Constituency profile

Nottingham North and Kimberley

East Midlands · Borough constituency

Alex Norris MP
Sitting MP

Alex Norris

Labour (Co-op)

First elected June 2017Cabinet: Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Current PollCheck projection

Region & type
East Midlands
Borough constituency
Last 5 GE winners
CCCLL
Conservative 3/5, Labour 2/5
EU referendum 2016
54.3% Leave
UK average 51.9%; +2.4pp above mean
Current outlook
Labour +9.5pp
vs Reform UK 28.4%
MidlandsBrexit-marginalWorking-class profileDiverse

About the Nottingham North and Kimberley constituency

Nottingham North and Kimberley is a borough constituency in the East Midlands. The sitting MP is Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op)), first elected in June 2017. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 47.1% to 20.1% for Reform UK, a majority of 9,427 votes on a 47.5% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 37.9% and Reform UK on 28.4%, a margin of 9.5 points.

Who lives in Nottingham North and Kimberley? Constituency demographics

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

Leave vote 2016
54.3%
UK average ~52%
Degree or above
24.2%
UK average ~34%
No qualifications
24.8%
UK average ~18%
Owner-occupied
54.4%
UK average ~63%
Renting (social + private)
44.9%
UK average ~36%
Median age
37.6
UK median ~40
Age 65+
19.4%
UK average ~19%
Age 18-34
32.3%
UK average ~28%

How did Nottingham North and Kimberley 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 9,427 votes (27.0pp) · turnout 47.5%

Current projection

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

Map of Nottingham North and Kimberley

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)

Nottingham North and Kimberley within Nottingham and Broxtowe

Nottingham North and Kimberley crosses council boundaries: Nottingham (83%), Broxtowe (17%). 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
Nottingham
55 LSOAs
83%
Broxtowe
11 LSOAs
17%

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
28 Aug 2025Nuthall East & Strelley
Broxtowe
Con HOLDCon 29% Ref 28% Other 21%

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
AspleyLabour 50.2%vs Reform 22.3%2023 Labour 81.1%vs Conservative 16.0%-19.5%
BasfordLabour 50.2%vs Reform 21.2%2023 Labour 64.8%vs Others 14.4%-33.0%
BestwoodLabour 51.4%vs Conservative 17.4%2023 Labour 58.7%vs Others 23.9%-23.2%
BulwellLabour 46.8%vs Reform 23.3%2023 Labour 68.6%vs Conservative 13.1%-27.5%
Bulwell ForestLabour 46.6%vs Reform 20.9%2023 Labour 54.0%vs Conservative 30.8%-32.4%
KimberleyLabour 40.1%vs Conservative 26.2%2023 Labour 65.2%vs Conservative 34.8%-33.3%
Leen ValleyLabour 49.2%vs Conservative 18.3%2023 Labour 66.6%vs Conservative 20.5%-31.8%
Nuthall East & StrelleyLabour 39.3%vs Conservative 33.6%2023 Conservative 49.0%vs Labour 41.1%-40.6%
Watnall & Nuthall WestLabour 35.1%vs Conservative 30.2%2023 Conservative 50.8%vs Labour 49.2%-35.4%

Projection trajectory

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

Who has won Nottingham North and Kimberley 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
2010predecessorCon gain from LabAnna Soubry Broxtowe MP38.3%39.0%16.9%2.3% UKIP0.8%2.7%38973.2%
2015predecessorCon holdAnna Soubry Broxtowe MP37.2%45.2%4.0%10.6% UKIP2.9%0.1%4,28774.5%+1.3
2017predecessorCon holdAnna Soubry Broxtowe MP45.3%46.8%4.0%2.7% UKIP1.2%-86375.0%+0.5
2019notionalLabour winnerAlex Norris Nottingham North MP, pre-review boundary46.0%40.2%3.8%-2.5%7.5%2,49057.8%
2024Lab holdAlex Norris47.1%19.4%3.8%20.1% Ref9.6%-9,42747.5%-10.3

Nottingham North and Kimberley was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Broxtowe (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 Nottingham North and Kimberley

Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Nottingham North and Kimberley. Politics shown for context.

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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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