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Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras

On 7 May 2015 Keir Starmer was elected Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras, succeeding Frank Dobson. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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On 7 May 2015 Keir Starmer was elected Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras, succeeding Frank Dobson.

Context

Voters in the boroughs of Camden and a slice of the inner city produced the result. Starmer was the Labour candidate. Returning officers certified. Office as MP is not authorship of every later Labour manifesto.

The 2020 leadership and the 2024 premiership are different dates.

A backbench MP can vote, question, and later take a front-bench brief. He does not enact statutes alone and does not command the civil service.

Why it matters

The path is democratic-resilience: a completed competitive constituency election is a procedural staffing of the Commons. It does not authorise treating every later Act as this ballot.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Keir Starmer

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.35 · verified

    He was the winning candidate. Returning officers certified. Constituents voted.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactKeir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras
    2. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 7 May 2015 · verified

    A completed constituency election staffs the Commons through ordinary competitive procedure.

    • Having a say in government

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.21 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.7)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Clean elections index

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.

      Above normal = better

    • WJP Rule of Law Index (global)

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      Above normal = better

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.BBC — Holborn and St Pancras 2015 resultBBC · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.UK Parliament — Keir Starmer MP biographyUK Parliament · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

UK Parliament carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently.

Established: Starmer was elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras on 7 May 2015.

Returning officers certified. Constituents voted.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras, not a later speech about Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was the winning candidate. Returning officers certified. Constituents voted. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorKeir Starmer
  2. contributed toFactKeir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras
  3. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-starmer-elected-holborn-mp-2015

https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-starmer-elected-holborn-mp-2015

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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