Mid Leicestershire

2025 parliamentary constituency

Date elected

4th Jul 2024

Place

Constituency history

This constituency was introduced at the July 2024 general election, and replaced the previous three new constituencies:

Bosworth

Covered approximately 13% of this new constituency’s population, and 14% of this new constituency’s area.

South Leicestershire

Covered approximately 16% of this new constituency’s population, and 2% of this new constituency’s area.

Charnwood

Covered approximately 67% of this new constituency’s population, and 53% of this new constituency’s area.

Constituency age distribution

This area National average
Ages 0 - 15 18.5% 18.3%
Ages 16 - 24 8.6% 10.5%
Ages 25 - 34 12.1% 13.2%
Ages 35 - 49 19.5% 19.1%
Ages 50 - 64 20.3% 19.8%
Ages 65 and over 21.0% 19.1%

Constituency Population

102,000

102,977.2 national average

Current Industry

This area National average
Agriculture, energy and water 1.2% 1.1%
Construction 5.1% 4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants 10.0% 9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities 6.8% 7.9%
Manufacturing 4.7% 3.5%
Does not apply 50.6% 53.4%
Other 2.0% 2.1%
Public administration, education and health 15.6% 14.3%
Transport and communication 3.9% 4.4%

Current Occupation

This area National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations 5.0% 4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations 6.9% 6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations 4.1% 4.4%
Elementary occupations 4.2% 4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials 6.7% 6.0%
Does not apply 50.6% 53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives 3.4% 3.2%
Professional occupations 10.2% 9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations 3.4% 3.5%
Skilled trades occupations 5.4% 4.8%

Disabled under the Equality Act

15.6%

17.7% national average

Ethnicity

This area National average
Asian / Asian British 12.5% 8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 2.7% 2.8%
Other ethnic groups 1.4% 1.8%
Other White 4.0% 6.3%
White British 77.9% 77.5%

General Health

This area National average
Bad or very bad health 4.0% 5.3%
Fair health 12.0% 12.8%
Very good or good health 84.0% 81.9%

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

25.7%

31.5% national average

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

22.2%

23.6% national average

Have missed a rent payment in the last six months

14.3%

19.0% national average

Have not been able to afford to turn the heating on at home when they have felt cold in the past month

31.3%

37.5% national average

Main Language

This area National average
African languages 0.1% 0.3%
Asian languages 3.4% 3.0%
English or Welsh 90.8% 88.9%
European languages (EU) 2.1% 3.8%
Does not apply 3.2% 3.1%
North or South American languages 0% 0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages 0.0% 0.0%
Any other languages 0.2% 0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU) 0.1% 0.1%
Any other UK languages 0.0% 0.0%
Sign and supported languages 0.1% 0.0%

Travel to work method

This area National average
Bicycle 0.8% 0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach 1.1% 1.8%
Driving a car or van 27.5% 21.3%
On foot 2.0% 3.5%
Work mainly at or from home 15.2% 14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram 0.0% 0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.2% 0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under 50.6% 53.4%
Other method of travel to work 0.4% 0.5%
Passenger in a car or van 2.0% 1.8%
Taxi 0.2% 0.3%
Train 0.1% 0.8%

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

22.1%

28.7% national average

Worried about not being able to afford their mortgage or rent in the next year

33.0%

40.0% national average

Country of the UK

England

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

4

2.8 national average

Public opinion

Do you think immigration has generally enriched or undermined society?

This area National average
Enriched 35.0% 37.2%
Neither 13.1% 12.5%
Undermined 51.9% 47.3%

Should the welfare system be expanded to help more people, or reduced to make benefits harder to get?

This area National average
Expanded 29.7% 34.1%
Neither 11.5% 11.5%
Reduced 58.8% 51.5%

Would you be comfortable paying more tax, if it meant more money were invested in public services like the NHS and education?

This area National average
Comfortable 41.4% 44.3%
Neither 6.1% 6.0%
Uncomfortable 52.4% 46.8%

Would you be comfortable with government debt going up, provided that money were invested in the economy and local services?

This area National average
Comfortable 47.4% 52.5%
Neither 7.8% 7.6%
Uncomfortable 44.7% 37.0%

Would you support or oppose the building of new housing in your area?

This area National average
Neither 25.4% 21.1%
Oppose 27.8% 17.8%
Support 46.8% 58.2%

Second placed party at most recent election

Labour Party

Loss of nature and destruction of the environment should be one of the most important concerns for the country

This area National average
Net agree 74.2% 72.6%
Net disagree 9% 8.7%
Strongly agree 35% 33.8%
Partly agree 39% 38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree 17% 18.7%
Partly disagree 6% 5.9%
Strongly disagree 2.8% 2.7%

Policies for tackling the cost of living crisis should go hand in hand with policies to tackle the climate crisis

This area National average
Net agree 57.2% 58.9%
Net disagree 19.0% 17.6%
Strongly agree 22.6% 24.2%
Somewhat agree 34.7% 34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 23.3% 23.4%
Somewhat disagree 12.0% 10.5%
Strongly disagree 7% 7.1%

Tackling climate change should / should not be one of the Government’s biggest priorities right now

This area National average
Should be a priority 57.9% 57.5%
Should not be a priority 42.1% 42.5%

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

27%

26.2% national average

Believe that the government should continue the block on onshore wind development

23.7%

24.3% national average

Believe that the government should use wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills

89.2%

84.3% national average

Believe the government has increased investment in renewables over the past 5 years

62.8%

52.0% national average

Movement

Churches that have declared a climate emergency

0

0.2 national average

Number of RSPB Reserves

0

0.3 national average

Number of Save the Children shops

0

0.2 national average

Number of Wildlife Trusts Reserves

6

  • Altar Stones
  • Lea Meadows
  • Mountsorrel & Rothley Marshes
  • Rocky Plantation
  • Ulverscroft
  • Wanlip Meadows