The placeConstituency · North West · Electorate 70,601 · 2023 boundaries

Warrington North.

Labour Party MP Charlotte Nichols holds the seat on 46.8% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentCharlotte Nichols · Labour Party
CouncilWarrington
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001564
Electorate · 2024
70.6k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
46.8%
Labour Party · +23.0pp over Ref
Settlements
7
Largest: Warrington
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
20.4
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

In March, Nichols made national headlines when she told Parliament she had been raped at a work event -- and used that disclosure to challenge government reforms she argued would harm rape victims. The intervention drew significant attention and led her to publicly criticise Foreign Secretary David Lammy's proposed legal changes, breaking with the usual Labour communications line on the legislation. That moment crystallised what local and national coverage has otherwise reflected: an MP willing to use her platform on crime and justice issues in ways that carry personal weight.

Nichols votes with Labour on every recorded division -- a 100% party-line record across 437 votes -- but her stance profile reveals some texture. She scores strongly on workers' rights (89%) and progressive taxation (97%), but sits notably above her party average on assisted dying access (+19 percentage points). She scores zero on disability benefits votes, 12 points below the Labour average. Her 85% participation rate sits above the Commons average. Speeches cluster around crime, the economy, and social care -- consistent with local priorities -- and she has spoken 66 times across 42 debates since the last election.

Beyond the crime coverage, local reporting credits her with securing £150,000 for Warrington family services and championing the town's nuclear sector as co-chair of the nuclear APPG, hosting ministerial meetings to make the case for the 8,000 jobs it supports locally. She has also publicly backed scrapping the two-child benefit cap. She holds no select committee seat. News sentiment data covering the past 90 days shows 43 articles with the strongest positive coverage concentrated on MP performance and crime -- the latter driven largely by her March parliamentary statement.

46.8%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
10
Wards · 27 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.10 wards · 27 councillors

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

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Birchwood(3 seats)Dhillon · Dhillon · Price4,338Warrington LabMay 2024
Burtonwood Winwick(2 seats)Burgess · Mann1,555Warrington LabMay 2024
Culcheth Glazebury Croft(3 seats)Seddon · Smith · Johnson5,148Warrington LabMay 2024
Fairfield Howley(3 seats)Flaherty · Zaman · Higgins3,487Warrington LabMay 2024
Orford(3 seats)Appleton · Russon · Frith2,968Warrington LabMay 2024
Poplars Hulme(3 seats)Southern · Kerr-Brown · Sudworth2,723Warrington LabMay 2024
Poulton North(3 seats)Friend · Emery · Gillham3,597Warrington LabMay 2024
Poulton South(2 seats)Knowles · Rydzkowski1,666Warrington LabMay 2024
Rixton Woolston(3 seats)Cooksey · Sheridan · Tynan2,829Warrington LabMay 2024
Westbrook(2 seats)Eglinton · Rufus1,771Warrington LabMay 2024

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

§ 02Settlements.7 named places

The seat’s population is concentrated in Warrington (71,580), with Rural & dispersed (9,203) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 96,962.

city 71,580town 15,299village 10,083

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Warrington71,580city
Rural & dispersed9,203town
Culcheth6,096town
Burtonwood3,804village
Winwick2,416village
Hollinfare1,999village
Showing 6 of 7·All 7 settlements
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate58.0%57.1%+2%
Owner-occupied64.6%63.1%+2%
Private rented15.5%20.0%-22%
Social rented19.8%16.8%+18%

Ethnicity.

White94.8%
Asian2.2%
Black0.8%
Mixed1.5%
Other0.7%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 49.7% Female 50.4% 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
£26,800
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£33,800
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
3,250
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
44
32 primary · 5 secondary
GCSE pass
60.8%
Attainment 8: 44.3

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£236m
Taxpayers50,000
Median per taxpayer£2,600
Mean per taxpayer£4,710

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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

Headline rate.

Per 1k pop · 3mo
20.4
-2% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
6.8
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
51% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences10.4
Public order1.8
Anti-social behaviour1.5
Criminal damage & arson1.2
Other theft1.2
Vehicle crime1.1
Shoplifting0.9

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%
Charlotte NicholsWONLab18,73046.8
Trevor NichollsRef9,54023.8
Yasmin Al-AtroshiCon6,48616.2
David CrowtherLD2,7376.8
Hannah SpencerGrn1,8894.7
Maddison WheeldonInd6591.6

Turnout 40,041

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Charlotte NicholsLab44.2
2017Helen JonesLab56.4
2015Helen JonesLab47.8
2010Jones, HelenLab45.5
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