Worthing West.
Labour Party MP Beccy Cooper holds the seat on 40.2% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.
1 Jun 2026
A steady Labour loyalist with a clear local focus, Beccy Cooper has not broken ranks with her party on a single vote since entering Parliament in 2024. Her recent votes follow the government line -- backing tighter asylum support rules, opposing the referral of Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee, and supporting ministers' reserve power to direct pension fund investment. None of these positions diverge from Labour, making her a 100% party-line voter across 386 recorded votes.
Her participation rate of 75% sits below the Commons average, though not unusually so for a first-term MP with active committee responsibilities. Health and social care dominate her speech record -- 39 contributions on health topics out of 110 total -- consistent with her seat on the Health and Social Care Committee. She also speaks frequently on economy and jobs, local government, and fiscal policy. Her voting profile leans strongly toward workers' rights and progressive taxation, while she votes against pro-business positions roughly 87% of the time. She runs notably ahead of her Labour colleagues on local government powers and consumer protection, and somewhat behind them on welfare expansion and pension protection.
Outside the chamber, Cooper has championed constituency causes -- most visibly leading a Westminster Hall event backing Worthing FC's push for promotion reform in the National League. News coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume but low in sentiment signal, dominated by culture, crime, and environment stories rather than coverage of Cooper herself. Some articles in the data are attributed to a neighbouring MP, Tom Rutland, which limits the reliability of the local news picture. Voting data covers her full term since July 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angmering Findon(3 seats) | Worne · Cooper · Bicknell | 3,599 | Arun Con | May 2023 |
| Castle | Lionel Harman | 953 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Central | Natasha Louise Davie | 1,256 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Durrington | Charles John Ellerington James | 793 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| East Preston(3 seats) | Kelly · Bower · Bower | 3,904 | Arun Con | May 2023 |
| Ferring(2 seats) | Turner · Elkins | 1,967 | Arun Con | May 2023 |
| Goring | Jasmine Ariadne Watkins | 1,582 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Heene | Debbie Woudman | 1,014 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Marine | Martin McCabe | 1,295 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Northbrook | Rob Venn | 719 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Salvington | Karen Harman | 1,300 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
| Tarring | Hazel Thorpe | 887 | Worthing Grn | May 2026 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Worthing (76,264), with Rustington (21,159) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 99,948.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Worthing | 76,264 | city |
| Rustington | 21,159 | large town |
| Findon | 1,336 | village |
| Rural & dispersed | 1,189 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 54.5% | 57.1% | -5% |
| Owner-occupied | 70.4% | 63.1% | +12% |
| Private rented | 19.9% | 20.0% | -1% |
| Social rented | 9.7% | 16.8% | -42% |
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 | £313m |
| Taxpayers | 58,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,800 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £5,430 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Worthing and Arun. 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 | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beccy CooperWON | Lab | 20,519 | 40.2 |
| Peter Bottomley | Con | 16,570 | 32.5 |
| Edmund Rooke | Ref | 7,562 | 14.8 |
| Sonya Mallin | Grn | 3,274 | 6.4 |
| Morag Chugg | LD | 2,708 | 5.3 |
| Kathryn Attwood | Ind | 364 | 0.7 |
Turnout 50,997
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Peter Bottomley | Con | 55.8 |
| 2017 | Peter Bottomley | Con | 55.4 |
| 2015 | Peter Bottomley | Con | 51.5 |
| 2010 | Bottomley, Peter | Con | 51.7 |
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