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Gosport

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Apr 2026

Represented by Con since 2024. Covers Gosport and Lee-on-the-Solent. Population 96,274.

Dinenage has been most visible recently on conscience votes, where she has broken from her Conservative colleagues on both assisted dying and abortion. In June 2025 she voted against amendments that the Conservative majority supported on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill -- including provisions on advertising restrictions and guidance -- and against a clause requiring an in-person consultation before abortion medication. She also voted for decriminalising abortion for women, again against the Conservative majority. Beyond those free votes, she has consistently backed Lords amendments on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill and the Pension Schemes Bill, opposing the Labour government's attempts to override the upper chamber -- a pattern reflected in her 100% alignment score on pro-lords-scrutiny votes.

At 58% voting participation, Dinenage sits notably below the Commons average, though committee chairs frequently carry heavier non-chamber workloads. She is a 96.8% party-line voter when she does vote, with strong alignment on crime and business issues and firm opposition to progressive taxation and housing development. Her clearest deviation from Conservative colleagues is on pension protection -- voting 47 percentage points below her party's average -- and consumer protection, where she scores 46 points above it. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, culture, health, and social care.

284
Commons votes
This parliament
£27k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
73.3k
Electorate
2024 GE

Con held for 5 consecutive elections.

Current Member of Parliament

Caroline Dinenage

Caroline Dinenage

Conservative and Unionist Party

Dame Caroline Dinenage is the Conservative MP for Gosport, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010.

Notable Votes

Vote on New Clause 106, which sought to require women to have an in-person medical consultation before receiving abortion medication, as a safety measure. This was debated alongside New Clause 1, which would have decriminalised abortion for women, making it a free vote on conscience issues around abortion law reform.

MP voted NoAgainst party majorityLikely whipped

Vote on a package of government new clauses to the Crime and Policing Bill at Report Stage, covering measures including: criminalising organising begging for profit, stronger protections for emergency workers against racial and religious abuse, removing the limitation period in child sexual abuse cases, and new offences around internal concealment of items for criminal purposes. The large Aye majority reflects broad government support for these law and order measures.

MP voted YesAgainst party majorityLikely whipped

Vote on whether to strengthen the advertising ban in the Assisted Dying Bill by requiring that any advertising restrictions also cover situations where advertisers know their adverts could influence vulnerable people's choices — going further than the basic ban proposed by the bill's sponsor Kim Leadbeater.

MP voted NoAgainst party majorityLikely whipped

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Voting at a Glance

Represented by Con since 2024. Covers Gosport and Lee-on-the-Solent. Population 96,274.

2024 General Election

§ 06This week in Westminster.Live · today’s sittingOrder Paper · refreshed daily

Dinenage’s scheduled Commons activity this week — whipped divisions, oral questions, debates — drawn from the House of Commons Order Paper.

§ 07The record, at a glance.297 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Dinenage has cast the most ballots — a proxy for engagement, not direction. Notable votes are the moments where the whip was free or where they broke ranks.

Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted · cumulative this Parliament
Taxation
78
Economy
60
Education
35
Crime & Policing
33
Employment
22
Schools
18
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10617 Jun 2025
No
Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 117 Jun 2025
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment (b) to New Clause 1413 Jun 2025
No
§ 08The local picture.14 wards

Constituencies are not uniform. Below — the local council make-up, key facts worth knowing, and the neighbouring seats on either side.

WardCouncillorVotesParty
AlverstokeZoe Huggins1,010Conserva
AngleseyAlan David Scard894Conserva
BridgemaryBob Maynard570Liberal
Brockhurst PrivettThomas Michael Finn522Liberal
ElsonRichard Philip Earle682Liberal
FortonPeter John Chegwyn521Liberal
Grange Alver ValleyJonathan Brown749Labour P
Harbourside TownAlan Durrant465Labour P
HardwayKirsty Anne Cox626Liberal
Lee EastKirsten Bradley760Liberal
Lee WestDan Hayes1,018Conserva
Lee WestStevyn Christopher Ricketts954Conserva
Population (2021 Census)
96,274
Electorate 73,261 · 2024 register
Median income
£27,000
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
17.6%
England average 20.0%
Schools
39
29 primary · 4 secondary
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