Chelsea and Fulham.
Labour Party MP Ben Coleman holds the seat on 39.4% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.
1 Jun 2026
Chelsea and Fulham's MP is best known as the politician who unseated long-serving Conservative Greg Hands by just 152 votes in 2024 -- the slimmest Labour majority in London that night. Since then, Ben Coleman has made his clearest independent mark on the assisted dying debate. In June 2025 he voted five times against his party's majority position on the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, backing amendments that would have closed a loophole allowing voluntary starvation to qualify someone as terminally ill, and supporting procedural moves to extend safeguards around independent medical assessments. On most other votes, however, he is a 97% party-line MP.
His participation rate of 73% sits below the Commons average. In the chamber, he votes consistently for workers' rights and progressive taxation, while sitting at the sceptical end of his party on welfare expansion (41% aligned) and criminal justice reform (62% aligned). He deviates most sharply from Labour colleagues on pension protection -- voting 100% aligned versus a party average of 43% -- and has spoken across 78 debates, with economy and jobs, health, and social care dominating his contributions. He sits on the Health and Social Care Committee, which explains the breadth of his health-related activity.
On constituency work, coverage has been positive: he campaigned successfully to keep Chelsea's last Post Office open (gathering 1,500 signatures and meeting ministers directly), and pushed Transport for London to shortlist Putney Bridge station for an accessibility study. Local news over the past 90 days has centred on housing and transport -- 39 of 79 articles between those two topics alone -- though the sentiment scores for that period are broadly neutral rather than strongly positive or negative.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelsea Riverside(3 seats) | Bellara · Burns · Chauhan | 3,057 | Kensington and Chelsea Con | May 2026 |
| Fulham Reach(3 seats) | Magryta-Urban · Campbell · Souslous | 4,430 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Fulham Town(2 seats) | Downer-Sanderson · Brocklebank-Fowler | 1,896 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Lillie(2 seats) | Paynter · Holder | 1,366 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Munster(3 seats) | Alford · Stanton · Waine | 3,924 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Palace Hurlingham(3 seats) | Afzal-Khan · Lloyd-Harris · Maddocks | 5,961 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Parsons Green Sandford(2 seats) | Pascu-Tulbure · Afonso | 2,213 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Redcliffe(3 seats) | Rossi · Yankson · Bennett | 3,699 | Kensington and Chelsea Con | May 2026 |
| Royal Hospital(3 seats) | Kemahli · Campbell · Will | 4,748 | Kensington and Chelsea Con | May 2026 |
| Sands End(3 seats) | Hart · Harris · Meacher | 2,854 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| Stanley(3 seats) | Rendall · Taylor-Smith · Pascall | 4,053 | Kensington and Chelsea Con | May 2026 |
| Walham Green(2 seats) | Nwaogbe · Kelly | 1,461 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
| West Kensington(3 seats) | Brown · Chevoppe-Verdier · Brignell | 2,870 | Hammersmith and Fulham Lab | May 2026 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Hammersmith and Fulham (87,366), with Kensington and Chelsea (35,202) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 122,568.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 87,366 | city |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 35,202 | city |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 62.9% | 57.1% | +10% |
| Owner-occupied | 37.1% | 63.1% | -41% |
| Private rented | 38.6% | 20.0% | +93% |
| Social rented | 24.1% | 16.8% | +44% |
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 | £3160m |
| Taxpayers | 68,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £5,350 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £46,700 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea. 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.
Move the income slider on My place to see income tax, NI, VAT and council tax against your earnings — the household lens.
Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben ColemanWON | Lab | 18,556 | 39.4 |
| Greg Hands | Con | 18,404 | 39.1 |
| Blaise Baquiche | LD | 3,611 | 7.7 |
| Anthony Goodwin | Ref | 3,144 | 6.7 |
| Mona Crocker | Grn | 2,798 | 5.9 |
| Sabi Patwary | Ind | 538 | 1.1 |
| David Poulden | Ind | 65 | 0.1 |
Turnout 47,116
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Greg Hands | Con | 49.9 |
| 2017 | Greg Hands | Con | 52.6 |
| 2015 | Greg Hands | Con | 63.0 |
| 2010 | Hands, Greg | Con | 60.5 |
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