The placeConstituency · West Midlands · Electorate 75,773 · 2023 boundaries

Coventry East.

Labour Party MP Mary Creagh holds the seat on 49.5% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentMary Creagh · Labour Party
CouncilCoventry
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001180
Electorate · 2024
75.8k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
49.5%
Labour Party · +31.4pp over Ref
Settlements
2
Largest: Coventry
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
26.1
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

49.5%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
6
Wards · 6 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.6 wards · 6 councillors

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

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Binley Willenhall Christine Thomas1,478Coventry LabMay 2024
Foleshill Shakila Nazir2,027Coventry LabMay 2024
Henley Ed Ruane2,234Coventry LabMay 2024
Longford George Duggins2,289Coventry LabMay 2024
Upper Stoke Kamran Asif Caan2,049Coventry LabMay 2024
Wyken Angela Hopkins1,682Coventry LabMay 2024

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

§ 02Settlements.2 named places

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.

city 117,045village 1,262

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Coventry117,045city
Rural & dispersed1,262village
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate56.0%57.1%-2%
Owner-occupied53.0%63.1%-16%
Private rented22.5%20.0%+13%
Social rented24.3%16.8%+45%

Ethnicity.

White60.8%
Asian20.3%
Black11.5%
Mixed3.6%
Other3.8%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 49.4% Female 50.6% 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
£24,800
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£29,200
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
3,125
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
48
35 primary · 8 secondary
GCSE pass
62.1%
Attainment 8: 43.2

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£181m
Taxpayers54,000
Median per taxpayer£2,230
Mean per taxpayer£3,340

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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.

For household tax breakdown

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

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
26.1
+26% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
8.7
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
42% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences10.9
Shoplifting2.9
Vehicle crime2.4
Criminal damage & arson2.2
Other theft1.4
Public order1.4
Burglary1.2

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.1 contest · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Mary CreaghWONLab18,30849.5
Iddrisu SufyanRef6,68518.1
Sarah LesaddCon6,24016.9
Stephen GrayGrn2,7307.4
Mike MassimiLD1,2273.3
Paul BedsonInd1,0272.8
Dave NellistInd7972.1

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
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