Kingston upon Hull East.

Kingston upon Hull East is, in effect, one place: the eastern districts of Hull itself, which hold nearly all of the seat's roughly 101,500 residents, with only small fringes at Bilton and dispersed rural pockets beyond the city edge. It is a wholly urban seat, younger than the national profile at a median age of 38 and around 96 per cent White, with a degree-educated share of under a fifth. Local services across all eight wards are run by one unitary authority, Kingston upon Hull City Council.

The ward map has shifted markedly. In the most recent contests, held in May 2026, Reform UK took five of the eight wards, the Liberal Democrats two, and Labour held only one, Ings, on figures dating from 2024. Reform's strongest showings came in the outer estates, while the Liberal Democrats led the inner riverside wards. At Westminster the seat has stayed Labour, which won in 2024 on 43.8 per cent, with Reform UK second on 30.6 per cent. The sitting member, Karl Turner, has held the seat since 2010 and now sits as an Independent.

The direction of travel, on the figures available, is towards a more contested seat: Reform's advance through the wards has eaten into once-settled Labour ground, even as the parliamentary result held. Recent local coverage has had a largely administrative tenor, set against a council that has slipped out of single-party control. Several recorded-crime categories run well above the comparator, with violence and sexual offences and shoplifting each around two-thirds higher. The seat looks, for now, in flux.