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Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West.

Labour Party MP Martin McCluskey holds the seat on 46.9% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.

Member of ParliamentMartin McCluskey · Labour Party
CouncilsInverclyde · Renfrewshire
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000093
Electorate · 2024
70.1k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
46.9%
Labour Party · +15.8pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
2 Jun 2026

McCluskey's most distinctive moves in this parliament have been on assisted dying. On 20 June 2025, he voted against his party on five separate divisions of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill -- supporting amendments to close the voluntary starvation loophole and backing procedural votes Labour opposed. His overall party alignment sits at 97%, so these deviations stand out sharply. His stance profile also shows him running 20 percentage points above the Labour average on both end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, suggesting a considered position rather than a one-off break. On constituency matters, he secured government approval for a £20 million Greenock regeneration plan in March 2026 and has pressed ministers over stalled repairs to the Inverclyde Royal Hospital building.

At Westminster, McCluskey votes in 78% of divisions -- slightly below the Commons average -- and follows his party 97% of the time on most issues. His 254 contributions across 50 debates lean heavily on energy and cost-of-living, which together account for nearly a third of his speeches. His voting record places him firmly behind workers' rights and progressive taxation, and he has voted with the government on every Lords amendment division in the data, putting him at 0% alignment with the pro-Lords-scrutiny position. He sits on no select committees.

Two notable deviations from party colleagues are worth flagging: he votes 24 percentage points below the Labour average on armed forces welfare, and 21 points below on football regulation. Local news coverage over the past 90 days -- 39 articles, predominantly on cost-of-living -- is broadly neutral (average score 0.50). Casework claims suggest active local engagement: his office reported recovering over £164,000 for constituents by late 2025.

46.9%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
2
Councils overlapping the seat
9
Wards · 29 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.9 wards · 29 councillors · 2 councils

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Bishopton Bridge Of Weir Langbank(3 seats)McCulloch · Airlie-Nicolson · MacLaren5,271Renfrewshire IndMay 2022
Houston Crosslee Linwood(4 seats)Dowling · Doig · McGonigle · Innes5,094Renfrewshire IndMay 2022
Inverclyde Central(3 seats)Jackson · McCormick · Armstrong2,320Inverclyde IndMay 2022
Inverclyde East(3 seats)Curley · Wilson · McCabe3,914Inverclyde IndMay 2017
Inverclyde East Central(3 seats)McKenzie · Law · Moran2,279Inverclyde IndMay 2022
Inverclyde North(4 seats)Robertson · Brennan · Brooks · Clocherty3,693Inverclyde IndMay 2022
Inverclyde South(3 seats)Crowther · McGuire · McVey2,593Inverclyde IndMay 2022
Inverclyde South West(3 seats)Nelson · Daisley · Cassidy2,987Inverclyde IndMay 2022
Inverclyde West(3 seats)Quinn · McCluskey · Reynolds3,958Inverclyde IndMay 2022

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

§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ

Ethnicity.

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.2% Female 51.8% 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
£27,400
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£35,400
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
1,820
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£252m
Taxpayers46,000
Median per taxpayer£2,730
Mean per taxpayer£5,480

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

This constituency is served by Inverclyde and Renfrewshire. 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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§ 06Election history.1 contest · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Martin McCluskeyWONLab18,93146.9
Ronnie CowanSNP12,56031.1
Ted RuncimanCon2,8637.1
Simon MooreheadRef2,4766.1
Ross StalkerLD1,2593.1
Iain HamiltonInd1,1732.9
Christopher McElenyInd7231.8
John BurleighInd3650.9

Turnout 40,350

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
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission