The placeConstituency · London · Electorate 77,500 · 2023 boundaries

Finchley and Golders Green.

Labour Party MP Sarah Sackman holds the seat on 44.3% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentSarah Sackman · Labour Party
CouncilBarnet
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001238
Electorate · 2024
77.5k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
44.3%
Labour Party · +9.3pp over Con
Settlements
2
Largest: Barnet
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
28.3
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
2 Jun 2026

Finchley and Golders Green's MP has been most visibly active on antisemitism since a petrol bomb attack on a local synagogue in April. Sarah Sackman visited the site, publicly condemned the attack, and committed to raising Jewish community security at government level -- a response that drew broadly positive local coverage. That visibility sits alongside more contested ground: a March article alleged she was driving proposals to restrict jury trials in England while holding undisclosed ties to pro-Israel legal lobbying networks, a claim that generated significant negative coverage among her performance-watchers.

A 100% party-line voter with no rebel votes, Sackman participates in 74% of divisions -- slightly below the Commons average. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with progressive taxation and workers' rights, and she voted with the government in April to tighten asylum support rules, backing ministers' power to withdraw housing and financial assistance from failed asylum seekers who work illegally. Her clearest deviation from Labour colleagues is on consumer protection, where she votes more firmly than most party peers, and on assisted dying, where she leans more cautious than the Labour average. Crime dominates her speech activity, accounting for 71 of 841 contributions across 99 debates, with social care and the economy following some distance behind. She also secured a 50-year peppercorn rent deal for a cash-hit local arts venue -- a concrete constituency win reported in late 2025.

Sackman serves as a Justice Minister, which explains her focus on crime and the jury trial controversy. No committee memberships are recorded. News sentiment across 77 articles in the past 90 days averages modestly positive, with crime and antisemitism coverage driving the more favourable scores; performance-related coverage pulls that average down.

44.3%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
8
Wards · 20 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.8 wards · 20 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Childs Hill(3 seats)Gheasuddin · Turner · Conway6,586Barnet LabMay 2026
Cricklewood(2 seats)Schneiderman · Clarke1,502Barnet LabMay 2026
East Finchley(3 seats)Menon · Moore · Minshall6,992Barnet LabMay 2026
Finchley Church End(3 seats)Grocock · Mastin-Lee · Rajput8,398Barnet LabMay 2026
Garden Suburb(2 seats)Levy · Mire5,294Barnet LabMay 2026
Golders Green(2 seats)Cohen · Zinkin4,917Barnet LabMay 2026
West Finchley(3 seats)Rich · McGuirk · Houston6,187Barnet LabMay 2026
Woodhouse(2 seats)Hutton · Thompson2,618Barnet LabMay 2026

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 02Settlements.2 named places

The seat’s population is concentrated in Barnet (124,562), with Rural & dispersed (1,486) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 126,048.

city 124,562village 1,486

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Barnet124,562city
Rural & dispersed1,486village
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate60.0%57.1%+5%
Owner-occupied50.5%63.1%-20%
Private rented38.6%20.0%+93%
Social rented10.8%16.8%-36%

Ethnicity.

White59.8%
Asian17.8%
Black5.9%
Mixed5.3%
Other11.3%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.2% Female 51.8% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£37,600
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£73,200
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
10,705
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
51
27 primary · 8 secondary
GCSE pass
80.9%
Attainment 8: 59.2

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£1210m
Taxpayers63,000
Median per taxpayer£4,350
Mean per taxpayer£19,100

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk · 12-month rolling

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
28.3
+36% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
9.4
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
24% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences6.8
Anti-social behaviour6.3
Vehicle crime2.7
Shoplifting2.5
Other theft1.9
Burglary1.8
Drugs1.6

Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop

Showing 7 of 15·All 15 categories — full monthly trend & settlement breakdown
§ 06Election history.5 contests · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Sarah SackmanWONLab21,85744.3
Alex DeaneCon17,27635.0
Sarah HoyleLD3,3756.8
Steve ParsonsGrn3,1076.3
Giuseppe PezzulliRef2,5985.3
Brendan Patrick DonnellyInd4861.0
Katharine Margaret MurphyInd3180.7
Michael ShadInd2720.6

Turnout 49,289

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Mike FreerCon43.8
2017Mike FreerCon47.0
2015Mike FreerCon50.9
2010Freer, MikeCon46.0
Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
SchoolsDfE · attainment data
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission