Abbey is one of eleven

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s within the City of Lincoln Council. As of 2023, the Liberal Democrats hold all three seats in the ward having first taken a seat in the 2021 local elections being the first time a non- Labour Party candidate had won a seat in the ward since

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. The ward is split between two Lincolnshire County Council divisions, St Giles in the north and

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in the south who respectively have elected a

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and Labour county councillor.

Geography

The ward encompasses a large part of the east of Lincoln, stretching from Danesgate near the centre of town, up part of Lindum Hill, along Monks, Greetwell and Wragby Road, ending at the Carlton Centre bordering West Lindsey. It contains the County Hospital, Lincoln Prison, Greetwell Hollow Nature Reserve, the Usher Art Gallery and the Museum as well as the City of Lincoln Arboretum and the ruins of an abbey on Monks Road. Furthermore, there are two primary and secondary education schools in the ward; Monks Abbey School and Lincoln Carlton Academy as well as Lincoln College on the west end of Monks Road. Abbey ward contains several areas of high deprivation, with an area in the south of the ward covering Cannon and Croft Street ranking in the top 5% in the UK for economic deprivation with 25.7% of children in poverty. Approximately 9.4% of 16–18 year olds not in education, employment or training, the second highest in the city and the ward has the highest unemployment rate of all electoral wards in the city, at 10.8%.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, the ward profile population was 11,310. Of the findings, the ethnicity and religious composition of the ward was: The religious composition of the ward at the 2021 Census was recorded as:

Councillors

Abbey is represented in

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by Hamish Falconer MP for Lincoln. The ward is represented on the City of Lincoln Council by three councillors: Clare Smalley, Martin Christopher and Natasha Chapman. Each of the three were elected in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 local elections respectively, with the latter two defeating incumbent Labour Councillors.

Electoral history

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2010s

2000s

References

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