Bermondsey and Old Southwark.
Labour Party MP Neil Coyle holds the seat on 44.8% of the vote.
2 Jun 2026
Coyle's most significant recent parliamentary moment came in June 2025, when he broke with his party five times in a single day on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. All five rebel votes concerned safeguards around eligibility -- most notably, he backed amendments on both sides of procedural divisions to close a potential loophole allowing voluntary starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill. His voting record shows a stronger-than-average Labour alignment on end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, placing him noticeably to the right of his parliamentary colleagues on how the bill should be tightened. Beyond that, he has been a consistent party-line voter at 97.6%, supporting government positions on asylum support rules, pension fund investment powers, and Lords defeats on devolution.
His participation rate of 80% sits around the Commons average. Speeches cluster around the economy, fiscal policy, crime, and social care -- 133 contributions across 53 debates suggests an active rather than passive parliamentary presence. His stance profile marks him as strongly aligned with progressive taxation and workers' rights, but notably resistant to Lords scrutiny and parliamentary oversight mechanisms, and well below the Labour average on climate-related votes. He holds no committee seats.
The context that most shapes how constituents read this record is conduct rather than policy. Coyle was suspended from the Labour Party in 2022 over racist remarks and drunken abuse of journalists and staff, readmitted in 2023, and was removed from a Westminster debate in October 2025 following a confrontation with Lee Anderson. Local news over the past 90 days -- dominated by crime and housing -- has been broadly neutral. His March 2026 constituency column claimed progress on housing and foodbanks, though it offered no independent verification.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borough Bankside(3 seats) | Watson · Benavides · Chamberlain | 2,595 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| Chaucer(3 seats) | Hamer · Mitchell · Wise | 4,277 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| London Bridge West Bermondsey(3 seats) | Noakes · Dalton · Gray | 4,159 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| North Bermondsey(3 seats) | Guerrieri · Obanya · Bentley | 4,325 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| Rotherhithe(3 seats) | Boyle · Whittam · Cryan | 3,913 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| South Bermondsey(3 seats) | Bates · Bah · Lambe | 4,103 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| St Georges(2 seats) | Neale · Usma | 1,409 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
| Surrey Docks(3 seats) | Hood · Salmon · MacMillan | 3,840 | Southwark Lab | May 2026 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Southwark (108,958). Total population across named built-up areas: 108,958.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Southwark | 108,958 | city |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 65.6% | 57.1% | +15% |
| Owner-occupied | 26.1% | 63.1% | -59% |
| Private rented | 35.6% | 20.0% | +78% |
| Social rented | 38.2% | 16.8% | +127% |
Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £1030m |
| Taxpayers | 63,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £4,840 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £16,200 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Southwark. Each council’s service spend, peer rank and supplier list lives on its own page — open from the meta block above or the compass strip below.
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Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil CoyleWON | Lab | 16,857 | 44.8 |
| Rachel Bentley | LD | 9,070 | 24.1 |
| Susan Hunter | Grn | 4,477 | 11.9 |
| Tony Sharp | Ref | 3,397 | 9.0 |
| Jonathan Iliff | Con | 2,879 | 7.7 |
| Piers Corbyn | Ind | 403 | 1.1 |
| Niko Omilana | Ind | 273 | 0.7 |
| Barry Duckett | Ind | 247 | 0.7 |
Turnout 37,603
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Neil Coyle | Lab | 54.1 |
| 2017 | Neil Coyle | Lab | 53.3 |
| 2015 | Neil Coyle | Lab | 43.1 |
| 2010 | Hughes, Simon | LD | 48.4 |
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo