Doncaster North
Yorkshire and The Humber · County constituency · Doncaster borough
About the Doncaster North constituency
Doncaster North is a county constituency in Yorkshire and The Humber. The sitting MP is Ed Miliband (Labour), first elected in May 2005. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 52.4% to 22.9% for the Conservatives, a majority of 9,126 votes on a 44.4% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 32.2% and Reform UK on 30.6%, a margin of 1.6 points.
Who lives in Doncaster North? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Doncaster North 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 Doncaster North
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 ›
Doncaster North within Doncaster
Doncaster North sits entirely within Doncaster Council. Doncaster was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| Doncaster | 100% |
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.
| Date | Ward | Result | Top 3 vote shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Aug 2025 | Bentley | Ref HOLD | Ref 44% Lab 38% Other 9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adwick le Street & Carcroft | Labour 55.3%vs Conservative 18.1% | 2021 Labour 69.4%vs Conservative 25.7% | - | 20.0% |
| Bentley | Labour 59.3%vs Conservative 21.8% | 2021 Labour 56.2%vs Conservative 30.5% | - | 22.2% |
| Mexborough | Labour 48.4%vs Others 26.9% | 2021 Others 67.9%vs Labour 22.6% | - | 23.9% |
| Norton & Askern | Labour 47.0%vs Conservative 26.7% | 2021 Labour 43.9%vs Conservative 36.2% | - | 26.5% |
| Roman Ridge | Labour 57.3%vs Conservative 21.7% | 2021 Labour 46.7%vs Conservative 24.5% | - | 26.3% |
| Sprotbrough | Labour 48.6%vs Conservative 32.4% | 2021 Conservative 46.7%vs Labour 29.3% | - | 33.6% |
| Stainforth & Barnby Dun | Labour 49.0%vs Conservative 24.9% | 2021 Conservative 34.6%vs Labour 31.4% | - | 23.9% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Doncaster North at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Doncaster North 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Lab hold | Edward Miliband | 47.3% | 21.0% | 14.9% | 10,909 | 57.9% |
| 2015 | Lab hold | Edward Miliband | 52.4% | 18.3% | 2.5% | 11,780 | 55.6%-2.3 |
| 2017 | Lab hold | Edward Miliband | 60.8% | 27.6% | 1.7% | 14,024 | 58.5%+2.9 |
| 2019notional | Labour winner | Edward Miliband 2019 MP, pre-review boundary | 38.3% | 33.2% | 3.6% | 2,070 | 55.9%-2.6 |
| 2024 | Lab hold | Ed Miliband | 52.4% | 22.9% | 3.4% | 9,126 | 44.4%-11.5 |
Earlier years are on pre-2024 boundaries; comparable results on the new boundary will be added when sourced.
Constituencies most like Doncaster North
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Doncaster North. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Leave71.7 / 69.6vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate20.9 / 22.5vs 33.7
- ↑No quals25.5 / 25.9vs 18.0
- ↑Leave71.7 / 70.9vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate20.9 / 22.2vs 33.7
- ↑No quals25.5 / 24.2vs 18.0
- ↑Leave71.7 / 70.4vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate20.9 / 22.2vs 33.7
- ↑No quals25.5 / 24.0vs 18.0
- ↑Leave71.7 / 70.5vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate20.9 / 20.5vs 33.7
- ↑No quals25.5 / 24.6vs 18.0
- ↑Leave71.7 / 68.5vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate20.9 / 21.3vs 33.7
- ↑No quals25.5 / 24.9vs 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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