# Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras

Date: 2015

## The fact

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. Keep the constituency certificate separate from later Cabinet bills.

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.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

The path is [democratic-resilience](/drivers/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.

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras on 2015-05-07 is not a licence to treat every later UK Parliament communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Keir Starmer is elected MP for Holborn and St Pancras into a personality. 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.

## People

- Keir Starmer: https://factrail.ai/people/mig-keir-starmer

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/E14000750
- https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/keir-starmer/4514

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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