The placeConstituency · London · Electorate 78,468 · 2023 boundaries

Chelsea and Fulham.

Labour Party MP Ben Coleman holds the seat on 39.4% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.

Member of ParliamentBen Coleman · Labour Party
CouncilsHammersmith and Fulham · Kensington and Chelsea
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001160
Electorate · 2024
78.5k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
39.4%
Labour Party · +0.3pp over Con
Settlements
2
Largest: Hammersmith and Fulham
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
28.9
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

39.4%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
2
Councils overlapping the seat
13
Wards · 35 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.13 wards · 35 councillors · 2 councils

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Chelsea Riverside(3 seats)Bellara · Burns · Chauhan3,057Kensington and Chelsea ConMay 2026
Fulham Reach(3 seats)Magryta-Urban · Campbell · Souslous4,430Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Fulham Town(2 seats)Downer-Sanderson · Brocklebank-Fowler1,896Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Lillie(2 seats)Paynter · Holder1,366Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Munster(3 seats)Alford · Stanton · Waine3,924Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Palace Hurlingham(3 seats)Afzal-Khan · Lloyd-Harris · Maddocks5,961Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Parsons Green Sandford(2 seats)Pascu-Tulbure · Afonso2,213Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Redcliffe(3 seats)Rossi · Yankson · Bennett3,699Kensington and Chelsea ConMay 2026
Royal Hospital(3 seats)Kemahli · Campbell · Will4,748Kensington and Chelsea ConMay 2026
Sands End(3 seats)Hart · Harris · Meacher2,854Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
Stanley(3 seats)Rendall · Taylor-Smith · Pascall4,053Kensington and Chelsea ConMay 2026
Walham Green(2 seats)Nwaogbe · Kelly1,461Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026
West Kensington(3 seats)Brown · Chevoppe-Verdier · Brignell2,870Hammersmith and Fulham LabMay 2026

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

§ 02Settlements.2 named places

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.

city 122,568

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Hammersmith and Fulham87,366city
Kensington and Chelsea35,202city
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate62.9%57.1%+10%
Owner-occupied37.1%63.1%-41%
Private rented38.6%20.0%+93%
Social rented24.1%16.8%+44%

Ethnicity.

White70.4%
Asian9.4%
Black7.9%
Mixed6.0%
Other6.3%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 46.3% Female 53.6% 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
£43,000
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£140,000
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
8,480
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
47
22 primary · 8 secondary
GCSE pass
81.9%
Attainment 8: 56.7

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£3160m
Taxpayers68,000
Median per taxpayer£5,350
Mean per taxpayer£46,700

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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.

For household tax breakdown

Move the income slider on My place to see income tax, NI, VAT and council tax against your earnings — the household lens.

§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk · 12-month rolling

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
28.9
+39% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
9.6
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
23% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences6.8
Anti-social behaviour5.9
Other theft2.9
Shoplifting2.7
Vehicle crime2.4
Burglary1.7
Public order1.6

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%
Ben ColemanWONLab18,55639.4
Greg HandsCon18,40439.1
Blaise BaquicheLD3,6117.7
Anthony GoodwinRef3,1446.7
Mona CrockerGrn2,7985.9
Sabi PatwaryInd5381.1
David PouldenInd650.1

Turnout 47,116

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Greg HandsCon49.9
2017Greg HandsCon52.6
2015Greg HandsCon63.0
2010Hands, GregCon60.5
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