Coventry North East (UK Parliament constituency)

Coventry North East
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Coventry North East in West Midlands.
Location of West Midlands within England.
County	West Midlands
Electorate	74,870 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Coventry
Current constituency
Created	1974 (1974)
Member of parliament	Colleen Fletcher (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Coventry North, Coventry East
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Coventry North East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from the 2015 General Election by Colleen Fletcher of the Labour Party.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Coventry wards of Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.

1983-1997: The City of Coventry wards of Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.

1997-present: The City of Coventry wards of Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Lower Stoke, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.

Based entirely within the borough of Coventry, the seat of Coventry North East includes the Stoke, Walsgrave-on-Sowe, Wyken, Longford, and Foleshill areas of the cathedral city.

In the seat is a wide demographic mix, across it is scattered an above UK average level of social housing and unemployment claimants however income is close to the UK average. The constituency has a large ethnic minority population, mainly Sikhs and Muslims and one ward, Foleshill, has a majority ethnic minority population.

Since its 1974 creation the area has been a Labour Party stronghold with the Conservative Party finishing second. The Liberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest shares of the vote in 1983 and in 2010 on 16.6% of the vote. In 2010 between 2% and 5% of the vote were a British National Party, Socialist and UKIP candidates completing the choice of seven was a Christian party's candidate who attracted the least votes.