Joani Reid, MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven
Joani Reid has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Home Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill | 2025 | |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
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.
Joani Reid has 7 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Earthcott Ltd - £2,400.00 | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in London | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Family members engaged in third-party lobbying | David Taylor employed as Lobbyist | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in Reid Strategy Limited | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in [redacted] RTM Company Limited | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid director of a residents property management company. This is an unpaid role. | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Project board member of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, a Scottish charitable incorporated organisation. This is an unpaid role. | 2 Aug 2024 |
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.
Joani Reid asked 17 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.
65 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
Joani Reid represents East Kilbride and Strathaven. 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
Joani Reid won with 49% of the votes, and Grant Costello (Scottish National Party) came second with 29%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joani Reid | Labour | 22,682 | 48.6% |
| Grant Costello | Scottish National Party | 13,625 | 29.2% |
| Ross Lambie | Conservative | 3,547 | 7.6% |
| David Mills | Reform UK | 3,377 | 7.2% |
| Ann McGuinness | Scottish Green Party | 1,811 | 3.9% |
| Aisha Mir | Liberal Democrat | 1,074 | 2.3% |
| David Richardson | Scottish Family Party | 505 | 1.1% |
| Donald MacKay | UK Independence Party | 86 | 0.2% |
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 Joani Reid took part in 114 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Joani Reid voted the same way as their party in 104 of the 107 votes where parties gave instructions (97%), and went the other way in 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 6 Jul | Threats to national security from other states: changes from the House of Lords | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (3)
| Date | Vote | They voted | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun | Armed forces rules: a proposed change | Against | For |
| 2 Jun | Armed forces rules: a proposed change | Against | For |
| 2 Jun | Armed forces rules: a proposed change | 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% |
| Jun 26 | 70% | 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