Walthamstow has been held by the Labour and Co-operative Party MP Stella Creasy since 2010, reports Marco Marcelline
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he may stand in Walthamstow at the next general election.
The former E17 resident told The Times that he was debating standing in either Hackney South and Shoreditch, Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Walthamstow, or Tottenham.
Polanski, who now lives in Hackney, told the newspaper: “I’d definitely consider Hackney, but also Walthamstow, Tottenham, kind of round about where I live. I think London’s interesting in that way because on my bike you can be in any of those constituencies within about ten minutes of cycling. But yes, I will definitely be running for MP somewhere in that area.”
Walthamstow has been held by the Labour and Co-operative Party MP Stella Creasy since 2010.
Creasy secured a 17,966 vote lead over the second placed candidate, a Green, in 2024. However, this is a marked decrease from the 30,862 majority she secured in 2019.
As the Green Party’s most prominent politician, his candidacy in any of the aforementioned constituencies would likely pose a significant challenge to Labour incumbents amid surging support for the Greens in London.
Should Polanski choose to stand in Walthamstow, he could count on a growing base of local Green volunteers and members to support his campaign; the Greens say membership in Waltham Forest surged from 630 in September 2025 to over 1,400 by November, a 122% increase.
Meanwhile, the party is planning to stand candidates in every Waltham Forest ward in the upcoming May local elections. In 2022, Green Party candidates came second behind Labour in twelve of 22 Waltham Forest wards, seven of which were in Walthamstow.
Recent polling is nonetheless divided on Greens’ chances in the next general election: Electoral Calculus has put Polanski’s party on course to win 29 of London’s 75 parliamentary seats, while YouGov predicted in September that it would win none.
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