The placeConstituency · East Midlands · Electorate 69,917 · 2023 boundaries

Mid Derbyshire.

Labour Party MP Jonathan Davies holds the seat on 36.5% of the vote — a split-council geography across 3 councils.

Member of ParliamentJonathan Davies · Labour Party
CouncilsAmber Valley · Derby · Erewash
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001362
Electorate · 2024
69.9k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
36.5%
Labour Party · +4.0pp over Con
Settlements
7
Largest: Derby
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
12.6
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

36.5%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
3
Councils overlapping the seat
12
Wards · 30 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.12 wards · 30 councillors · 3 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
Allestree(3 seats)Potter · Morgan-McGeehan · Hassall6,688Derby LabMay 2023
Alport South West Parishes(2 seats)Taylor · Orton1,714Amber Valley LabMay 2023
Belper East(3 seats)Atkinson · Porter · Hill2,796Amber Valley LabMay 2023
Belper North(2 seats)Bellamy · Monkman1,446Amber Valley LabMay 2023
Belper South(2 seats)Kinsella · Walls1,616Amber Valley LabMay 2023
Chaddesden North(2 seats)Wilson · Hudson1,187Derby LabMay 2023
Duffield Quarndon(2 seats)McDermott · Long3,265Amber Valley LabMay 2023
Little Eaton Stanley(2 seats)Eddy · Revill1,205Erewash ConMay 2023
Oakwood(3 seats)Trewhella · Mulhall · Eyre6,281Derby LabMay 2023
Ockbrook Borrowash(3 seats)Maskalick · White · Locke2,279Erewash ConMay 2023
Spondon(3 seats)Poulter · Smale · Roulstone4,789Derby LabMay 2023
West Hallam Dale Abbey(3 seats)Hart · Flatley · Mee2,798Erewash ConMay 2023

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

§ 02Settlements.7 named places

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.

city 40,901town 41,967village 5,133

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Derby40,901city
Belper19,635town
Rural & dispersed10,100town
Borrowash7,167town
Makeney5,065town
West Hallam3,369village
Showing 6 of 7·All 7 settlements
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate56.8%57.1%-1%
Owner-occupied80.0%63.1%+27%
Private rented12.8%20.0%-36%
Social rented7.2%16.8%-57%

Ethnicity.

White95.2%
Asian1.9%
Black0.7%
Mixed1.8%
Other0.4%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.6% Female 51.4% 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
£29,100
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£38,800
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,855
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
35
29 primary · 4 secondary
GCSE pass
73.4%
Attainment 8: 48.8

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£279m
Taxpayers45,000
Median per taxpayer£2,940
Mean per taxpayer£6,160

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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.

For household tax breakdown

Move the income slider on My place to see income tax, NI, VAT and council tax against your earnings — the household lens.

§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk · 12-month rolling

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
12.6
-39% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
4.2
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
44% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences5.5
Anti-social behaviour1.6
Shoplifting1.1
Vehicle crime0.8
Criminal damage & arson0.8
Other theft0.8
Public order0.7

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%
Jonathan DaviesWONLab17,34636.5
Luke GardinerCon15,46832.5
Stephen DeanRef8,35617.6
Gez KinsellaGrn3,5477.5
Barry HollidayLD2,3615.0
Sue WarrenInd3150.7
Josiah UcheInd1500.3

Turnout 47,543

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Pauline LathamCon58.8
2017Pauline LathamCon58.6
2015Pauline LathamCon52.2
2010Latham, PaulineCon48.3
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