Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes.
Labour Party MP Melanie Onn holds the seat on 41.9% of the vote.
2 Jun 2026
A 99.7% party-line voter with one notable exception: Onn broke with Labour in December 2024 to vote against introducing proportional representation for UK elections -- a rare cross-party rebel moment that puts her to Labour's right on constitutional reform. Her recent news coverage is largely positive, centred on local advocacy: opposing a bus lane extension she warned would harm Cleethorpes businesses, welcoming playground funding she had personally pushed for, and championing road safety reform after a local tragedy. Grimsby Live covers her regularly and the tone is broadly favourable.
Her parliamentary participation sits at 74%, modestly below the Commons average. She votes consistently for progressive taxation and workers' rights, and has not once backed positions favouring employer NI cuts or Lords scrutiny powers. Her stance scores show she is notably tougher on crime than the Labour average -- 29 percentage points above it -- and more willing than most Labour MPs to override Lords amendments. Her 203 contributions across 128 debates are spread across economy and jobs, energy, local government, social care, and the environment, reflecting both her constituency's industrial character and her seat on the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee.
That committee role helps explain the volume of energy-related speeches: Grimsby and Cleethorpes sits at the heart of the Humber's offshore wind and hydrogen industries, and Onn has consistently framed energy policy in terms of local jobs. She was also the MP for Great Grimsby from 2015 to 2019 before losing the seat, giving her deeper local roots than most first-term MPs. Voting and speech data are available from July 2024; news sentiment data covers the past 90 days.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croft Baker | Oliver Daniel William Freeston | 1,539 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| East Marsh | Steve Beasant | 675 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| Freshney | Karen Ann Batson | 939 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| Haverstoe | Samuel James Grice | 1,756 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| Heneage | Ingrid Oliver | 1,064 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| Park | Nige Oliver | 1,214 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| Sidney Sussex | Bob Callison | 1,161 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| South | Paul David Batson | 1,081 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| West Marsh | Tanya Brasted | 574 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
| Yarborough | John Robert Mills | 1,272 | North East Lincolnshire Ref | May 2026 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Grimsby (73,551), with Cleethorpes (29,670) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 107,436.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | 73,551 | city |
| Cleethorpes | 29,670 | large town |
| Humberston and New Waltham | 2,950 | town |
| Rural & dispersed | 1,265 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 53.4% | 57.1% | -7% |
| Owner-occupied | 56.5% | 63.1% | -10% |
| Private rented | 27.6% | 20.0% | +38% |
| Social rented | 15.8% | 16.8% | -6% |
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 | £152m |
| Taxpayers | 45,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,180 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £3,400 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by North East Lincolnshire. 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 | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie OnnWON | Lab | 15,336 | 41.9 |
| Oliver Freeston | Ref | 10,533 | 28.8 |
| Lia Nici | Con | 8,269 | 22.6 |
| Ed Fraser | Grn | 1,115 | 3.0 |
| John Lawson | LD | 1,036 | 2.8 |
| Mark Gee | Ind | 222 | 0.6 |
| Christopher Stephenson | Ind | 108 | 0.3 |
Turnout 36,619
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