The placeConstituency · West Midlands · Electorate 70,715 · 2023 boundaries

Wolverhampton North East.

Labour Party MP Sureena Brackenridge holds the seat on 42.9% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.

Member of ParliamentSureena Brackenridge · Labour Party
CouncilsWolverhampton · Walsall
Boundary set2023
ONS codeE14001594
Electorate · 2024
70.7k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
42.9%
Labour Party · +16.3pp over Con
Settlements
2
Largest: Wolverhampton
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
19.5
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

Brackenridge voted against the assisted dying bill at Third Reading in June 2025, one of her five rebel votes on that legislation -- all cast on the same day. Her position consistently favoured tighter safeguards: she backed amendments to close loopholes around voluntary stopping of eating and drinking, and voted to allow procedural consideration of additional clauses. The bill passed and now sits with the Lords. Otherwise she is a 97.5% party-line voter, backing the government on steel nationalisation, the King's Speech, and tightened asylum support rules.

At 85% voting participation -- slightly above the Commons average -- she is a reasonably active presence. Her speeches concentrate on economy and jobs (her largest topic by volume), local government, education, social care, and health. Her stance profile marks her as strongly pro-workers' rights and progressive taxation, but notably less aligned with the government on business-friendly measures (15%) and parliamentary scrutiny (11%). She deviates most from her Labour peers on end-of-life autonomy (22 percentage points more supportive) and, in the other direction, on anti-sexual-exploitation measures (31 points below the party average).

She sits on the Education Committee, which aligns with education featuring prominently in her speech record. Recent local news coverage over the past 90 days -- spanning 101 articles -- skews toward crime and transport issues in Wolverhampton North East, though none of those articles scored meaningfully against her as an MP, suggesting limited direct coverage of her own actions rather than negative sentiment. Constituency-level economic concerns appear to drive much of her parliamentary output.

42.9%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
2
Councils overlapping the seat
7
Wards · 7 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.7 wards · 7 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
Bushbury South Low Hill Paul David Sweet1,323Wolverhampton LabMay 2024
Fallings Park Valerie Evans1,299Wolverhampton LabMay 2024
Heath Town Jaspreet Kaur Jaspal1,305Wolverhampton LabMay 2024
Short Heath Josh Whitehouse1,093Walsall ConMay 2024
Wednesfield North Mary Bateman1,431Wolverhampton LabMay 2024
Wednesfield South Jacqui Coogan1,243Wolverhampton LabMay 2024
Willenhall North Stacie Elson997Walsall ConMay 2024

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

§ 02Settlements.2 named places

The seat’s population is concentrated in Wolverhampton (80,261), with Willenhall (24,371) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 104,632.

city 80,261large-town 24,371

Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021

SettlementPop.Class
Wolverhampton80,261city
Willenhall24,371large town
§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ
Employment rate54.1%57.1%-5%
Owner-occupied58.0%63.1%-8%
Private rented14.5%20.0%-28%
Social rented27.3%16.8%+62%

Ethnicity.

White72.8%
Asian11.7%
Black8.2%
Mixed5.0%
Other2.3%

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.7% Female 51.2% 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
£24,900
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£29,100
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,480
VAT/PAYE-registered
Schools
50
32 primary · 8 secondary
GCSE pass
52.7%
Attainment 8: 41.2

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£158m
Taxpayers47,000
Median per taxpayer£2,260
Mean per taxpayer£3,330

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

This constituency is served by Wolverhampton and Walsall. 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
19.5
-6% vs national
Monthly avg / 1k
6.5
12-month rolling
Top category
Violence & sexual offences
50% of recorded crime

By category.

Violence & sexual offences9.7
Criminal damage & arson1.8
Shoplifting1.5
Vehicle crime1.5
Other theft1.1
Public order1.0
Anti-social behaviour0.7

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%
Sureena BrackenridgeWONLab14,28242.9
Jane StevensonCon8,86026.6
Paul WilliamsRef7,72123.2
Kwaku Tano-YeboahGrn1,4244.3
Peter ThorntonLD1,0023.0

Turnout 33,289

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Jane StevensonCon51.7
2017Emma ReynoldsLab52.8
2015Emma ReynoldsLab46.1
2010Reynolds, EmmaLab41.4
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