The Wrekin
West Midlands · County constituency
About the The Wrekin constituency
The Wrekin is a county constituency in the West Midlands. The sitting MP is Mark Pritchard (Conservative), MP since May 2005. At the 2024 general election, the Conservatives won with 32.6% to 30.9% for Labour, a majority of 883 votes on a 63.4% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has the Conservatives on 30.7% and Reform UK on 26.4%, a margin of 4.4 points.
Who lives in The Wrekin? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did The Wrekin 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 The Wrekin
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 ›
The Wrekin within Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire
The Wrekin crosses council boundaries: Telford and Wrekin (75%), Shropshire (25%). None of the constituent councils were due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results with vote counts available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| Telford and Wrekin | 75% |
| Shropshire | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Nov 2024 | Hadley & Leegomery | Lab HOLD | Lab 45% Con 31% Ref 16% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent result with vote counts available. How this table is sourced ›
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admaston & Bratton | Conservative 40.6%vs Labour 24.5% | 2023 Lib Dem 52.8%vs Conservative 33.4% | - | 46.6% |
| Albrighton | Conservative 34.6%vs Reform 25.4% | 2025 Conservative 55.8%vs Reform 27.0% | - | - |
| Apley Castle | Conservative 30.7%vs Labour 26.7% | 2023 Lib Dem 64.3%vs Conservative 18.4% | - | 45.4% |
| Arleston & College | Labour 48.0%vs Conservative 21.6% | 2023 Labour 76.2%vs Conservative 18.3% | - | 36.6% |
| Cheswardine | Conservative 35.2%vs Reform 24.6% | 2025 Lib Dem 34.7%vs Reform 33.5% | - | - |
| Church Aston & Lilleshall | Conservative 46.6%vs Labour 21.8% | 2023 Conservative 64.0%vs Labour 23.4% | - | 44.9% |
| Donnington | Labour 35.7%vs Conservative 29.3% | 2023 Labour 50.4%vs Conservative 45.6% | - | 28.4% |
| Edgmond | Conservative 44.2%vs Labour 25.8% | 2023 Conservative 62.6%vs Labour 27.4% | - | 41.7% |
| Ercall | Conservative 35.4%vs Labour 33.7% | 2023 Labour 54.5%vs Conservative 39.6% | - | 51.5% |
| Ercall Magna | Conservative 43.9%vs Labour 20.6% | 2023 Conservative 59.6%vs Lib Dem 28.7% | - | 38.1% |
| Hadley & Leegomery | Labour 43.3%vs Conservative 24.5% | 2023 Labour 61.6%vs Independent 20.2% | - | 31.4% |
| Haygate & Park | Labour 40.5%vs Conservative 28.1% | 2023 Labour 58.9%vs Conservative 31.1% | - | 38.8% |
| Hodnet | Conservative 36.6%vs Reform 25.6% | 2025 Reform 36.1%vs Lib Dem 31.9% | - | - |
| Muxton | Conservative 39.3%vs Labour 28.5% | 2023 Independent 39.6%vs Conservative 34.8% | - | 35.3% |
| Newport East | Conservative 28.9%vs Labour 28.3% | 2023 Lib Dem 51.9%vs Conservative 25.5% | - | 39.5% |
| Newport North | Conservative 38.3%vs Labour 24.6% | 2023 Conservative 50.7%vs Lib Dem 33.1% | - | 45.2% |
| Newport South | Conservative 33.3%vs Labour 25.0% | 2023 Lib Dem 48.8%vs Conservative 35.6% | - | 38.1% |
| Newport West | Labour 31.5%vs Conservative 29.9% | 2023 Independent 66.5%vs Labour 15.3% | - | 36.8% |
| Shawbirch & Dothill | Labour 28.4%vs Conservative 26.9% | 2023 Lib Dem 60.8%vs Labour 20.4% | - | 39.3% |
| Shifnal North | Labour 27.9%vs Reform 27.6% | 2025 Reform 34.2%vs Independent 30.9%2025 ward: Shifnal North, covering 75% of this ward | - | - |
| Shifnal South and Cosford | Conservative 32.9%vs Reform 26.2% | 2025 Conservative 30.1%vs Reform 29.6%2025 ward: Shifnal South, covering 67% of this ward | - | - |
| Wrockwardine | Conservative 43.1%vs Labour 26.6% | 2023 Conservative 48.6%vs Labour 25.7% | - | 43.2% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for The Wrekin at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won The Wrekin at past 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 | Con hold | Mark Pritchard | 27.1% | 47.7% | 17.4% | 9,450 | 70.1% |
| 2015 | Con hold | Mark Pritchard | 26.0% | 49.7% | 4.3% | 10,743 | 68.9%-1.2 |
| 2017 | Con hold | Mark Pritchard | 36.1% | 55.4% | 2.7% | 9,564 | 72.2%+3.3 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | Mark Pritchard 2019 MP, pre-review boundary | 24.3% | 64.7% | 8.0% | 21,173 | 68.9%-3.3 |
| 2021by-election | LD gain from Con | Helen Morgan North Shropshire MP | 9.7% | 31.6% | 47.2% | 5,925 | 46.2% |
| 2024 | Con hold | Mark Pritchard | 30.9% | 32.6% | 9.5% | 883 | 63.4%-5.5 |
Earlier years are on pre-2024 boundaries; comparable results on the new boundary will be added when sourced. By-election rows for North Shropshire are for a former seat that covered part of this area. By-elections are on the boundaries in force at the time and usually have much lower turnout than a general election.
Constituencies most like The Wrekin
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to The Wrekin. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Leave59.3 / 60.3vs 53.2
- ↑Leave59.3 / 61.0vs 53.2
- ↑Leave59.3 / 58.9vs 53.2
- ↑Leave59.3 / 59.9vs 53.2
- ↑Leave59.3 / 61.6vs 53.2
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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 model at the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls, built from the British Election Study Internet Panel (Fieldhouse et al.), Census 2021 (ONS) and Scotland's Census 2022 (NRS). The trajectory was recalculated with the current model, introduced in autumn 2026.
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