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Shrewsbury

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Created in the 2023 boundary review, replacing Shrewsbury and Atcham.

Dispatch
Apr 2026

Won by Lab in its first election in 2024. Covers Shrewsbury, Bayston Hill and Bomere Heath. Population 101,887. Recorded crime is 38% below the national average.

Elected in 2024, Buckley has established herself as an active local advocate while voting with Labour 97.9% of the time -- but her most notable deviations came during the assisted dying debate, where she backed four amendments strengthening safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, diverging sharply from her party's majority on each occasion. Her stance profile shows 100% alignment on assisted-dying-safeguards against a party average of 47%. More recently, she voted against the government's tuition fee rise in March 2026 -- one of a smaller number of Labour MPs willing to break ranks on that issue.

At 79% voting participation, she sits slightly below the Commons average, with 78 parliamentary contributions across 52 debates since 2024. Her speeches cluster around local government, the economy, transport, and the environment. She scores strongly on workers' rights (90%) and progressive taxation (95%), but low on pro-business (11%) and parliamentary scrutiny (12%) -- and sits at 0% on pro-lords-scrutiny, consistently backing the government in overriding Lords amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill. Her deviations from party average are most pronounced on assisted dying and notably low on NHS funding and pension protection votes.

385
Commons votes
This parliament
£27k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
76.6k
Electorate
2024 GE

A new constituency created in the 2023 boundary review.

Current Member of Parliament

Julia Buckley

Julia Buckley

Labour Party

Julia Buckley is the Labour MP for Shrewsbury, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Notable Votes

Vote on regulations to raise university tuition fees in England by 2.71% for 2026-27. The Labour government backed the increase, while opposition MPs (Conservatives) criticised it as an added burden on young people, despite their own party having nearly tripled fees in 2012.

MP voted NoAgainst party majorityLikely whipped

Vote on whether to require the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to automatically produce a financial assessment whenever the government changes its fiscal rules (spending and borrowing targets), not just when major unfunded spending commitments are announced. The amendment aimed to extend the 'fiscal lock' in the Budget Responsibility Bill to cover changes to fiscal targets.

MP voted YesAgainst party majorityLikely whipped

Vote on whether to add a provision to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ensuring that if an independent doctor dies or becomes too ill to complete their assessment before signing off on an assisted dying request, a further referral can be made to another doctor — mirroring an existing provision in the Bill for the attending doctor.

MP voted YesAgainst party majority

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Voting at a Glance

Won by Lab in its first election in 2024. Covers Shrewsbury, Bayston Hill and Bomere Heath. Population 101,887. Recorded crime is 38% below the national average.

2024 General Election

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

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

§ 07The record, at a glance.401 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Buckley 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
Economy
77
Taxation
71
Employment
49
Crime & Policing
41
Welfare and Benefits
28
Constitution and Democracy
25
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Draft Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 202618 Mar 2026
No
Budget Responsibility Bill: Committee: Amendment 904 Sept 2024
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 1220 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
§ 08The local picture.20 wards

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

WardCouncillorVotesParty
AbbeyMary Davies636Liberal
BagleyGarry Burchett419Conserva
BattlefieldDean Carroll574Conserva
Bayston Hill Column SuttonRosemary Dartnall1,724Labour P
Bayston Hill Column SuttonTed Clarke2,160Labour P
Bayston Hill Column SuttonTony Parsons1,712Labour P
Belle VueKate Halliday995Labour P
BowbrookAlex Wagner1,001Liberal
Castlefields DitheringtonAlan Mosley717Labour P
CopthorneRob Wilson995Liberal
HarlescottJeff Anderson370Conserva
LongdenRoger Arthur Evans1,082Liberal
Population (2021 Census)
101,887
Electorate 76,599 · 2024 register
Median income
£27,300
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
17.7%
England average 20.0%
Schools
51
30 primary · 5 secondary
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