Coventry East
Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Boundary of Coventry East inWest Midlands region
County	West Midlands county
Electorate	73,389 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Coventry
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Mary Creagh (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Coventry North East
1945–1974 (1974)
Seats	One
Created from	Coventry
Replaced by	Coventry North East, Coventry South East

Coventry East is aparliamentary constituency in the city ofCoventry in theWest Midlands. Having previously existed from 1945 to 1974, the seat was re-established for the2024 general election in the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, formed primarily from the abolished constituency ofCoventry North East.^[2] The current MP isMary Creagh of theLabour Party; she previously represented Wakefield from 2005 to 2019.

Coventry East is a mostlyurban andsuburban constituency which covers the eastern and north-eastern neighbourhoods ofCoventry, a city in theWest Midlands. Parts of the city contained within the constituency includeFoleshill,Longford,Wyken,Walsgrave on Sowe,Binley andWillenhall. Coventry is a historiccathedral city which became an important centre for theBritish motor industry in the mid-20th century, but suffered a decline after the closure of most factories in the 1980s.^[3] The constituency has high levels of deprivation, with many areas falling within the 10% most-deprived inEngland, although the suburb of Binley is more affluent.^[4]

Compared to national averages, residents of Coventry East are generally younger and have low levels of income, education and professional employment.^[5] The constituency is ethnically diverse; 61% of residents areWhite, 21% areAsian (primarilyIndian) and 11% areBlack. The Asian population is concentrated around Foleshill, where they make up around half the population,^[6] and the constituency has a largeSikh community (6%).^[7] Atthe city council, all wards in the constituency are represented byLabour Party councillors. Voters in Coventry East strongly supported leaving theEuropean Union in the2016 referendum with an estimated 61% voting in favour ofBrexit compared to 52% nationwide.^[5]

1945–1950: The County Borough of Coventry wards of All Saints, Foleshill, Hernall, Hillfields, Longford, Lower Stoke, St Mary's, St Paul's, Upper Stoke, and Walsgrave.

1950–1974: The County Borough of Coventry wards of Charterhouse and Binley, Longford, Lower Stoke, Upper Stoke, and Walsgrave.

Following the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which became effective for the2024 general election, the re-established constituency is composed of the City of Coventry wards of:

• Binley and Willenhall, Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.^[8]

The seat comprises the previousCoventry North East seat, after transferring the Lower Stoke ward toCoventry South in exchange for the Binley and Willenhall ward.

Until 1945, the city of Coventry was represented by a single Member. Population growth meant that it had grown to 89,001 electors at the time of the1935 general election, and in the 1939 electoral register it had 87,487 electors.^[9] The County Borough of Coventry had also expanded its boundaries in the late 1930s, taking in an additional 66,425 electors. Two nearby divisions of Warwickshire had exceptionally large electorates: Nuneaton at 112,503 and Tamworth at 118,131. Accordingly, the area was included in the Schedule to theHouse of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944 as abnormally large constituencies to be divided by the Boundary Commission before the first post-war general election.

The Boundary Commission proposed to create two divisions within the new boundaries of the County Borough, with Coventry East comprising ten wards and having a 1939 electorate of 76,860.^[10] On the new electoral register compiled for the1945 general election, the constituency had 74,676 electors on the civilian residence register, 67 on the Business Premises register, and 5,166 on the service register.^[11]

A new Boundary Commission review began in 1965 by which time Coventry's electorate had increased and the city was allocated four seats; they were named after the ordinal points of the compass. The recommendations of the Commission came into effect at theFebruary 1974 general election, at which point Coventry East ceased to exist as a Parliamentary constituency. This coincided with Richard Crossman's retirement from parliament; he died of liver cancer two months after the election.

Coventry North East prior to 2024

• List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
• List of parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands (region)

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)

• Coventry East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

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• Parliamentary constituencies in Coventry
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1945
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1974
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2024

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