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Harrow Road (ward)

electoral ward in the London borough of Westminster

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ56295181 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harrow Road is an electoral ward of the City of Westminster. The ward has existed since the creation of the borough on 1 April 1965 and was first used in the 1964 elections. It returns councillors to Westminster City Council.

Westminster council elections since 2022

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Westminster in 2022.

2026 election

The election took place on 7 May 2026

2024 by-election

The by-election took place on 19 September 2024, following the resignation of Tim Roca. It took place on the same day as the by-election in West End ward.

2022 election

The election took place on 5 May 2022.

2002–2022 Westminster council elections

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Wetminster in 2002.

2018 election

The election took place on 3 May 2018.

2015 by-election

The by-election took place on 23 July 2015.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Harrow Road (ward)” is electoral ward in the London borough of Westminster. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Harrow, Road and ward, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1964, 2022, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Harrow, Road and ward is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56295181. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1964, 2022 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harrow Road (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.