Coventry East.
Labour Party MP Mary Creagh holds the seat on 49.5% of the vote.
2 Jun 2026
Creagh is best known right now as Nature Minister -- a government role confirmed by her leading wildlife conservation announcements in early 2026 -- but her most distinctive parliamentary moment came on 20 June 2025, when she broke with the Labour majority four times on the assisted dying bill. She voted against Third Reading, rejecting the bill in its final Commons form, and opposed two amendments that would have excluded voluntary stopping of eating and drinking from the terminal illness criteria. Her stance puts her among the minority of Labour MPs who scored higher than the party average on both end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, suggesting she backed stronger protections rather than opposing the bill outright.
Her participation rate of 65% sits below the Commons average, which is partly explained by ministerial duties -- frontbenchers often miss procedural votes. Where she does vote, she follows the Labour line 96% of the time. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights, progressive taxation, and housing development, but she scores notably below the party average on immigration control and NHS funding votes. Her 249 speech contributions span environment, local government, agriculture, and crime -- consistent with her ministerial brief and earlier local advocacy, including championing faster Coventry-Leicester rail links and meeting the Police Federation.
Outside the chamber, her news coverage over the past 90 days runs heavily to environment stories (33 articles, averaging a positive sentiment score), reflecting her ministerial role. Earlier coverage flagged specific constituency work: citing figures on child poverty in Coventry East and backing the two-child benefit cap removal. She sits on no select committees, standard for a minister. Speech data runs to March 2026; voting data extends to May 2026.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binley Willenhall | Christine Thomas | 1,478 | Coventry Lab | May 2024 |
| Foleshill | Shakila Nazir | 2,027 | Coventry Lab | May 2024 |
| Henley | Ed Ruane | 2,234 | Coventry Lab | May 2024 |
| Longford | George Duggins | 2,289 | Coventry Lab | May 2024 |
| Upper Stoke | Kamran Asif Caan | 2,049 | Coventry Lab | May 2024 |
| Wyken | Angela Hopkins | 1,682 | Coventry Lab | May 2024 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Coventry (117,045), with Rural & dispersed (1,262) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 118,307.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Coventry | 117,045 | city |
| Rural & dispersed | 1,262 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 56.0% | 57.1% | -2% |
| Owner-occupied | 53.0% | 63.1% | -16% |
| Private rented | 22.5% | 20.0% | +13% |
| Social rented | 24.3% | 16.8% | +45% |
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 | £181m |
| Taxpayers | 54,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,230 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £3,340 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Coventry. 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 | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary CreaghWON | Lab | 18,308 | 49.5 |
| Iddrisu Sufyan | Ref | 6,685 | 18.1 |
| Sarah Lesadd | Con | 6,240 | 16.9 |
| Stephen Gray | Grn | 2,730 | 7.4 |
| Mike Massimi | LD | 1,227 | 3.3 |
| Paul Bedson | Ind | 1,027 | 2.8 |
| Dave Nellist | Ind | 797 | 2.1 |
Turnout 37,014
Prior contests.
Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.
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