How Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes has changed
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Week of 29 June 2026
THE FRACTURED MARGINAL
Week of 29 June 2026
THE FRACTURED MARGINAL
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes elected Melanie Onn on a Labour majority of 4,803, and her voting record sits Centre Left at -24 across 87 divisions — but the platform's own lean tells a different story. Twelve of twenty-one scored residents sit right of centre against eight on the left, with Hard Right (5) nearly matching Left (6) as the two biggest single blocs, and only one voter occupying the centre ground at all.
The straw poll makes the fragmentation concrete: Conservative and Labour deadlocked on six each, Reform UK just one behind on five, three more scattered to the Liberal Democrats and one to the Greens — a spread that echoes the real 2024 result, where Reform's 10,533 votes ran close behind Labour's 15,336 and ahead of the Conservatives' 8,269. On the national referendums, this seat breaks hard from the country: zero percent yes on shifting power from London to the regions (UK 48% yes) and zero percent on whether the union is