Hertsmere
Hertsmere
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<catset>Category="Hertsmere"</catset><catset>Category="Local government in Hertfordshire"</catset><right><p><table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=300><tr><th colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=ff9999>Borough of Hertsmere</th></tr><tr><td colspan=2 align=center>[image]<br><i>Shown within <a href="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan=2 bgcolor=ff9999>Geography</th></tr><tr><td width=45%>Status:</td><td>Borough</td></tr><tr><td><a href="Regions of England">Region</a>:</td><td><a href="East of England">East of England</a></td></tr><tr><td>Admin. County:</td><td><a href="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="Area">Area</a>:<br>- Total</td><td><a href="List of English districts by area">Ranked 243rd</a><br><a href="1 E8 mē">101.16</a> <a href="Square metre">kmē</a></td></tr><tr><td>Admin. HQ:</td><td><a href="Borehamwood">Borehamwood</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="ONS coding system">ONS code</a>:</td><td>26UE</td></tr><tr><th colspan=2 bgcolor=ff9999>Demographics</th></tr><tr><td><a href="Population">Population</a>:<br>- Total (<a href="2003">2003</a> est.)<br>- <a href="Density">Density</a></td><td><a href="List of English districts by population">Ranked 237th</a><br>93,769<br>927 / kmē</td></tr><tr><td>Ethnicity:</td><td>92.5% White<br>3.3% S.Asian<br>1.4% Afro-Carib.</td></tr><tr><th colspan=2 bgcolor=ff9999>Politics</th></tr><tr><td colspan=2 align=center>[image]<br>Hertsmere Borough Council<br>http://www.hertsmere.gov.uk/</td></tr><tr><td><a href="Local government in the United Kingdom">Leadership</a>:</td><td>Leader & Cabinet</td></tr><tr><td>Executive:</td><td><a href="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005">MPs</a>:</td><td><a href="James Clappison">James Clappison</a>, <a href="Claire Ward">Claire Ward</a></td></tr></table><p></right> <b>Hertsmere</b> is a <a href="Non-metropolitan district">local government district</a> and <a href="Borough">Borough</a> in <a href="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>, <a href="England">England</a>.  Its council is based in <a href="Borehamwood">Borehamwood</a>.  Other towns in the borough include <a href="Elstree">Elstree</a> and <a href="Potters Bar">Potters Bar</a>.<p>Hertsmere is represented in Parliament by Conservative James Clappison.<p>The borough was originally in the <a href="Metropolitan Police Service">Metropolitan Police District</a>, despite being outside the modern <a href="Greater London">Greater London</a> boundaries.  It was not transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary until <a href="2000">2000</a>.<p><p><table style="margin:0 auto;"><tr><td align=center><b><a href="Districts of England">Districts of England</a> - <a href="East of England">East of England</a></b> </td><td>[image]</td></tr><tr><td align=center> <small> <a href="Babergh">Babergh</a> | <a href="Basildon (district)">Basildon</a> | <a href="Bedford (borough)">Bedford</a> | <a href="Braintree (district)">Braintree</a> | <a href="Breckland">Breckland</a> | <a href="Brentwood (borough)">Brentwood</a> | <a href="Broadland">Broadland</a> | <a href="Broxbourne">Broxbourne</a> | <a href="Cambridge">Cambridge</a> | <a href="Castle Point">Castle Point</a> | <a href="Chelmsford (borough)">Chelmsford</a> | <a href="Colchester (borough)">Colchester</a> | <a href="Dacorum">Dacorum</a> | <a href="East Cambridgeshire">East Cambridgeshire</a> | <a href="East Hertfordshire">East Hertfordshire</a> | <a href="Epping Forest (district)">Epping Forest</a> | <a href="Fenland">Fenland</a> | <a href="Forest Heath">Forest Heath</a> | <a href="Great Yarmouth (borough)">Great Yarmouth</a> | <a href="Harlow">Harlow</a> | Hertsmere | <a href="Huntingdonshire">Huntingdonshire</a> | <a href="Ipswich">Ipswich</a> | <a href="King's Lynn and West Norfolk">King's Lynn and West Norfolk</a> | <a href="Luton">Luton</a> | <a href="Maldon (district)">Maldon</a> | <a href="Mid Bedfordshire">Mid Bedfordshire</a> | <a href="Mid Suffolk">Mid Suffolk</a> | <a href="North Hertfordshire">North Hertfordshire</a> | <a href="North Norfolk">North Norfolk</a> | <a href="Norwich">Norwich</a> | <a href="City of Peterborough">Peterborough</a> | <a href="Rochford (district)">Rochford</a> | <a href="City and District of St Albans">St Albans</a> | <a href="St Edmundsbury (borough)">St Edmundsbury</a> | <a href="South Bedfordshire">South Bedfordshire</a> | <a href="South Cambridgeshire">South Cambridgeshire</a> | <a href="Southend-on-Sea">Southend-on-Sea</a> | <a href="South Norfolk">South Norfolk</a> | <a href="Stevenage">Stevenage</a> | <a href="Suffolk Coastal">Suffolk Coastal</a> | <a href="Tendring">Tendring</a> | <a href="Three Rivers (district)">Three Rivers</a> | <a href="Thurrock">Thurrock</a> | <a href="Uttlesford">Uttlesford</a> | <a href="Watford">Watford</a> | <a href="Waveney">Waveney</a> | <a href="Welwyn Hatfield">Welwyn Hatfield</a> </small></td></tr><tr><td align=center> <p>  <i><a href="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England">Counties</a> with multiple districts: <a href="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a> - <a href="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a> - <a href="Essex">Essex</a> - <a href="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a> - <a href="Norfolk">Norfolk</a> - <a href="Suffolk">Suffolk</a></i></td></tr></table><p>