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Lewisham East

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May 2026

A safe Lab seat, won with 58% of the vote in 2024. Centred on Lewisham. Population 110,102, notably young (median age 36 vs 41 nationally), a majority-minority constituency. Recorded crime is 49% above the national average.

Daby's most distinctive recent move was backing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in three separate rebel votes during June 2025 -- supporting amendments on doctor continuity and new clauses on guidance and devolution -- at a time when Labour's majority voted the other way. Her stance profile flags a strong pro-assisted-dying-access lean (78%, some 30 points above her party average), alongside a notably lower alignment with assisted-dying safeguards than the Labour norm, making her a consistent liberaliser on this issue rather than a fence-sitter.

Beyond that break, Daby is a 99.1% party-line voter and a moderately active parliamentarian, turning out for 68% of divisions. Her 317 speech contributions span education, economy and jobs, social care, and the labour market -- topics that track her background as a former social worker and her previous ministerial brief in the Department for Education, where she focused on children's social care and kinship carers after 2024. She scores 100% on pension protection votes, well above Labour's 35% average, and sits on the International Development Committee. Her pro-workers-rights and pro-progressive-taxation stances are near-total, while she is markedly sceptical of pro-business and Lords-scrutiny positions.

341
Commons votes
This parliament
£32k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
73.4k
Electorate
2024 GE

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

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

§ 07The record, at a glance.345 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Daby 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
62
Economy
59
Employment
38
Crime & Policing
37
Constitution and Democracy
29
Education
28
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 1220 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 213 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 113 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
§ 08The local picture.7 wards

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

WardCouncillorVotesParty
BellinghamJacq Paschoud925Labour P
BellinghamRachel Onikosi1,209Labour P
Catford SouthEva Alina Stamirowski1,648Labour P
Catford SouthJames Royston1,632Labour P
Catford SouthNatasha Burgess2,119Labour P
DownhamAndre Bourne1,679Labour P
DownhamCoral Howard1,621Labour P
DownhamOana Olaru-Holmes1,442Labour P
Grove ParkHilary Moore1,502Labour P
Grove ParkMark Jackson1,464Labour P
Grove ParkSuzannah Clarke1,750Labour P
Hither GreenKim Amanda Powell2,230Labour P
Population (2021 Census)
110,102
Electorate 73,380 · 2024 register
Median income
£32,400
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
24.4%
England average 20.0%
Schools
37
24 primary · 4 secondary
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