Wellingborough and Rushden
East Midlands · County constituency · North Northamptonshire
About the Wellingborough and Rushden constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden is a county constituency in the East Midlands. The sitting MP is Gen Kitchen (Labour), MP since 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 Labour on 30.8% and Reform UK on 29.9%, a margin of 0.9 points.
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 with vote counts available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brickhill and Queensway | Labour 43.5%vs Conservative 25.5% | 2025 Reform 38.6%vs Conservative 24.1%2025 ward: Brickhill & Queensway, covering 100% of this ward | - | 24.0% |
| Croyland and Swanspool | Labour 42.4%vs Reform 22.9% | 2025 Reform 37.9%vs Labour 27.6%2025 ward: Croyland & Swanspool, covering 78% of this ward | - | 25.1% |
| Finedon | Labour 44.9%vs Conservative 26.0% | 2025 Labour 30.4%vs Conservative 24.6%2025 ward: Victoria, covering 62% of this ward | - | 23.5% |
| Hatton Park | Labour 37.1%vs Conservative 29.4% | 2025 Reform 37.8%vs Conservative 29.1% | - | 29.8% |
| 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% | 2025 Conservative 38.8%vs Reform 35.5%2025 ward: Irchester, covering 100% of this ward | - | 34.8% |
| Irthlingborough | Labour 42.2%vs Conservative 30.8% | 2025 Reform 40.2%vs Labour 24.0%2025 ward: Irthlingborough, covering 71% of this ward | - | 31.2% |
| Rushden Pemberton West | Labour 36.3%vs Conservative 30.8% | 2025 Reform 45.0%vs Conservative 27.7%2025 ward: Pemberton, covering 86% of this ward | - | 28.8% |
| Rushden South | Labour 38.8%vs Conservative 27.6% | 2025 Reform 45.3%vs Conservative 27.8%2025 ward: Rushden Lakes, covering 50% of this ward | - | 23.4% |
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 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% |
| 2024by-election | Lab gain from Con | Gen Kitchen Wellingborough MP | 45.9% | 24.6% | 4.7% | 6,436 | 38.0% |
| 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. By-elections are on the boundaries in force at the time and usually have much lower turnout than a general election.
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
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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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