Camden Council announced early on 9 October 2026 that Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali was elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras, and BBC News and the Guardian reported the Labour win.
The hold market resolves on the declaration made by the returning officer for Camden in the early hours of 9 October and on the certified result published by the Electoral Commission. A Labour win by any margin resolves YES, a win by any other candidate resolves NO, and a recount changes nothing until the declaration is made. The BBC and the Guardian results pages stand in if the certified figures are slow.
We looked at byelections since 2010 in seats the governing party had won at the last general election, in the first three years of a parliament. This one comes 26 months into the parliament elected in 2024. We show the last eight. The governing party kept two of them.