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Tottenham Hale (ward)

electoral ward in the London borough of Haringey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ56295620 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tottenham Hale is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Haringey. The ward was first used in the 2002 elections. It returns three councillors to Haringey London Borough Council, England.

Councillors

Elections

2026

2023 by-election

The by-election took place on 9 March 2023, following the resignation of Yannis Gourtsoyannis.

2022 election

The election took place on 5 May 2022, under new boundaries.

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The public source identifies “Tottenham Hale (ward)” as electoral ward in the London borough of Haringey. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tottenham, Hale and ward.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2026, 2023, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tottenham, Hale and ward providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tottenham Hale (ward)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.