Battersea lies entirely within Wandsworth and covers the northern and central parts of the Battersea area together with neighbouring parts of Balham. Its wards include Latchmere, Northcote, Queenstown, Shaftesbury and St Mary’s Park, alongside Balham and part of Fairfield. The constituency extends from the River Thames south through dense inner-London neighbourhoods toward Clapham and Balham. Much of the seat is heavily built up, but its character varies from riverside and inner-city areas in the north to established residential streets farther south. Railways, major roads and the Thames form important physical features, while the constituency remains compact compared with many outer-London seats.
Election data comes from UK Parliament. Turnout percentage is calculated by Project Open Gov from Parliament's turnout and electorate figures.
People and place
A population and household snapshot for Battersea, using validated House of Commons Library constituency datasets.
Estimated population115,748
EstimateMid-2024 estimate
Region / nationLondon
Age profile
0 to 1716.3% · 18,826 people
18 to 248.8% · 10,178 people
25 to 3431.6% · 36,615 people
35 to 4920.7% · 23,931 people
50 to 6413.8% · 15,967 people
65 and over8.8% · 10,231 people
Population figures are mid-2024 estimates from the House of Commons Library. Project Open Gov calculates the estimated population shown above by summing the six published age-band counts. View population source ↗
Home ownership and renting
Housing tenure shows how households in this constituency described their home at the most recent census.
47,736 householdsCensus 2021
Home owners37.0% · 17,663 households
Private renters38.0% · 18,143 households
Social renters22.5% · 10,762 households
Other tenure2.4% · 1,168 households
“Other tenure” combines shared ownership and households recorded as living rent free.
Housing-tenure figures come from the most recent census: 2021 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2022 in Scotland. View housing-tenure source ↗
Household composition
A broad view of household types in this constituency. Project Open Gov uses the four broad groups supplied by the Commons Library so the presentation remains consistent across the UK.
47,736 householdsCensus 2021
One-person households31.4% · 14,998 households
Families with dependent children22.4% · 10,695 households
Other single-family households28.8% · 13,755 households
Other household types17.4% · 8,288 households
Household-composition figures come from the Commons Library constituency dataset. The source uses census data and Project Open Gov displays its broad household groups rather than attempting to harmonise the detailed categories itself. View household-composition source ↗
Disability and day-to-day activities
The source records whether day-to-day activities are limited and uses separate person-level tables for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
108,897 people in the source baseCensus 2021Source comparison: England & Wales
Day-to-day activities limited a lot4.2% · 4,593 people
Day-to-day activities limited a little6.4% · 6,925 people
Not disabled under the Equality Act89.4% · 97,379 people
Comparison note: the workbook uses different source terminology across the UK: England & Wales uses “Disabled under the Equality Act”, while Scotland and Northern Ireland use “Disabled” / “Non-disabled”. Project Open Gov therefore preserves the source categories and does not present them as one single like-for-like UK legal definition.
Disability figures come from the Commons Library constituency workbook. This profile uses the person-level tables only; the workbook also contains separate household-level disability tables which are not used here. View disability source ↗
This constituency in Parliament
A high-confidence subset of current-session parliamentary records from this constituency's current MP where the full constituency name is stated explicitly in the written question, debate title or recorded section.
This is not a complete record of every local issue raised in Parliament. Project Open Gov does not currently infer a constituency connection from the MP relationship alone, speech text, nearby place names or other local entities.
Written question29 June 2026
Gynaecology: Battersea
Raised by Marsha De Cordova MP
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce gynaecology waiting times in Battersea.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the eating disorder services are available to adults in Battersea and the NHS South West London Integrated Care Board area.
Open UK Government and Parliament petitions that have reached at least 10,000 signatures nationally, ranked here by the number of signatures recorded in this constituency.
Petition signatures are not a poll and do not show what the constituency as a whole thinks. A person can also sign more than one petition.
Open petitionCloses 12 September 2026
Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership
Signatures in this constituency414
Signatures nationally244,689
Government response published · Debate scheduled for 29 June 2026
Signature counts come from the official UK Government and Parliament petitions data and may change while a petition remains open. Browse official petitions ↗
Funding and local projects
National Lottery grants awarded to organisations recorded in this parliamentary constituency since 4 July 2024.
The constituency is based on the recipient organisation recorded in the source data. The funded activity may sometimes take place across a wider area.
Grants recorded86
Total awarded£5,434,575
Most recent awards
National Lottery grantAwarded 19 June 2026
Community Digital Inclusion Hub
FUTURE PATHWAYS COMMUNITY TECH REPAIR & RECYCLING
£12,000
The National Lottery Community Fund · Charitable and Community including Health, Education and Environment
About this award
FUTURE PATHWAYS COMMUNITY TECH REPAIR & RECYCLING - Community - National Lottery Awards for All England
National Lottery grantAwarded 10 June 2026
LIFT-Off
Battersea Arts Centre
£360,000
Arts Council England · Arts
About this award
LIFT-Off - Theatre - National Lottery Project Grants
12-month interdisciplinary R&D exploration for Community Art
Grant to individual
£12,000
Arts Council England · Arts
About this award
12-month interdisciplinary R&D exploration for Community Art - Not discipline specific - National Lottery Project Grants
National Lottery grantAwarded 21 May 2026
The Patmore People's Food Garden
Patmore Co-operative Ltd
£19,462
The National Lottery Community Fund · Charitable and Community including Health, Education and Environment
About this award
Patmore Co-operative Ltd - Environment - National Lottery Awards for All England
81 more awards are available.
Source: DCMS National Lottery Grants Database. The figures shown cover awards from 4 July 2024 to 1 July 2026. View official grants data ↗
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