Coventry East
West Midlands · Borough constituency · Coventry borough
About the Coventry East constituency
Coventry East is a borough constituency in the West Midlands. The sitting MP is Mary Creagh (Labour), first elected in July 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 49.5% to 18.1% for Reform UK, a majority of 11,623 votes on a 48.8% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 41.7% and Reform UK on 29.1%, a margin of 12.6 points.
Who lives in Coventry East? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Coventry 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
Current projection
Map of Coventry 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 ›
Coventry East within Coventry
Coventry East sits entirely within Coventry Council. The figures below are from the council elections held on 7 May 2026. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat | Projection |
|---|---|---|
| Coventry | 100% | View projection › |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binley and Willenhall | Labour 44.8%vs Reform 19.4% | May 2026 Reform 41.6%vs Labour 31.0% | Labour→Reform +18.0pp | - |
| Foleshill | Labour 51.0%vs Reform 16.2% | May 2026 Labour 45.2%vs Green 21.6% | Labour share -5.8pp | - |
| Henley | Labour 51.0%vs Reform 18.2% | May 2026 Reform 35.9%vs Labour 33.0% | Labour→Reform +17.9pp | - |
| Longford | Labour 52.4%vs Reform 18.7% | May 2026 Labour 35.1%vs Reform 34.8% | Labour share -17.3pp | - |
| Upper Stoke | Labour 50.1%vs Reform 18.7% | May 2026 Labour 37.3%vs Reform 32.3% | Labour share -12.8pp | - |
| Wyken | Labour 47.5%vs Conservative 21.6% | May 2026 Reform 39.0%vs Labour 30.4% | Labour→Reform +19.6pp | - |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Coventry East at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Coventry 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 | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Lab hold | Bob Ainsworth Coventry North East MP | 49.3% | 22.1% | 16.6% | 11,775 | 59.4% |
| 2015predecessor | Lab hold | Colleen Fletcher Coventry North East MP | 52.2% | 23.1% | 4.8% | 12,274 | 56.0%-3.4 |
| 2017predecessor | Lab hold | Colleen Fletcher Coventry North East MP | 63.4% | 29.9% | 2.5% | 15,580 | 61.4%+5.4 |
| 2019notional | Labour winner | Colleen Fletcher Coventry North East MP, pre-review boundary | 52.1% | 35.0% | 5.4% | 7,288 | 58.2% |
| 2024 | Lab hold | Mary Creagh | 49.5% | 16.9% | 3.3% | 11,623 | 48.8%-9.4 |
Coventry East was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Coventry North 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 Coventry East
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Coventry East. Politics shown for context.
- ↓Owner-occupied52.8 / 51.9vs 61.9
- ↓Graduate26.2 / 24.3vs 33.7
- ↑No quals24.3 / 26.4vs 18.0
- ↓Owner-occupied52.8 / 52.2vs 61.9
- ↓Graduate26.2 / 25.4vs 33.7
- ↑No quals24.3 / 25.0vs 18.0
- ↓Owner-occupied52.8 / 56.5vs 61.9
- ↑Under 3534.7 / 34.6vs 30.2
- ↑No quals24.3 / 21.6vs 18.0
- ↓Owner-occupied52.8 / 48.0vs 61.9
- ↓Graduate26.2 / 26.9vs 33.7
- ↑No quals24.3 / 25.5vs 18.0
- ↓Owner-occupied52.8 / 52.6vs 61.9
- ↓Graduate26.2 / 23.6vs 33.7
- ↑No quals24.3 / 25.4vs 18.0
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 ›
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- 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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