Brighton and Hove City: Queen's Park ward

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Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the ground around this area — housing sites, schools, protected areas, air quality — and who represents you now.

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Boundary: ONS Open Geography Portal (Open Government Licence). Map tiles: OpenStreetMap.

Who represents you now

Councillors for Queen's Park, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:

Marina Lademacher, Green Party (E&W)
Milla Gauge, Labour Party

This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.

Across the whole of Brighton and Hove council (54 seats in 2026): Conservative 5, Labour 33, Green 10, Other 6. Run by: Labour, with a majority.

Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.

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Brighton and Hove City: Queen's Park ward in numbers

Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.

People claiming unemployment-related benefits

400 people in Queen's Park ward, 5.1% of residents aged 16–64, against 4% across England (August 2026).

Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.

House prices in Brighton And Hove

Average price £408,948, down 1.1% on a year earlier (July 2026).

Flats and maisonettes: £295,683
Detached houses: £858,475

Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.

Recorded crime nearby, July 2026

1,801 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.

violent crime: 514
anti social behaviour: 412
shoplifting: 283
public order: 166
other theft: 103
criminal damage arson: 90

Source: data.police.uk (Open Government Licence). Centroid of the ONS 2024 boundary. Statistics near this point describe the area, not any household. Recorded crime reflects reporting and policing as well as offending; see the ONS guidance in further reading.

Past elections in this ward

Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.

2024 — Labour Party elected

Milla Gauge	Labour Party	1,241
Luke Walker	Green Party	766
Adrian Hart	Brighton & Hove Independents	449
Sunny Choudhury	Conservative and Unionist Party	168
Dominique Hall	Liberal Democrats	67

2023 — Labour Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 33%

Tristram Burden	Labour Party	1,822
Chandni Mistry	Labour Party	1,702
Clare Elizabeth Rainey	Green Party	856
Mark Strong	Green Party	682
Adrian Hart	Brighton & Hove Independents	467
Martin David John Kenig	Conservative and Unionist Party	266
Thomas Osborne	Liberal Democrats	163

2019 — Green Party, Labour Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 50%

Clare Elizabeth Rainey	Green Party	2,083
Amanda Evans	Labour Party	1,996
Nick Childs	Labour Party	1,894
Lucy Agace	Green Party	1,749
Colin Piper	Labour Party	1,737
Martin James Farley	Green Party	1,691
James William Noble	Conservative and Unionist Party	591
Lee Anthony Farmer	Conservative and Unionist Party	574
Josephine Victoria O'Carroll	Conservative and Unionist Party	546
Adrian Hart	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	500
George Taylor	Liberal Democrats	377

2015 — Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 76%

Karen Barford	Labour Party	3,284
Daniel Chapman	Labour Party	3,017
Adrian Morris	Labour Party	2,764
Stephanie Powell	Green Party	2,555
Geoffrey Bowden	Green Party	2,484
Richard Stanton	Green Party	2,062
Chris Shanks	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,452
Philip Brownlie	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,366
Daisy Shirley	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,359
Liz Robinson	Liberal Democrats	593
Brian Stone	Liberal Democrats	349
Colin Piper	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	243

2011 — Green Party, Green Party, Green Party elected · turnout 46%

Geoffrey Bowden	Green Party	2,227
Stephanie Powell	Green Party	2,221
Ben Duncan	Green Party	2,147
Daniel Chapman	Labour Party	1,970
Christopher Cooke	Labour Party	1,867
Tom French	Labour Party	1,822
Philip Brownlie	Conservative and Unionist Party	766
Anne Glow	Conservative and Unionist Party	738
Gail Woodcock	Conservative and Unionist Party	653
Elizabeth Robinson	Liberal Democrats	237
Jacob Frohawk-McLucas	Liberal Democrats	189
Brian Ralfe	Independent	155
Mohammed Asaduzzaman	Independent	140

2007 — Green Party, Green Party, Green Party elected

Rachel Fryer	Green Party	1,826
Paul Steedman	Green Party	1,549
Ben Duncan	Green Party	1,473
Delia Forester	Labour Party	1,458
Kenneth Bodfish	Labour Party	1,455
Simon Burgess	Labour Party	1,418
Nick Maskell	Conservative and Unionist Party	926
Ariane Poulain	Conservative and Unionist Party	820
Gail Woodcock	Conservative and Unionist Party	752
Elizabeth Robinson	Liberal Democrats	369
Joe Blease	Liberal Democrats	364
Graham Bucknall	Liberal Democrats	304
John Walshe	Independent	91

Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.

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