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Kensington (UK Parliament constituency)

Kensington was a constituency in Greater London which first existed between 1974 and 1997 and was recreated in 2010, until 2024. It was replaced by the Kensington and Bayswater constituency, first contested at the 2024 general election.
At the 2017 general election, Emma Dent Coad gained the seat for Labour from incumbent Conservative Victoria Borwick by the slenderest margin in England, 20 votes, the first time Kensington had been represented by a Labour MP. Dent Coad was defeated by Felicity Buchan for the Conservatives at the 2019 United Kingdom general election by a narrow margin of 150 votes.
Kensington was known as the wealthiest parliamentary constituency in the whole of the United Kingdom.