Wolverhampton North East.
Labour Party MP Sureena Brackenridge holds the seat on 42.9% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bushbury South Low Hill | Paul David Sweet | 1,323 | Wolverhampton Lab | May 2024 |
| Fallings Park | Valerie Evans | 1,299 | Wolverhampton Lab | May 2024 |
| Heath Town | Jaspreet Kaur Jaspal | 1,305 | Wolverhampton Lab | May 2024 |
| Short Heath | Josh Whitehouse | 1,093 | Walsall Con | May 2024 |
| Wednesfield North | Mary Bateman | 1,431 | Wolverhampton Lab | May 2024 |
| Wednesfield South | Jacqui Coogan | 1,243 | Wolverhampton Lab | May 2024 |
| Willenhall North | Stacie Elson | 997 | Walsall Con | May 2024 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Wolverhampton | 80,261 | city |
| Willenhall | 24,371 | large town |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 54.1% | 57.1% | -5% |
| Owner-occupied | 58.0% | 63.1% | -8% |
| Private rented | 14.5% | 20.0% | -28% |
| Social rented | 27.3% | 16.8% | +62% |
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 | £158m |
| Taxpayers | 47,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,260 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £3,330 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
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.
Move the income slider on My place to see income tax, NI, VAT and council tax against your earnings — the household lens.
Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sureena BrackenridgeWON | Lab | 14,282 | 42.9 |
| Jane Stevenson | Con | 8,860 | 26.6 |
| Paul Williams | Ref | 7,721 | 23.2 |
| Kwaku Tano-Yeboah | Grn | 1,424 | 4.3 |
| Peter Thornton | LD | 1,002 | 3.0 |
Turnout 33,289
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Jane Stevenson | Con | 51.7 |
| 2017 | Emma Reynolds | Lab | 52.8 |
| 2015 | Emma Reynolds | Lab | 46.1 |
| 2010 | Reynolds, Emma | Lab | 41.4 |
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