Wellingborough and Rushden
East Midlands · County constituency · North Northamptonshire borough
About the Wellingborough and Rushden constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden is a county constituency in the East Midlands. The sitting MP is Gen Kitchen (Labour), first elected in February 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 40.3% to 27.9% for the Conservatives, a majority of 5,486 votes on a 56.7% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Reform UK on 32.2% and Labour on 27.8%, a margin of 4.4 points - a projected change of hands from Labour.
Who lives in Wellingborough and Rushden? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Wellingborough and Rushden 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 Wellingborough and Rushden
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 ›
Wellingborough and Rushden within North Northamptonshire
Wellingborough and Rushden sits entirely within North Northamptonshire Council. North Northamptonshire 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 |
|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Mar 2023 | Rushden South | Con HOLD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brickhill and Queensway | Labour 43.5%vs Conservative 25.5% | 2021 Conservative 53.7%vs Labour 37.9% | - | - |
| Croyland and Swanspool | Labour 42.4%vs Reform 22.9% | 2021 Conservative 49.0%vs Labour 46.3% | - | - |
| Finedon | Labour 44.9%vs Conservative 26.0% | 2021 Conservative 50.5%vs Labour 39.6% | - | - |
| Hatton Park | Labour 37.1%vs Conservative 29.4% | 2021 Conservative 65.6%vs Labour 30.7% | - | - |
| Higham Ferrers | Labour 36.3%vs Conservative 30.8% | 2021 Conservative 59.3%vs Independent 14.7% | - | - |
| Irchester | Labour 35.4%vs Conservative 35.2% | 2021 Conservative 63.9%vs Labour 23.0% | - | - |
| Irthlingborough | Labour 42.2%vs Conservative 30.8% | 2021 Conservative 55.9%vs Labour 33.6% | - | - |
| Rushden Pemberton West | Labour 36.3%vs Conservative 30.8% | 2021 Conservative 69.8%vs Labour 16.6% | - | - |
| Rushden South | Labour 38.8%vs Conservative 27.6% | 2021 Conservative 67.0%vs Labour 19.4% | - | - |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Wellingborough and Rushden at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Wellingborough and Rushden 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Con hold | Peter Bone Wellingborough MP | 25.4% | 48.2% | 17.1% | 11,787 | 67.2% |
| 2015predecessor | Con hold | Peter Bone Wellingborough MP | 19.5% | 52.1% | 4.4% | 16,397 | 67.9%+0.7 |
| 2017predecessor | Con hold | Peter Bone Wellingborough MP | 34.0% | 57.4% | 3.3% | 12,460 | 67.2%-0.7 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | Peter Bone Wellingborough MP, pre-review boundary | 28.3% | 62.4% | 6.7% | 16,038 | 61.4% |
| 2024 | Lab gain from Con | Gen Kitchen | 40.3% | 27.8% | 3.6% | 5,486 | 56.7%-4.7 |
Wellingborough and Rushden was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Wellingborough (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 Wellingborough and Rushden
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Wellingborough and Rushden. Politics shown for context.
- ↓Graduate24.1 / 24.4vs 33.7
- ↑Leave61.6 / 63.9vs 53.2
- ↑Employed61.4 / 60.8vs 57.3
- ↑Leave61.6 / 63.7vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate24.1 / 26.5vs 33.7
- ↑Employed61.4 / 61.7vs 57.3
- ↑Leave61.6 / 63.7vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate24.1 / 26.9vs 33.7
- ↑Employed61.4 / 60.7vs 57.3
- ↓Graduate24.1 / 25.5vs 33.7
- ↑Leave61.6 / 64.5vs 53.2
- ↑Leave61.6 / 60.1vs 53.2
- ↓Graduate24.1 / 26.8vs 33.7
- ↑Employed61.4 / 62.8vs 57.3
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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