Mid Derbyshire.
Labour Party MP Jonathan Davies holds the seat on 36.5% of the vote — a split-council geography across 3 councils.
3 Jun 2026
Five rebel votes -- all on the assisted dying bill -- mark Jonathan Davies out from most of his Labour colleagues. On 20 June 2025, he voted consistently to tighten the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill's safeguards, backing amendments to close the voluntary starvation loophole and supporting procedural moves that the Labour majority rejected. His votes put him notably above the party average on both end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, suggesting a considered rather than opportunistic position on the legislation.
Beyond that cluster, Davies is a 96.8% party-line voter and broadly active: his 84% participation rate is solid for a first-term MP. He speaks most frequently on economy and jobs, local government, defence, social care, and cost of living -- a mix reflecting both national Labour priorities and constituency pressures. His stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation, but he diverges from the party in consistently backing government moves to override Lords amendments, sitting at 0% alignment on Lords scrutiny across 28 votes.
Davies sits on the Environmental Audit Committee and the Backbench Business Committee. His local coverage -- engaging with unpaid carers, youth outreach, a construction dust dispute, and a flooded rugby club -- paints a picture of active constituency work, though local news sentiment averages close to neutral across 82 articles in the past 90 days, with crime dominating coverage without positive or negative signal. He has been an MP since July 2024, so his parliamentary record is still relatively short; the assisted dying votes remain his most distinctive deviation from the Labour whip to date.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allestree(3 seats) | Potter · Morgan-McGeehan · Hassall | 6,688 | Derby Lab | May 2023 |
| Alport South West Parishes(2 seats) | Taylor · Orton | 1,714 | Amber Valley Lab | May 2023 |
| Belper East(3 seats) | Atkinson · Porter · Hill | 2,796 | Amber Valley Lab | May 2023 |
| Belper North(2 seats) | Bellamy · Monkman | 1,446 | Amber Valley Lab | May 2023 |
| Belper South(2 seats) | Kinsella · Walls | 1,616 | Amber Valley Lab | May 2023 |
| Chaddesden North(2 seats) | Wilson · Hudson | 1,187 | Derby Lab | May 2023 |
| Duffield Quarndon(2 seats) | McDermott · Long | 3,265 | Amber Valley Lab | May 2023 |
| Little Eaton Stanley(2 seats) | Eddy · Revill | 1,205 | Erewash Con | May 2023 |
| Oakwood(3 seats) | Trewhella · Mulhall · Eyre | 6,281 | Derby Lab | May 2023 |
| Ockbrook Borrowash(3 seats) | Maskalick · White · Locke | 2,279 | Erewash Con | May 2023 |
| Spondon(3 seats) | Poulter · Smale · Roulstone | 4,789 | Derby Lab | May 2023 |
| West Hallam Dale Abbey(3 seats) | Hart · Flatley · Mee | 2,798 | Erewash Con | May 2023 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Derby (40,901), with Belper (19,635) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 88,001.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Derby | 40,901 | city |
| Belper | 19,635 | town |
| Rural & dispersed | 10,100 | town |
| Borrowash | 7,167 | town |
| Makeney | 5,065 | town |
| West Hallam | 3,369 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 56.8% | 57.1% | -1% |
| Owner-occupied | 80.0% | 63.1% | +27% |
| Private rented | 12.8% | 20.0% | -36% |
| Social rented | 7.2% | 16.8% | -57% |
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 | £279m |
| Taxpayers | 45,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,940 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £6,160 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Amber Valley, Derby and Erewash. 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 | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan DaviesWON | Lab | 17,346 | 36.5 |
| Luke Gardiner | Con | 15,468 | 32.5 |
| Stephen Dean | Ref | 8,356 | 17.6 |
| Gez Kinsella | Grn | 3,547 | 7.5 |
| Barry Holliday | LD | 2,361 | 5.0 |
| Sue Warren | Ind | 315 | 0.7 |
| Josiah Uche | Ind | 150 | 0.3 |
Turnout 47,543
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Pauline Latham | Con | 58.8 |
| 2017 | Pauline Latham | Con | 58.6 |
| 2015 | Pauline Latham | Con | 52.2 |
| 2010 | Latham, Pauline | Con | 48.3 |
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