Portsmouth South
Stephen Morgan (Labour) has been MP for Portsmouth South since 8 June 2017. Contact details on the Parliament website ↗
The constituency
7 whole wards, 107,868 residents at the 2021 Census. July 2024 boundaries.
Ward-based figures below are possible because every ward lies wholly inside one constituency: the wards’ Census 2021 population adds up to 107,868, against ONS’s constituency total of 107,870 (a difference of 2 from disclosure control).
Key figures against the rest of the city
Census 2021 shares, built from whole wards with summed counts. Constituency beside Other constituency and City.
| Census 2021 | Portsmouth South | Portsmouth North | Portsmouth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes rented privately | 36.4% | 20.0% | 28.6% |
| Homes rented from a council or housing association | 20.4% | 15.3% | 18.0% |
| People aged 65 or over | 13.0% | 16.7% | 14.8% |
| People in bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 4.8% | 5.0% |
| People with no qualifications | 15.4% | 19.7% | 17.4% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 20.2% | 18.5% | 19.4% |
Census figures describe March 2021. Differences are percentage points.
Work and benefits
Published for the constituency itself. Official data · ONS claimant count
5.1%
of residents aged 16 to 64 claiming unemployment-related benefits Office for National Statistics (Nomis) ↗ · retrieved 9 Nov 2026
4,025 people. Portsmouth North: 3.7%; Portsmouth: 4.5%; England: 4.1%.
Solid: Portsmouth South. Dashed: England. Monthly, January 2014 to September 2026. Experimental claimant count (Jobseeker’s Allowance plus Universal Credit claimants required to seek work). Monthly, not seasonally adjusted. Constituency series are published on July 2024 boundaries.
Homes and shared housing
£242,000 median sale price (year ending March 2026, 1,045 sales), up from £45,000 in the year ending March 1996. Portsmouth North: £275,000. Constituency Flats £170,000, terraced £260,000, semi-detached £433,750, detached £530,000. Not adjusted for inflation. ONS ↗
- 5.7 council HMO register records per 100 homes (2,773 records; Portsmouth North: 0.7). Records are licence entries, not properties; homes from Census 2021. Shared housing →
- 188 shared-house change-of-use applications in the council’s HMO register since 2009 (Portsmouth North: 96).
- 101 brownfield register sites with room for at least 7,163 homes as published. Planning →
Crime
Police.uk mapped records summed over the wards. Locations are approximate; anti-social behaviour is counted separately; rates use Census 2021 residents.
- 14,315 mapped crimes (excluding anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026: 133 per 1,000 residents (Portsmouth North: 95). The year before: 14,762.
- 1,945 anti-social behaviour incidents in the same months.
Projects in this constituency
Projects linked to its wards by council declarations or site location. Links are navigation aids, not impact areas.
- City Centre North — former Tricorn and Sainsbury’s sites proposed
- Bransbury Park leisure and healthcare hub in progress
City-wide: Football facilities — Levelling Up attribution unconfirmed.
City-wide issues
These are measured for the whole of Portsmouth; no constituency split is published for them.
- The cost of living · 10.9% (2024) · Cost of living
- Homes and homelessness · 6.9 per 1,000 households (31 March 2026) · Housing
- Shared housing (HMOs) · 3,125 records (council combined HMO register, September 2026) · Shared housing
- Crime and anti-social behaviour · 114 per 1,000 residents (2025/26) · Crime and ASB
- Schools, SEND and attendance · 42.9% (2025) · Schools and SEND
- Health and access to care · 31.4% (June 2026) · Health
- Poverty, jobs and pay · 4.5% (September 2026) · Poverty and work
- Fly-tipping and street cleanliness · 4.4 per 1,000 residents (2024/25) · Environment
- Sewage spills and flood defences · 329 counted spills (2025) · Environment
- Air pollution and traffic · 4.9% (2024) · Environment
- Council services and finances · £22,300,000 (31 March 2027) · Council
In Parliament
Stephen Morgan’s own words on shared housing (HMOs), quoted verbatim. Other topics are not yet collected.
11 April 2019 · Written question (asked) · Multiple Occupation
“To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that Houses of Mulitple Occupancy are managed effectively in (a) the UK and (b) Portsmouth.”
Source ↗11 April 2019 · Written question (asked) · Multiple Occupation: Hampshire and Plymouth
“To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many registered Houses of Mulitple Occupancy there are in (a) Portsmouth, (b) Southampton and (c) Plymouth.”
Source ↗6 February 2024 · Written question (asked) · Fire Prevention: Certification
“…the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing mandatory fire certificates for (a) houses in multiple occupation, (b) hospitals, (c) shopping centres and (d) other designated premises where people congregate in significant numbers.”
Source ↗
Councillors in this constituency
Central Southsea
- Kate Dorrington Liberal Democrat
- Charlotte Gerada Labour · Group Leader
- Suzy Horton Liberal Democrat · Deputy Lord Mayor
Charles Dickens
- Cal Corkery Non Aligned Independent
- Sam Coupland Reform UK
- Rajah Ghosh Liberal Democrat
Eastney and Craneswater
- Peter Candlish Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Transport
- Nicholas Dorrington Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Children, Families & Education
- Matthew Winnington Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Community Wellbeing, Health & Care
Fratton
- Billy Ansell Liberal Democrat
- Dave Ashmore Liberal Democrat
- Stuart Brown Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Environmental Services
Milton
- Kimberly Barrett Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Greening the City
- Steve Pitt Liberal Democrat · Leader of the Council (with portfolio responsibility for Culture, Regeneration & Economic Development)
- Gerald Vernon-Jackson CBE Liberal Democrat
St Jude
- Graham Heaney Labour · Deputy Group Leader
- Hugh Mason Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Planning Policy & City Development
- Denise Perry Liberal Democrat
St Thomas
- Chris Attwell Liberal Democrat · Cabinet Member for Central Services
- Ian Holder Liberal Democrat
- Mark Jeffery Liberal Democrat
Sources: Ward to Westminster Parliamentary Constituency to LAD to CTYUA (May 2025) Lookup in the UK (retrieved 2026-11-09) · Census 2021 TS001: number of usual residents, July 2024 constituencies (retrieved 2026-11-09) · Claimant count by sex and age (retrieved 2026-11-09) · Claimant count by sex and age (Portsmouth and England) (retrieved 2026-11-09) · ONS house prices by constituency.