Portsmouth South
UK parliamentary constituency
Current MP
Stephen Morgan
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Latest result
2024 General Election — Labour held the seat with 48.4% of the vote, majority of 13,155.
Turnout: 38,928
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2024 General Election →
Turnout 38,928| ●Labour | 18,857 | 48.4% |
| Reform UK | 5,702 | 14.7% |
| Conservative | 5,643 | 14.5% |
| Liberal Democrat | 4,886 | 12.6% |
| Green Party | 3,107 | 8.0% |
| Portsmouth Independent Party | 733 | 1.9% |
Most-signed petitions in Portsmouth South
Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.
- Do not introduce Digital ID cards4,537 local · 2,984,191 total
- Call a General Election3,938 local · 3,084,713 total
- Call an immediate general election1,745 local · 1,059,229 total
- Repeal the Online Safety Act1,141 local · 550,136 total
- Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants984 local · 720,772 total
- Keep 5-Year ILR and Restrict Access to Benefits for New ILR Holders794 local · 244,450 total
- Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers555 local · 427,447 total
- Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders480 local · 188,125 total
- Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold416 local · 189,887 total
- Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data405 local · 260,974 total
- Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there377 local · 257,442 total
- Tighten the rules on political donations349 local · 144,783 total
- Close the borders! Suspend ALL immigration for 5 years!338 local · 229,772 total
- Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.332 local · 128,749 total
- Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000 312 local · 281,794 total
- Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures307 local · 257,938 total
- Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions304 local · 209,956 total
- Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership297 local · 239,407 total
- Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill292 local · 166,495 total
- Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza282 local · 198,966 total
About Portsmouth South
Portsmouth South is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in England and has a registered electorate of 73,711 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.
Sources: UK Parliament Members API, ONS Open Geography Portal, petition.parliament.uk. Parliament ID: 4247.
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