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Portsmouth North

The northern half of the city — Portsea Island north of roughly Fratton, plus Cosham, Paulsgrove, Drayton and Farlington on the mainland side.

Measured for this area

Figures that are genuinely published at this geography, not apportioned from a wider one.

70,446
Electorate
2024 general election
UK Parliament
59.0%
Turnout
2024
UK Parliament
780
Majority
2024
UK Parliament
27.5%
Paulsgrove child poverty
2025
PCC Public Health Needs Summary
Who represents you

Amanda Martin

Labour · MP for Portsmouth North

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This half of the city, in census data

Built by combining the 7 wards in this seat, weighted by population — not by splitting a city figure in half.

100,133
Residents (Census 2021)
Portsmouth: 208,003
18.5%
Households deprived in 2+ ways
Portsmouth: 19.4%
19.8%
Private rented homes
Portsmouth: 28.6%
19.7%
Adults with no qualifications
Portsmouth: 17.4%

Portsmouth North wards compared

Deprived on at least two of employment, education, health and housing at once — the census measure of compounded hardship rather than a single difficulty.

Paulsgrove25.3%
Nelson24.7%
Cosham20.4%
Hilsea17.5%
Baffins15.5%
Copnor14%
Drayton and Farlington10.8%
Portsmouth 19.4% England 18.1%
What this data is, and what it is not

Census 2021 was taken on 21 March 2021, during the third national lockdown. Student and workplace populations were displaced, and the figures do not update between censuses. Read them as a map of how wards differ from each other, not as this year's conditions.

Percentages are a published count divided by the published total for the same table and ward. The counts are ONS; the division is ours.

Only published for Portsmouth as a whole

These are not broken down to constituency level by the bodies that publish them. Splitting a city-wide figure between the two seats would produce a number that looks local but has not been measured, so it is not done here.

  • Employment, earnings, house prices and rents — published for Portsmouth as a whole only.
  • Crime rates — published by police force area and local authority, not by constituency.
  • Health outcomes including life expectancy — published at local authority level.
  • School attainment and absence — published by local authority and by individual school, not by constituency.
See the city-wide data →

Ward-to-constituency allocation follows the current (2024) Westminster boundaries. Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South did not change shape in the 2023 boundary review. Where a statistic exists only for Portsmouth as a whole, that is stated rather than split across the two seats — apportioning an authority-level figure by population would produce a number that looks local but is not measured.