Editing Cripplegate (section)

===Politics===
Current elected representatives in Cripplegate are [[David Graves (Alderman)]], Mark Bostock, David Bradshaw, Mary Durcan, [[Vivienne Littlechild]], Susan Pearson, [[William Pimlott]], [[Stephen Quilter]] and John Tomlinson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx?XXR=0&AC=WARD&WID=12979&sPC=Enter+postcode|title=Find Member|date=6 March 2022|website=democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk}}</ref>

In the 2017 City-wide Common Council elections, the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] won two seats in Cripplegate ward with local residents Mary Durcan and William Pimlott making Labour gains.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/voting-elections/Documents/notice-of-persons-elected-2017.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=7 January 2019 |archive-date=9 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109022948/https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/voting-elections/Documents/notice-of-persons-elected-2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Labour Party won a record total of five seats on the Common Council in March 2017 winning two seats in [[Portsoken]], two seats in Cripplegate ward and one seat in [[Aldersgate]] ward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-city-of-london-election-vote-independence-jeremy-corbyn-a7649221.html|title=Labour wins record five seats in historic City of London election victory|date=24 March 2017|website=The Independent}}</ref>

Following a boundary change in 1994, the [[Golden Lane Estate]] was transferred from [[London Borough of Islington|Islington]] to the City, and so Cripplegate is today the most populous of the four residential wards of the City, with a population of 2,782 (2011).