Hampstead became part of the County of London in 1888 and in 1899 the MetropolitanBorough of Hampstead was formed.
In 1965 the metropolitanborough was merged with the MetropolitanBorough of Holborn and the MetropolitanBorough of St Pancras to form the modern-day London Borough of Camden.
Hampstead is part of the Hampstead and Highgate constituency and since 1992 the member of parliament has been the former actress Glenda Jackson of the Labour Party.