Gillingham and Rainham.
Labour Party MP Naushabah Khan holds the seat on 37.8% of the vote.
2 Jun 2026
Twice opposing her own party on assisted dying -- at Second Reading in November 2024 and again at Third Reading in June 2025 -- Khan is one of a minority of Labour MPs who voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at both stages. Those are her only two rebel votes in nearly two years; on virtually everything else she votes with Labour, hitting 99.5% party alignment. Outside Parliament, she has made a visible mark on local housing policy, lobbying Medway Council to tighten controls on houses in multiple occupation and winning credit for proposing a licensing scheme that the council is now fast-tracking. She also secured a banking hub for Rainham after NatWest closed its branch there.
Her voting participation sits at 79% -- somewhat below the Commons average -- and her record shows a strongly Labour-line pattern: highly aligned on workers' rights and progressive taxation, and consistently opposed to Lords scrutiny of government legislation (0% aligned with pro-Lords-scrutiny positions, 20 percentage points above the party average on overriding the Lords). She is notably less aligned than her party on pension protection, running 26 percentage points below the Labour average on that dimension, and her 56 contributions across 40 debates cover local government, the economy, housing, and health most heavily.
Khan sits on no select committees. Her speech record and news coverage both point to an MP whose specialist energy sits in constituency casework and local planning rather than national legislative scrutiny -- a pattern consistent with her background as a former Medway councillor. Voting data covers the full parliament to date; news sentiment over the most recent 90 days is insufficient to draw conclusions.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gillingham South | Liubov Nestorova | 706 | Medway Lab | Feb 2025 |
| Hempstead Wigmore(2 seats) | Lawrence · Gilbourne | 3,326 | Medway Lab | May 2023 |
| Rainham North(3 seats) | Perfect · Anang · Spring | 3,472 | Medway Lab | May 2023 |
| Rainham South East(3 seats) | Hackwell · Doe · Barrett | 4,333 | Medway Lab | May 2023 |
| Rainham South West(2 seats) | Kemp · Joy | 2,204 | Medway Lab | May 2023 |
| Twydall(2 seats) | Browne · Prenter | 1,836 | Medway Lab | May 2023 |
| Watling(3 seats) | Stamp · Nestorov · Coombs | 5,798 | Medway Lab | May 2023 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Gillingham (Medway) (100,416), with Rural & dispersed (1,903) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 102,319.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Gillingham (Medway) | 100,416 | city |
| Rural & dispersed | 1,903 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 58.4% | 57.1% | +2% |
| Owner-occupied | 68.0% | 63.1% | +8% |
| Private rented | 21.4% | 20.0% | +7% |
| Social rented | 10.5% | 16.8% | -37% |
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 | £285m |
| Taxpayers | 55,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,860 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £5,220 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
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Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naushabah KhanWON | Lab | 15,562 | 37.8 |
| Rehman Chishti | Con | 11,590 | 28.2 |
| Rizvi Rawoof | Ref | 8,792 | 21.4 |
| Kate Belmonte | Grn | 2,318 | 5.6 |
| Stuart Bourne | LD | 2,248 | 5.5 |
| Peter Cook | Ind | 344 | 0.8 |
| Roger Peacock | Ind | 175 | 0.4 |
| Peter Wheeler | Ind | 111 | 0.3 |
Turnout 41,140
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Rehman Chishti | Con | 61.3 |
| 2017 | Rehman Chishti | Con | 55.4 |
| 2015 | Rehman Chishti | Con | 48.0 |
| 2010 | Chishti, Rehman | Con | 46.2 |
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