South East · England · 81,078Boundary · 2023

Milton Keynes Central

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Created in the 2023 boundary review, replacing Milton Keynes South.

Dispatch
Apr 2026

A new constituency created in the 2023 boundary review. Won by Lab in its first election in 2024. Covers Milton Keynes, Woburn Sands and Bow Brickhill. Population 117,726, notably young (median age 36 vs 41 nationally). Recorded crime is 68% above the national average.

A reliably loyal Labour backbencher, Emily Darlington has made child online safety her most visible cause since entering Parliament in 2024. She has conducted local surveys, engaged schools and parents, and publicly backed legislation targeting children's access to pornography and harmful social media content -- coverage that has earned her consistent local press attention. In Parliament, her most recent votes have been straightforwardly on-message: supporting the government's position against multiple House of Lords amendments to both the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill and the Pension Schemes Bill, including backing the government's contested power to direct pension fund investments, a provision critics described as overriding trustees' duties to members.

Her parliamentary record is active and disciplined. Voting in 90% of divisions -- above the Commons average -- she has never broken with Labour and scores 100% party alignment. Her 211 contributions across 130 debates span economy and jobs, defence, crime, social care, and health. Two deviations from her party's average stand out: she is notably more aligned with welfare reform (+21 percentage points above the Labour average) and less aligned with assisted-dying safeguards and end-of-life autonomy (both around 12 percentage points below). On disability benefits, she sits at 0% aligned against a party average of 12%.

440
Commons votes
This parliament
£30k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
81.1k
Electorate
2024 GE

Votes more often than 94% of MPs.

Current Member of Parliament

Emily Darlington

Emily Darlington

Labour Party

Emily Darlington is the Labour MP for Milton Keynes Central, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

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Voting at a Glance

A new constituency created in the 2023 boundary review. Won by Lab in its first election in 2024. Covers Milton Keynes, Woburn Sands and Bow Brickhill. Population 117,726, notably young (median age 36 vs 41 nationally). Recorded crime is 68% above the national average.

2024 General Election

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

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

§ 07The record, at a glance.456 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Darlington 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
87
Economy
84
Employment
50
Crime & Policing
47
Education
40
Welfare and Benefits
28
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip

No rebellions or free votes recorded yet.

§ 08The local picture.8 wards

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

WardCouncillorVotesParty
BroughtonUroy Clarke1,652Liberal
Campbell Park Old WoughtonGraham Eaton1,263Liberal
Central Milton KeynesMartin Ronald Petchey1,383Labour P
Danesborough WaltonVictoria Hopkins1,990Conserva
Loughton ShenleyMandy Legg1,457Labour P
MonkstonDuncan Banks1,118Liberal
Shenley Brook EndSaleena Raja1,379Liberal
Woughton FishermeadDonna Juli Fuller1,421Labour P
Population (2021 Census)
117,726
Electorate 81,078 · 2024 register
Median income
£29,700
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
24.7%
England average 20.0%
Schools
54
36 primary · 6 secondary
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