3]

Election	Councillor		Councillor		Councillor
2022	Ward abolished: see South Hampstead and Primrose Hill
2018		Nayra Bello O'Shanahan (Lab)		Leo Cassarani (Lab)		Simon Pearson (Lab)
2014		Andrew Marshall (Con)		Roger Freeman (Con)		Don Williams (Con)
2010		Andrew Marshall (Con)		Roger Freeman (Con)		Don Williams (Con)
2006		Andrew Marshall (Con)		Roger Freeman (Con)		Don Williams (Con)
2002		Andrew Marshall (Con)		Stephen Hocking (Con)		Don Williams (Con)
1999 by-election		Honora Morrissey (Con)		Robert Hall (Lab)		Stephen Hocking (Con)
1998		Mary Ryan (Lab)
1994		Raymond Adamson (Lab)		John Macdonald (Lab)		Patrick Weir (Lab)
1992 by-election		Peter J. Skolar (Con)		Anne Morris (Con)		Peter Horne (Con)
1990		Vaughan Emsley (Con)
1986		Gloria Lazenby (Lab)		Alan Rippington (Lab)		Adrian Van States (Lab)
1983 by-election		Robert Graham (Con)		David Stone (Con)		Harry Whitcut (Con)
1982		Derek Spencer (Con)
1979 by-election		David Osborne (Con)		Michael Flynn (Con)		Ronald Rees (Con)
1978						Brian Stoner (Con)

1971–1978

Four councillors represented Swiss Cottage ward between 1971 and 1978.^[3]

Election	Councillor		Councillor		Councillor		Councillor
1977 by-election		Ron King (Con)		Michael C. Brahams (Con)		Anthony Kerpel (Con)		Brian Stoner (Con)
1974				Ronald Raymond-Cox (Con)
1972 by-election		Tessa Jowell (Lab)		Neil McIntosh (Lab)		Arthur Soutter (Lab)		Ernest Wistrich (Lab)
1971				John Eidinow (Lab)

Election results

The last election was held on 3 May 2018. Candidates seeking re-election are marked with an asterisk (*).^[3]

2002–2018

2018 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 3 May 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nayra Bello O'Shanahan	1,605	45.5	+12.5
	Labour	Leo Cassarani	1,541	43.7	+12.9
	Labour	Simon Pearson	1,417	40.1	+7.7
	Conservative	Kate Fairhurst	1,324	37.5	−5.5
	Conservative	Calvin Robinson	1,277	36.2	−5.3
	Conservative	Don Williams *	1,277	36.2	−3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Scott Jeremy Benson	456	12.9	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Kushal Bhimjiani	448	12.7	+3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Russell	388	11.0	+3.6
	Green	Sheila Hayman	262	7.4	−6.5
	Green	Brian Gascoigne	250	7.1	−4.7
	Independent	Lina Hammouda	36	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Peter Straker	33	0.9	N/A
	Independent	Calvin Po	24	0.7	N/A
Turnout				38.47
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

2014 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 22 May 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Marshall *	1,340	43.0	+4.1
	Conservative	Roger Freeman *	1,294	41.5	+2.4
	Conservative	Don Williams *	1,221	39.2	−0.3
	Labour	Ben Nunn	1,029	33.0	+6.0
	Labour	Simon Pearson	1,008	32.4	+10.7
	Labour	Gretel Reynolds	960	30.8	+10.2
	Green	Tom Franklin	433	13.9	+6.9
	Green	Helen Jack	367	11.8	+5.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jill Newbrook	347	11.1	−17.6
	Green	Sheila Patton	339	10.9	+6.0
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Butler	300	9.6	−16.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Haslam-Jones	230	7.4	−17.8
Turnout			8,886	34.7
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

In 2018, Andrew Marshall resigned from the Conservative Party and defected to the Liberal Democrats.

2010 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 6 May 2010^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Don Williams *	2,179	39.5	−5.1
	Conservative	Roger Freeman *	2,161	39.1	−6.5
	Conservative	Andrew Marshall *	2,145	38.9	−7.4
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Horton	1,586	28.7	+9.2
	Labour	Katharine Bligh	1,488	27.0	+3.4
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Koutsoumbos	1,411	25.6	+11.1
	Liberal Democrats	Flo Cubbin	1,389	25.2	+10.9
	Labour	Lewis Baston	1,196	21.7	−1.2
	Labour	Kathryn Purcell	1,139	20.6	+1.9
	Green	Stephen Cottle	384	7.0	−8.6
	Green	Morgan Watkins	367	6.6	−6.1
	Green	Alan Wheatley	273	4.9	−4.2
	UKIP	Magnus Nielsen	139	2.5	+0.2
Turnout			5,520	60.3	+28.3
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

2006 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 4 May 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Marshall *	1,292	46.3	−2.3
	Conservative	Roger Freeman	1,272	45.6	−6.1
	Conservative	Don Williams *	1,243	44.6	−3.3
	Labour	Katharine Bligh	659	23.6	+1.6
	Labour	Selman Ansari	638	22.9	+1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jillian Newbrook	543	19.5	+1.1
	Labour	Charles Keal	522	18.7	−1.8
	Green	Elizabeth Charvet	435	15.6	+7.9
	Liberal Democrats	Harriet Sloane	405	14.5	−3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Sally Twite	400	14.3	−2.9
	Green	Lucy Wills	355	12.7	+1.0
	Green	Alan Wheatley	255	9.1	+2.6
	UKIP	Magnus Nielsen	63	2.3	+0.7
	CPA	Alphonse Komesha	25	0.9	N/A
Turnout			8,107	32.0
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

2002 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 2 May 2002

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Hocking *	1,175	51.7
	Conservative	Andrew Marshall	1,106	48.6
	Conservative	Don Williams	1,090	47.9
	Labour	Geoffrey Berridge	500	22.0
	Labour	David Taggart	484	21.3
	Labour	Abdul Careem	467	20.5
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Collins	419	18.4
	Liberal Democrats	Rosalyn Harper	416	18.3
	Liberal Democrats	Honora Morrissey	391	17.2
	Green	Lucy Wills	265	11.7
	Green	Katherina Wolpe	174	7.7
	Green	Wolfgang Heiny	148	6.5
	Independent	Magnus Nielsen	36	1.6
Turnout			6,671	28.6

1978–2002

The last election on 7 May 1998 was held under the original ward boundaries.^[3]

1999 by-election

Swiss Cottage by-election, 22 April 1999^[1]^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Honora Morrissey	705	42.7	+17.2
	Labour	Deborah H. Sacks	557	33.8	+3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Rex C. Warrick	158	9.6	−5.2
	Independent Labour	John Macdonald	126	7.6	−12.6
	Green	Douglas S. Earl	59	3.6	−6.0
	Independent	Mehdi A. Farshtchi	45	2.7	+2.7
Majority			148	8.9
Turnout			1,650	24.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Mary Ryan.

1998 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 7 May 1998

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Ryan	887
	Labour	Robert Hall	834
	Conservative	Stephen Hocking	756
	Conservative	Honora Morrissey	754
	Conservative	Peter Horne	732
	Labour	Bernard Moss	710
	Independent Labour	John Macdonald *	600
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Collins	439
	Liberal Democrats	Sally Twite	378
	Liberal Democrats	Herbert Newbrook	365
	Green	Catherine Gregory	284
Turnout			6,739	35.4
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

1994 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 5 May 1994

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Raymond Adamson	1,076
	Labour	John Macdonald	1,070
	Labour	Patrick Weir	1,015
	Conservative	Anne Morris *	926
	Conservative	Peter Horne *	869
	Conservative	Peter Skolar *	865
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Burney-Jones	420
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Collins	418
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Self	374
	Green	Debra Green	232
Turnout				42.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

1992 by-election

Swiss Cottage by-election, 7 May 1992

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter J. Skolar	1,278	50.5
	Labour	Nicholas Prior	940	37.1
	Liberal Democrats	Diana M. Self	222	8.8
	Green	Stephen N. Games	91	3.6
Turnout				42.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Vaughan A. Emsley.

1990 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 3 May 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vaughan Emsley	1,159
	Conservative	Anne Morris	1,153
	Conservative	Peter Horne	1,120
	Labour	Barbara Beck	1,108
	Labour	Terence Flanagan	1,069
	Labour	Sandra Plummer	1,018
	Green	Caroline Counihan	449
	Green	Nicholas Catephores	381
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Fuelling	273
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Self	250
	Liberal Democrats	Gillian Wagner	234
	Camden Charter	Alan Rogers	176
Turnout				48.9
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

1986 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 8 May 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gloria Lazenby	1,326
	Labour	Alan Rippington	1,307
	Labour	Adrian Van States	1,155
	Conservative	Robert Graham *	1,140
	Conservative	David Stone *	1,136
	Conservative	Roberta Robson	1,103
	Alliance	Ian Bond	637
	Alliance	Roderick Atkin	613
	Alliance	Clive Pembridge	569
	Green	Janet Crawford	280
Turnout				51.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

1983 by-election

Swiss Cottage by-election, 21 July 1983

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Graham	1,168
	Labour	Jacqueline Peacock	994
	Alliance	Andrew Bridgwater	457
Turnout				37.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Derek Spencer on his election as MP for Leicester South.

1982 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 6 May 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Spencer	1,352
	Conservative	David Stone	1,322
	Conservative	Harry Whitcut	1,291
	Labour	Jacqueline Peacock	1,102
	Labour	Ralph Cowly	1,086
	Labour	Harry McCall	1,058
	Alliance	Andrew Bridgwater	742
	Alliance	Paul Burrall	714
	Alliance	Richard Ford	711
	Ecology	Geoffrey Syer	91
	Ecology	John Comben	82
Turnout				46.1
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

1979 by-election

Swiss Cottage by-election, 3 May 1979

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Rees	2,282
	Labour	Enyd Norman	1,885
	Liberal	Roger Billins	719
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Brian Stoner.

1978 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 4 May 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Osborne	1,648
	Conservative	Michael Flynn	1,633
	Conservative	Brian Stoner *	1,602
	Labour	Christopher Heginbotham	1,343
	Labour	Enyd Norman	1,326
	Labour	Denis MacShane	1,274
	Liberal	Andrew Bridgwater	297
	Liberal	Jillian Newbrook	292
	Liberal	Janet Heller	291
Turnout				45.1
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Pre 1978

Before 1978, under different boundaries, the ward was represented by four councillors.^[3]

1977 by-election

Swiss Cottage by-election, 20 October 1977

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael C. Brahams	1,682
	Labour	Margaret Anna. V. Bowman	1,081
	Liberal	Andrew Bridgwater	189
	National Front	Gwendoline J. Evans	68
Turnout				32.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Ronald Raymond-Cox.

1974 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 2 May 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ron King	1,636	45.7
	Conservative	Ronald Raymond-Cox	1,625
	Conservative	Anthony Kerpel	1,616
	Conservative	Brian Stoner	1,559
	Labour	William Budd	1,535	42.8
	Labour	Walter Burgess	1,533
	Labour	Arthur Soutter *	1,508
	Labour	Gurmukh Singh	1,465
	Liberal	Kenneth Carter	412	11.5
	Liberal	Robert Pellegrinetti	369
Turnout				38.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

1972 by-election

Swiss Cottage by-election, 2 March 1972^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil McIntosh	1,576
	Conservative	Ron King	1,481
	Liberal	Ray Benad	267
Turnout				33.1
	Labour hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of John Eidinow.

1971 election

Swiss Cottage ward election, 13 May 1971

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ms Tessa Jowell	2,026	48.9
	Labour	John Eidinow	2,018
	Labour	Arthur Soutter	1,974
	Labour	Ernest Wistrich	1,893
	Conservative	Ronald King	1,804	43.5
	Conservative	Ms Phillippa Raymond-Cox	1,792
	Conservative	Ms Christine Stewart-Munro	1,787
	Conservative	Sidney Torrance	1,780
	Liberal	Ms Kay Peacock	317	7.6
	Liberal	Ray Benad	298
Turnout				38.8
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

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