Constituency profile

Crawley

South East · Borough constituency · Crawley borough

Peter Lamb MP
Sitting MP

Peter Lamb

Labour

First elected July 2024

Current PollCheck projection

Region & type
South East
Borough constituency, Crawley council
Last 5 GE winners
CCCCL
Conservative 4/5, Labour 1/5
EU referendum 2016
58.4% Leave
UK average 51.9%; +6.5pp above mean
Current outlook
Labour +1.1pp
vs Reform UK 32.7%
SouthernLeave-leaningWorking-class profileDiverse

About the Crawley constituency

Crawley is a borough constituency in the South East. The sitting MP is Peter Lamb (Labour), first elected in July 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 38.2% to 26.8% for the Conservatives, a majority of 5,235 votes on a 60.4% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 33.7% and Reform UK on 32.7%, a margin of 1.1 points.

Who lives in Crawley? Constituency demographics

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

Leave vote 2016
58.4%
UK average ~52%
Degree or above
27.5%
UK average ~34%
No qualifications
17.8%
UK average ~18%
Owner-occupied
55.8%
UK average ~63%
Renting (social + private)
42.7%
UK average ~36%
Median age
37.1
UK median ~40
Age 65+
16.6%
UK average ~19%
Age 18-34
33.4%
UK average ~28%

How did Crawley 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 gain from Con · majority 5,235 votes (11.4pp) · turnout 60.4%

Current projection

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

Map of Crawley

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)

Crawley within Crawley

Crawley sits entirely within Crawley Council. The figures below are from the council elections held on 7 May 2026. In addition, the West Sussex County Council election was held on Thursday 7 May 2026; the county-division results covering this seat are shown below. About this layer ›

Council overlap

CouncilShare of seatProjection
Crawley
67 LSOAs
100%View projection ›

West Sussex County Council election, Thursday 7 May 2026

The county council is a separate tier of local government from the district council and from Westminster. These are the results for the county divisions covering this seat; vote shares are computed from the declared per-candidate ballots.

DivisionWinnerTop 3 vote sharesTurnout
Bewbush & Ifield WestRefRef 36% Lab 27% Con 14%38.1%
BroadfieldLabLab 34% Ref 34% Con 14%37.1%
Langley Green & Ifield EastRefRef 34% Lab 29% Grn 16%40.1%
Maidenbower & WorthRefRef 33% Con 31% Grn 13%48.8%
Northgate & West GreenRefRef 33% Lab 26% Grn 17%37.6%
Pound HillRefRef 32% Con 26% Lab 22%46.7%
Southgate & Gossops GreenRefRef 35% Con 25% Lab 21%44.1%
Three BridgesRefRef 28% Lab 27% Con 23%44.5%
Tilgate & Furnace GreenRefRef 36% Con 28% Lab 18%46.6%

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
Bewbush & North BroadfieldLabour 43.8%vs Conservative 21.8%May 2026 Reform 32.6%vs Labour 30.6%
Labour→Reform
+13.0pp
27.3%
BroadfieldLabour 38.3%vs Conservative 22.3%2024 Labour 54.5%vs Conservative 28.4%-24.3%
Furnace GreenConservative 36.4%vs Labour 34.8%May 2026 Reform 33.9%vs Conservative 28.1%
Conservative→Reform
+14.6pp
49.0%
Gossops Green & North East BroadfieldLabour 41.0%vs Conservative 28.2%2024 Labour 51.6%vs Conservative 31.5%-37.8%
IfieldLabour 40.0%vs Conservative 26.1%May 2026 Reform 39.0%vs Labour 24.9%
Labour→Reform
+17.8pp
41.9%
Langley Green & TushmoreLabour 39.5%vs Conservative 22.8%May 2026 Labour 32.5%vs Reform 29.8%
Labour share
-7.0pp
37.9%
MaidenbowerLabour 30.3%vs Conservative 29.9%May 2026 Reform 35.5%vs Conservative 24.9%
Labour→Reform
+16.8pp
46.9%
Northgate & West GreenLabour 41.6%vs Conservative 22.9%May 2026 Reform 34.1%vs Labour 27.4%
Labour→Reform
+14.6pp
38.9%
Pound Hill North & Forge WoodLabour 34.6%vs Conservative 27.9%May 2026 Reform 31.9%vs Conservative 25.6%
Labour→Reform
+12.6pp
46.4%
Pound Hill South & WorthLabour 34.8%vs Conservative 31.7%May 2026 Reform 30.7%vs Conservative 30.7%
Labour→Reform
+14.8pp
50.0%
SouthgateLabour 40.4%vs Conservative 26.4%May 2026 Reform 33.6%vs Conservative 25.7%
Labour→Reform
+15.9pp
42.3%
Three BridgesLabour 40.5%vs Conservative 26.5%May 2026 Labour 30.9%vs Reform 28.1%
Labour share
-9.7pp
42.0%
TilgateLabour 38.0%vs Conservative 27.9%May 2026 Reform 43.1%vs Conservative 22.6%
Labour→Reform
+21.0pp
44.1%

Projection trajectory

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

Who has won Crawley 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
2010Con gain from LabHenry Smith32.3%44.8%14.4%2.9% UKIP1.3%4.4%5,92865.3%
2015Con holdHenry Smith33.6%47.0%2.8%14.4% UKIP2.3%-6,52665.7%+0.4
2017Con holdHenry Smith45.7%50.6%3.7%---2,45768.5%+2.8
2019notionalConservative winnerHenry Smith 2019 MP, pre-review boundary37.4%54.2%5.5%-2.9%-8,36067.0%-1.5
2024Lab gain from ConPeter Lamb38.2%26.8%4.8%18.5% Ref5.7%5.9%5,23560.4%-6.6

Earlier years are on pre-2024 boundaries; comparable results on the new boundary will be added when sourced.

Constituencies most like Crawley

Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Crawley. 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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