Highgate (Camden ward)

Highgate is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom.

The ward has existed since the creation of the borough on 1 April 1965 and was first used in the 1964 elections.

It returns three councillors to Camden London Borough Council.

In October 2019, during its review of the London Borough of Camden, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) proposed removing Dartmouth Park from the Highgate ward.

[1] This was met with "anger" from local residents, and the LGBCE's final recommendations for Camden, published in February 2020, included only a single three-member ward for Highgate, accepting that "its previous proposal a two-councillor ward alongside a one-councillor ward would have divided local communities.

Highgate ward took in an area south of the Gospel Oak to Barking railway line including the Sanderson Close and Carrol Close area and a triangle of industrial land surrounded by railways.

Highgate ward took in more of the Dartmouth Park area, north of the Gospel Oak to Barking railway line, that had previously been part of the Gospel Oak and St John's wards.