The placeConstituency · West Midlands · Electorate 74,048 · 2023 boundaries

Birmingham Northfield.

Labour Party MP Laurence Turner holds the seat on 39.6% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentLaurence Turner · Labour Party
CouncilBirmingham
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001097
Electorate · 2024
74.0k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
39.6%
Labour Party · +14.3pp over Con
Settlements
2
Largest: Birmingham
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
22.0
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

Turner's most distinctive moves in Parliament have come on assisted dying. On 20 June 2025 he broke from the Labour majority on five separate votes on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill -- backing amendments to tighten the bill's safeguards, including provisions to close a loophole that could have allowed voluntary starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill. His voting pattern on the bill sits roughly 20 percentage points above his party's average on both end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, suggesting he supports the bill's principle but wanted stronger protections built in. Beyond the chamber, he has championed a Private Member's Bill on criminal injuries compensation, drawing on his own experience of the system's failures, and has publicly pushed for accountability over sexual assaults on rail networks.

At 88% voting participation and 97.4% party alignment, Turner is engaged and broadly loyal. His speeches -- nearly 400 contributions across 174 debates -- concentrate heavily on economy and jobs, the labour market, social care, and local government, with a significant cluster on transport. His stance profile flags strong alignment with workers' rights (90%) and progressive taxation (97%), but low scores on pro-business (14%) and parliamentary scrutiny (9%) measures. He deviates from Labour colleagues by scoring lower on civil liberties and disability benefits votes. His membership of the Transport Committee shapes a chunk of his activity.

Turner has represented Birmingham Northfield since the July 2024 general election. His personal background -- he has spoken publicly about being a "SEND kid" -- appears to inform his local advocacy, which includes securing funding for Frankley Hill specialist school. News coverage over the past 90 days spans 181 articles across crime, transport, and local government, though average sentiment scores are neutral, limiting further inference. No formal biographical data on prior career is available in the underlying dataset.

39.6%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
7
Wards · 8 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.7 wards · 8 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Allens Cross Eddie Freeman949Birmingham RefMay 2026
Frankley Great Park Gemma Louise Guttridge1,192Birmingham RefMay 2026
Kings Norton North Martin Derek Smith1,082Birmingham RefMay 2026
Kings Norton South Robert Andrew Grant1,725Birmingham RefMay 2026
Longbridge West Heath(2 seats)Ward · Latchford4,493Birmingham RefMay 2026
Northfield George Hall1,317Birmingham RefMay 2026
Rubery Rednal Rebecca Michelle Waters943Birmingham RefMay 2026

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 02Settlements.2 named places

The seat’s population is concentrated in Birmingham (107,365), with Rural & dispersed (1,488) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 108,853.

city 107,365village 1,488

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Birmingham107,365city
Rural & dispersed1,488village
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate53.6%57.1%-6%
Owner-occupied57.1%63.1%-10%
Private rented14.9%20.0%-25%
Social rented27.5%16.8%+64%

Ethnicity.

White77.7%
Asian6.5%
Black7.5%
Mixed6.0%
Other2.4%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 47.7% Female 52.3% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£25,300
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£30,700
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,025
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
49
32 primary · 6 secondary
GCSE pass
59.0%
Attainment 8: 42.7

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£172m
Taxpayers47,000
Median per taxpayer£2,360
Mean per taxpayer£3,690

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

This constituency is served by Birmingham. 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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§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk · 12-month rolling

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
22.0
+6% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
7.3
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
48% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences10.5
Vehicle crime2.0
Criminal damage & arson1.8
Shoplifting1.5
Public order1.4
Burglary1.0
Other theft1.0

Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop

Showing 7 of 15·All 15 categories — full monthly trend & settlement breakdown
§ 06Election history.5 contests · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Laurence TurnerWONLab14,92939.6
Gary SambrookCon9,54025.3
Stephen PetersRef7,89521.0
Robert GrantGrn2,8097.5
Jerry EvansLD1,7914.8
Altaf HussainInd3100.8
Dick RodgersInd2150.6
Dean GwilliamInd1630.4

Turnout 37,652

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Gary SambrookCon46.3
2017Richard BurdenLab53.2
2015Richard BurdenLab41.6
2010Burden, RichardLab40.3
Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
SchoolsDfE · attainment data
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission