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Portsmouth North: Amanda Martin MP

Official Parliament data — election result, roles, committees and voting record — alongside what Amanda Martin has actually done locally, and what is on their own website. Evidence, not a scorecard.

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This is not a scorecard or a ranking. It sets out, with sources, what each MP has actually done, what official Parliament data and TheyWorkForYou's published voting-stance summaries record, and what their own websites emphasise — so residents can judge for themselves. "Did not vote" is never presented as "absent" — see Parliament's own explanation on each profile. For the full, unfiltered voting record, use the official Parliament link on each profile — this page is a starting point, not a replacement for it.

Portsmouth North

Amanda Martin

Labour · MP since 4 July 2024 — the first time Portsmouth North has returned a Labour MP

2024 general election result

Amanda Martin (Labour)14,495 · 34.8% (+7.9)
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative)13,715 · 33% (-28.4)
Melvyn Todd (Reform UK)8,501 · 20.4% (+20.4)
Simon Dodd (Liberal Democrat)3,031 · 7.3% (-0.2)
Duncan Robinson (Green)1,851 · 4.5% (+1.6)
Electorate: 70,446Turnout: 59%Majority: 780

2019: Conservative hold (Penny Mordaunt), majority 15,780 (34.4pp), turnout 63.9% — Labour was a distant second on 27.0%. A 62-point swing in majority share over one Parliament.

Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South were both re-formed on their existing 2010–2024 boundaries in the 2023 boundary review — they did not actually change shape, only their internal reference ID did. The 2019 comparison below is therefore a genuine like-for-like result, not a notional estimate (Commons Library, electionresults.parliament.uk).

Current role(s)

  • •Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education (since September 2025) — an unpaid, first-rung government role bound by collective responsibility, not a ministerial appointment.
  • •Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gibraltar (elected September 2024).
  • •No government, opposition or other official post recorded before this — a backbench MP for her first year.

Committees

  • •Education Committee, 21 Oct 2024 – 28 Oct 2025
  • •Armed Forces Commissioner Bill, 4–12 Dec 2024
  • •Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, 15 Jan – 11 Feb 2025
  • •Court of Referees, 27 Feb 2025 – present
  • •Planning and Infrastructure Bill, 24 Apr – 22 May 2025
  • •Football Governance Bill [HL], 14 May – 17 Jun 2025
  • •Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill, 25 Jun 2025
  • •Norwich Livestock Market Bill [HL], 25 Jun 2025 – present
  • •General Cemetery Bill [HL], 16 Sep 2025 – present

Voting record

Important: what “did not vote” does and doesn't mean

“Members may not vote in every division of the House. This can be due to a number of reasons; The Speaker and deputies cannot vote because of the impartiality of the chair, and Sinn Féin Members have an absentionist policy. A Member may wish to abstain, or have a procedural reason for not voting. Members can be absent carrying out consitituency or ministerial business, or be unable to attend for other reasons.”

— UK Parliament's own wording, quoted directly from this MP's official voting page. A non-vote is not evidence of absence or of failing to do the job.

483 divisionsrecorded on Parliament's official register, to 8 July 2026 (Division 53 of this Parliament).

UK Stat Pack's own grouping of TheyWorkForYou's stance summaries — not an official Parliament category: Parliament's own voting pages carry no policy-area taxonomy at all; the themes below are TheyWorkForYou's independent analysis, grouped here for readability.
Overall pattern: TheyWorkForYou records 100% alignment with the Labour Party position across her most recent 304 votes, and no vote against the party majority — these are Labour-government positions she has supported, not personal breaks from the party line.
Housing: Consistently voted for more rights for tenants and regulation on landlords — relevant to a constituency with a large private-rented sector.
Environment: Consistently voted for financial incentives for low-carbon electricity, increasing the windfall tax on oil and gas, and measures to prevent climate change.
Welfare — a genuinely mixed record worth presenting in full: Voted for scrapping the two-child benefit limit (expands support for larger low-income families), but also voted for reducing the health-related top-up for new Universal Credit claims (a welfare reduction) — both real, recorded votes, worth reading together rather than in isolation.
Tax: Voted for increases to income tax (in real terms), employer National Insurance, capital gains tax and VAT on private school fees — standard Labour Budget positions, not Portsmouth-specific.

Things personally done or driven

  • •Wrote to the Leader of Portsmouth City Council and raised it in Parliament that the council's public HMO register was 15 months out of date, and cited council data implying a 12-year wait for a four-bedroom council home (June 2025).
  • •Sat on five Public Bill Committees plus two Private Bill committees, most with high attendance.

Welcomed / publicised (national decisions, not locally originated)

  • •Publicised the government's national Waste Crime Action Plan and £45m Environment Agency funding on fly-tipping, framed around Portsmouth constituents' experience.
  • •Backed, jointly with Stephen Morgan MP, Portsmouth's bid for UK City of Culture 2029.
  • •Welcomed up to £3,994,500 of national Skills Bootcamps funding reaching City of Portsmouth College, and separate national schools-buildings funding reaching Portsmouth North schools.

What their own website emphasises

Her site (amandamartin.org.uk) frames three personal pledges — Champion, Visible, Trust — with a strong personal-connection narrative. Content leans toward republishing central government announcements with a local quote attached. The HMO register letter is the strongest example of substantive, locally-initiated content.

Not yet actioned, on current evidence

  • •No Portsmouth North-specific campaign found yet, personally led by her, on policing, NHS waiting times or targeted cost-of-living support.
  • •The City of Culture bid and skills/schools funding are framed as "welcomed", not "secured by Amanda Martin" — worth reading carefully.

Contact

  • Parliamentary office: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
  • Email: [email protected]
  • No constituency office is listed on their official parliamentary contact record — only the Westminster office.
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Sources (5) · last verified 2026-08-26
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