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Portsmouth South: Stephen Morgan MP

Official Parliament data — election result, roles, committees and voting record — alongside what Stephen Morgan 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 South

Stephen Morgan

Labour · MP since 8 June 2017 (re-elected 2019 and 2024)

2024 general election result

Stephen Morgan (Labour)18,857 · 48.4% (-0.2)
Mark Zimmer (Reform UK)5,702 · 14.6% (+12.6)
Signe Biddle (Conservative)5,643 · 14.5% (-22.8)
Charlie Murphy (Liberal Democrat)4,886 · 12.6% (+1.1)
Elliott Lee (Green)3,107 · 8% (+8)
Jacob Short (Portsmouth Independent Party)733 · 1.9% (+1.9)
Electorate: 73,711Turnout: 52.8%Majority: 13,155

2019: Labour hold, majority 5,363 (11.3pp), turnout 63.9% — Morgan 48.6% to the Conservatives' 37.3%.

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 Under-Secretary of State, Defra — farming, food, marine and fisheries (since 22 July 2026).
  • •Previously: Minister of State, Defra (12 Jun – 22 Jul 2026); Government Whip / Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury (7 Sep 2025 – 12 Jun 2026); Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DfE — early education (9 Jul 2024 – 7 Sep 2025).
  • •Pre-government (Opposition): Shadow Minister for Local Government/Communities (2019–20); Shadow Defence Minister (2020–21); Shadow Education Minister (2021–23); Shadow Transport Minister (2023–24).

Committees

  • •Public Accounts Committee, 20 Nov 2017 – 6 Nov 2019 — inquiries included Crossrail, NHS waiting times, housing-market planning and Brexit consultancy costs.
  • •Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill 2021, Feb–Apr 2021
  • •Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, 15 Jan – 11 Feb 2025
  • •Courts and Tribunals Bill, 18 Mar – 28 Apr 2026

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.

1,696 divisionsrecorded on Parliament's official register, to 15 July 2026 (Division 60 of this Parliament; total spans back to 2017).

UK Stat Pack's own grouping of TheyWorkForYou's stance summaries — not an official Parliament category: As with Portsmouth North, Parliament's own voting pages carry no policy-area taxonomy — these groupings are TheyWorkForYou's independent analysis.
Environment / water: Consistently voted for improving environmental water quality — consistent with his long-running public campaigning on Southern Water sewage discharges since at least 2022.
Welfare — same mixed pattern as his Portsmouth North colleague: Voted with the government (not among the 49 Labour MPs who rebelled) on the July 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which reduced a health-related top-up for new claimants — while also having voted, on the record, for scrapping the two-child benefit limit.
Housing: Consistently voted for more rights for tenants and regulation on landlords, and for landlords bearing the cost of building-safety works.
Immigration: Almost always voted against a stricter asylum system and against stronger enforcement of immigration rules — a UK-wide Home Office voting pattern, not a Portsmouth-specific one.

Things personally done or driven

  • •A sustained, multi-year public campaign against Southern Water storm-overflow discharges — public statements since at least August 2022, public meetings, and reported engagement with the Environment Agency over Southsea East's "poor" bathing-water classification.
  • •Hosted public meetings on rising local fly-tipping, citing a specific example of commercial waste dumped behind North End businesses.
  • •Sat on the Public Accounts Committee for two years, plus three further bill committees since.

Welcomed / publicised (national decisions, not locally originated)

  • •Welcomed the government's national Waste Crime Action Plan (March 2026).
  • •His own site cites figures for Naval Base investment and constituency funding (including a stated £20m for Landport and £62m in council funding over the parliament) that appear in his own press releases rather than an independently verifiable government announcement.

What their own website emphasises

His site (stephenmorgan.org.uk) is built around constituency accessibility — a physical high-street constituency office with published hours. His 2026 "Report Back" annual report is hope-framed but states no hard figures in the report text itself; specific pound amounts appear only in separate press releases.

Not yet actioned, on current evidence

  • •Despite years of sewage/water-quality campaigning as a backbencher, none of his ministerial roles since July 2024 have carried the water-regulation brief itself.
  • •No evidence found of him commenting publicly on the UTC Portsmouth–BAE Systems apprenticeship pipeline, despite HM Naval Base Portsmouth sitting inside his own constituency.

Contact

  • Parliamentary office: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Constituency office: 72 Albert Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 2SL
  • Office hours: Monday–Thursday, 10:00–11:30 and 14:00–15:45
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Sources (5) · last verified 2026-08-26
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