Constituency profile

Doncaster North

Yorkshire and The Humber · County constituency · Doncaster borough

Ed Miliband MP
Sitting MP

Ed Miliband

Labour

First elected May 2005Cabinet: Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Current PollCheck projection

Region & type
Yorkshire and The Humber
County constituency, Doncaster council
Last 5 GE winners
LLLLL
Labour 5/5
EU referendum 2016
71.7% Leave
UK average 51.9%; +19.8pp above mean
Current outlook
Labour +1.6pp
vs Reform UK 30.6%
NorthernStrong Leave areaWorking-class profile

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.

Leave vote 2016
71.7%
UK average ~52%
Degree or above
20.9%
UK average ~34%
No qualifications
25.5%
UK average ~18%
Owner-occupied
62.7%
UK average ~63%
Renting (social + private)
36.5%
UK average ~36%
Median age
42.1
UK median ~40
Age 65+
24.0%
UK average ~19%
Age 18-34
29.0%
UK average ~28%

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

Lab hold · majority 9,126 votes (29.5pp) · turnout 44.4%

Current projection

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

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 ›

Council layer (not Westminster)

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

CouncilShare of seat
Doncaster
63 LSOAs
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.

DateWardResultTop 3 vote shares
21 Aug 2025Bentley
Doncaster
Ref HOLDRef 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 & CarcroftLabour 55.3%vs Conservative 18.1%2021 Labour 69.4%vs Conservative 25.7%-20.0%
BentleyLabour 59.3%vs Conservative 21.8%2021 Labour 56.2%vs Conservative 30.5%-22.2%
MexboroughLabour 48.4%vs Others 26.9%2021 Others 67.9%vs Labour 22.6%-23.9%
Norton & AskernLabour 47.0%vs Conservative 26.7%2021 Labour 43.9%vs Conservative 36.2%-26.5%
Roman RidgeLabour 57.3%vs Conservative 21.7%2021 Labour 46.7%vs Conservative 24.5%-26.3%
SprotbroughLabour 48.6%vs Conservative 32.4%2021 Conservative 46.7%vs Labour 29.3%-33.6%
Stainforth & Barnby DunLabour 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 Right (Ref/UKIP) Green Other Majority Turnout
2010Lab holdEdward Miliband47.3%21.0%14.9%4.3% UKIP-12.4%10,90957.9%
2015Lab holdEdward Miliband52.4%18.3%2.5%22.6% UKIP1.9%2.2%11,78055.6%-2.3
2017Lab holdEdward Miliband60.8%27.6%1.7%6.5% UKIP-3.5%14,02458.5%+2.9
2019notionalLabour winnerEdward Miliband 2019 MP, pre-review boundary38.3%33.2%3.6%--24.9%2,07055.9%-2.6
2024Lab holdEd Miliband52.4%22.9%3.4%-5.7%15.6%9,12644.4%-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.

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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