North Warwickshire & Bedworth.

North Warwickshire and Bedworth sits on the West Midlands' eastern edge, a seat of roughly 93,600 people built around a network of small towns rather than a single centre. Bedworth, a large town of about 29,000, anchors the south; Atherstone, the Polesworth and Dordon cluster, and Coleshill follow, each holding under a tenth of the seat, with a scatter of villages and dispersed countryside between them. The median age of 44 runs a little above the national figure, and at 92 per cent White the area is less diverse than England as a whole. Two district authorities run local services here: North Warwickshire, which supplies fifteen of the seat's wards, and Nuneaton and Bedworth, which supplies five.

The ward picture has moved sharply in the year to spring 2026. Across the most recent contests the Conservatives still hold the largest tally, drawn mainly from older North Warwickshire results, but the latest round in the Bedworth wards went uniformly to Reform UK, which now leads on the freshest figures available. Labour's nine wards and a handful of independents fill out the rest. At parliamentary level the seat is newer still: drawn on 2023 boundaries, it was first contested in 2024, when Labour took it on 36 per cent against a Conservative runner-up on 31, a margin of barely five points. Rachel Taylor has held it for Labour since.

On the figures available the seat looks contested rather than settled, its local politics in visible flux as recent contests reorder which party speaks for which town. Local coverage in recent months has had a churning, reorganisation-heavy character, dominated by the reshaping of Warwickshire's councils and by shifting control at the town-hall level rather than by any single dispute. Against that backdrop two crime categories stand out, with vehicle crime running around 45 per cent above the comparator average and anti-social behaviour about a third above it. The narrow 2024 result and the recent ward swings together leave this a seat whose direction is open rather than fixed.