The placeConstituency · South East · Electorate 73,523 · 2023 boundaries

Gillingham and Rainham.

Labour Party MP Naushabah Khan holds the seat on 37.8% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentNaushabah Khan · Labour Party
CouncilMedway
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001246
Electorate · 2024
73.5k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
37.8%
Labour Party · +9.7pp over Con
Settlements
2
Largest: Gillingham (Medway)
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
24.4
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

37.8%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
7
Wards · 16 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.7 wards · 16 councillors

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

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Gillingham South Liubov Nestorova706Medway LabFeb 2025
Hempstead Wigmore(2 seats)Lawrence · Gilbourne3,326Medway LabMay 2023
Rainham North(3 seats)Perfect · Anang · Spring3,472Medway LabMay 2023
Rainham South East(3 seats)Hackwell · Doe · Barrett4,333Medway LabMay 2023
Rainham South West(2 seats)Kemp · Joy2,204Medway LabMay 2023
Twydall(2 seats)Browne · Prenter1,836Medway LabMay 2023
Watling(3 seats)Stamp · Nestorov · Coombs5,798Medway LabMay 2023

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

§ 02Settlements.2 named places

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.

city 100,416village 1,903

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Gillingham (Medway)100,416city
Rural & dispersed1,903village
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate58.4%57.1%+2%
Owner-occupied68.0%63.1%+8%
Private rented21.4%20.0%+7%
Social rented10.5%16.8%-37%

Ethnicity.

White84.3%
Asian6.3%
Black5.3%
Mixed2.8%
Other1.3%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.7% Female 51.3% 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
£28,200
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£35,800
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,580
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
34
23 primary · 6 secondary
GCSE pass
59.4%
Attainment 8: 43.7

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£285m
Taxpayers55,000
Median per taxpayer£2,860
Mean per taxpayer£5,220

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

This constituency is served by Medway. 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
24.4
+18% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
8.1
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
39% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences9.5
Anti-social behaviour4.1
Criminal damage & arson2.2
Shoplifting1.7
Other theft1.5
Public order1.2
Vehicle crime1.1

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%
Naushabah KhanWONLab15,56237.8
Rehman ChishtiCon11,59028.2
Rizvi RawoofRef8,79221.4
Kate BelmonteGrn2,3185.6
Stuart BourneLD2,2485.5
Peter CookInd3440.8
Roger PeacockInd1750.4
Peter WheelerInd1110.3

Turnout 41,140

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Rehman ChishtiCon61.3
2017Rehman ChishtiCon55.4
2015Rehman ChishtiCon48.0
2010Chishti, RehmanCon46.2
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