Constituency profile

Bristol North East

South West · Borough constituency

Damien Egan MP
Sitting MP

Damien Egan

Labour

First elected February 2024

Current PollCheck projection

Region & type
South West
Borough constituency
Last 5 GE winners
LLLLL
Labour 5/5
EU referendum 2016
48.6% Leave
UK average 51.9%; -3.3pp below mean
Current outlook
Labour +10.6pp
vs Green 24.8%
SouthernBrexit-marginal

About the Bristol North East constituency

Bristol North East is a borough constituency in the South West. The sitting MP is Damien Egan (Labour), first elected in February 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 45.3% to 18.7% for the Greens, a majority of 11,167 votes on a 59.9% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 35.4% and the Greens on 24.8%, a margin of 10.6 points.

Who lives in Bristol North East? Constituency demographics

From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.

Leave vote 2016
48.6%
UK average ~52%
Degree or above
31.9%
UK average ~34%
No qualifications
18.1%
UK average ~18%
Owner-occupied
60.3%
UK average ~63%
Renting (social + private)
38.4%
UK average ~36%
Median age
36.9
UK median ~40
Age 65+
18.8%
UK average ~19%
Age 18-34
35.4%
UK average ~28%

How did Bristol North East vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?

2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.

2024 general election

Lab hold · majority 11,167 votes (26.6pp) · turnout 59.9%

Current projection

If a general election were held today, at current poll average

Map of Bristol North East

Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from the 2021 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›

Council layer (not Westminster)

Bristol North East within Bristol, City of and South Gloucestershire

Bristol North East crosses council boundaries: Bristol, City of (52%), South Gloucestershire (48%). None of the constituent councils were due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results available. About this layer ›

Council overlap

CouncilShare of seat
Bristol, City of
29 LSOAs
52%
South Gloucestershire
27 LSOAs
48%

Recent council by-elections

Council ward by-elections held inside this seat, most recent first. The result column shows which party won; the share column shows the top three parties’ vote shares on the day.

DateWardResultTop 3 vote shares
5 Jul 2024Kingswood
South Gloucestershire
Lab HOLD
9 May 2024New Cheltenham
South Gloucestershire
Lab HOLD

Most recent council ward results

Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent available result. How this table is sourced ›

Ward GE2024 winner Latest council winner Shift since GE2024 Turnout
EastvilleLabour 47.4%vs Green 23.6%2024 Green 53.5%vs Labour 34.6%-40.9%
Frome ValeLabour 47.3%vs Conservative 16.9%2024 Labour 46.5%vs Green 27.6%-32.5%
HillfieldsLabour 48.9%vs Green 16.4%2024 Labour 51.0%vs Green 28.1%-26.3%
KingswoodLabour 41.1%vs Green 17.6%2023 Labour 58.8%vs Conservative 27.9%-24.8%
LockleazeLabour 45.5%vs Green 24.4%2024 Green 53.4%vs Labour 33.2%-32.6%
New CheltenhamLabour 41.7%vs Conservative 18.4%2023 Labour 54.1%vs Conservative 35.5%-27.4%
Staple Hill & MangotsfieldLabour 45.6%vs Green 17.2%2023 Labour 70.4%vs Conservative 21.1%-31.8%
WoodstockLabour 41.0%vs Green 16.9%2023 Labour 55.7%vs Conservative 28.9%-24.5%

Projection trajectory

PollCheck's projection for Bristol North East at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.

Who has won Bristol North East at past general elections?

2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›

Year Result MP Lab Con LD Right (Ref/UKIP) Green Other Majority Turnout
2010predecessorLab holdKerry McCarthy Bristol East MP36.6%28.3%24.4%3.4% UKIP1.8%5.5%3,72264.8%
2015predecessorLab holdKerry McCarthy Bristol East MP39.3%30.7%5.8%15.5% UKIP8.3%0.5%3,98064.9%+0.1
2017predecessorLab holdKerry McCarthy Bristol East MP60.7%34.4%2.7%-2.2%-13,39470.1%+5.2
2019notionalLabour winnerKerry McCarthy Bristol East MP, pre-review boundary50.3%39.1%5.1%-4.0%1.5%5,46470.1%
2024Lab holdDamien Egan45.3%14.8%4.7%12.9% Ref18.7%3.7%11,16759.9%-10.2

Bristol North East was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Bristol East (the seat that covered most of this area), so vote shares and majorities aren’t directly comparable to the post-2024 figures.

Constituencies most like Bristol North East

Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Bristol North East. Politics shown for context.

What would change this seat?

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Related

Sources

Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›

Show full source list
  • 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
  • Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
  • Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
  • Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
  • May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
  • Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
  • Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
  • EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
  • MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
  • Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
  • Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic swingometer applied to the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls. Not a true MRP - vote-share movements are applied through per-constituency sensitivity multipliers derived from demographic regressions.

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