Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside
Kim Johnson has been an MP since 2019.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill | 2024 | |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Skills and Post-16 Education [HL] Bill | 2021 | |
| Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill | 2021 | |
| Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill | 2021 | |
| Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Education Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Women and Equalities Committee | 2020 to 2024 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Kim Johnson has 7 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Everton Football Club Limited - £376.30 | 11 May 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Randox Laboratories Ltd - £938.00 | 5 May 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Ghana between 28 July 2025 and 03 August 2025 | 9 Sep 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | A Member of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union Executive Committee. This is an unpaid role. | 20 Nov 2023 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. This is an unpaid role. | 26 Apr 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Liverpool City Region Freeport Board. This is an unpaid role. | 22 Apr 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | Voluntary Board Member of SQUASH, Liverpool, a community interest company based in the Liverpool Riverside constituency (a creative food enterprise to empower and enable social change). This is an unpaid role. | 6 Jan 2020 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Kim Johnson asked 268 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
59 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Kim Johnson represents Liverpool Riverside. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Kim Johnson won with 62% of the votes, and Chris Coughlan (Green Party) came second with 16%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Johnson | Labour | 20,039 | 61.9% |
| Chris Coughlan | Green Party | 5,246 | 16.2% |
| Gary Hincks | Reform UK | 3,272 | 10.1% |
| Rebecca Turner | Liberal Democrat | 1,544 | 4.8% |
| Jane Austin | Conservative | 1,155 | 3.6% |
| Roger Bannister | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 622 | 1.9% |
| Sean Weaver | Liberal | 256 | 0.8% |
| Stephen McNally | National Health Action Party | 247 | 0.8% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Kim Johnson took part in 197 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Kim Johnson voted the same way as their party in 196 of the 197 votes where parties gave instructions (99%), and went the other way in 1.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (1)
| Date | Vote | They voted | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Mar | Courts and tribunals: the first main vote | Against | For |
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 95% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this