Gosport constituency lies on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour and is centred on Gosport and Lee-on-the-Solent. The peninsula setting gives the seat a strong maritime character, with Portsmouth Harbour to the east and the Solent along its southern edge. Gosport is the largest urban centre, with extensive residential neighbourhoods and long-standing naval connections, while Lee-on-the-Solent provides a separate coastal community to the west. The constituency is predominantly built up, although parks, airfield land and coastal open spaces create significant breaks in development. Ferry connections link Gosport directly with Portsmouth, while road access runs north through Fareham.
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 Gosport, using validated House of Commons Library constituency datasets.
Estimated population97,447
EstimateMid-2024 estimate
Region / nationSouth East
Age profile
0 to 1719.1% · 18,625 people
18 to 247.4% · 7,182 people
25 to 3411.4% · 11,120 people
35 to 4917.2% · 16,793 people
50 to 6420.7% · 20,196 people
65 and over24.1% · 23,531 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.
41,985 householdsCensus 2021
Home owners66.4% · 27,862 households
Private renters17.6% · 7,391 households
Social renters14.8% · 6,210 households
Other tenure1.2% · 522 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.
41,984 householdsCensus 2021
One-person households31.3% · 13,135 households
Families with dependent children25.6% · 10,766 households
Other single-family households39.7% · 16,656 households
Other household types3.4% · 1,427 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.
96,270 people in the source baseCensus 2021Source comparison: England & Wales
Day-to-day activities limited a lot7.9% · 7,613 people
Day-to-day activities limited a little12.2% · 11,751 people
Not disabled under the Equality Act79.9% · 76,906 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 question8 July 2026
Military Bases: Gosport
Raised by Dame Caroline Dinenage MP
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation on setting a disposal date for Fort Blockhouse.
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 21 October 2026
Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases
Signatures in this constituency594
Signatures nationally105,312
Government response published · Debate scheduled for 19 October 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 recorded28
Total awarded£1,276,515
Most recent awards
National Lottery grantAwarded 25 June 2026
Veterans Dementia Support UK
Veterans Dementia Support UK
£5,140
The National Lottery Community Fund · Charitable and Community including Health, Education and Environment
About this award
Veterans Dementia Support UK - Community - National Lottery Awards for All England
National Lottery grantAwarded 2 April 2026
Gosport Community Hub for over 65's
The Brendoncare Foundation
£19,820
The National Lottery Community Fund · Charitable and Community including Health, Education and Environment
About this award
The Brendoncare Foundation - Community - National Lottery Awards for All England
National Lottery grantAwarded 3 February 2026
Community Engagement through Pay and Play
Alverstoke Lawn Tennis Squash and Badmin ton Club
£870
Sport England · Sport
About this award
This project will allow the club to provide an increased pay and play offer opening from 8am - 10pm 7 days a week. Funding would pay for a combined key fob reader and digital keypad and a software update to allow the bookings to be managed through Clubspark.
National Lottery grantAwarded 22 January 2026
MHA Communities Hampshire South
MHA Communities Hampshire South
£19,911
The National Lottery Community Fund · Charitable and Community including Health, Education and Environment
About this award
MHA Communities Hampshire South - Community - National Lottery Awards for All England
National Lottery grantAwarded 10 December 2025
Gosport Waterfront Heritage Project
The Inspiration Federation
£16,788
The National Lottery Heritage Fund · Heritage
About this award
The Gosport Waterfront Heritage Project (GWHP) will work with local historians, teachers and young people to uncover historical information about Gosport’s coastline, which has always stood in the shadow of its larger neighbour -Portsmouth harbour. Young people will investigate historical archives/records revealing the history of Gosport’s changing coastline over the centuries. This one-off project aims to educate the local community of Gosport’s changing coastal landscape, from medieval defences/fortifications, to wartime efforts from Napoleonic Wars to WW2 D-Day operations. Through archives/records, historical photographs/artwork, and historical maps, it’ll also reveal Gosport’s lost trades/industries. Young people will work with professional artists, creating paintings of Gosport’s changing historical coastline. They’ll be upskilled learning new historical research and exhibition creation techniques, creating engaging exhibitions of their research and artwork for the wider community. The project will create GWHP teaching/learning resources for local schools, enabling hundreds of future young people to benefit from the projects’ legacy.
23 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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