Sorcha Eastwood, MP for Lagan Valley
Sorcha Eastwood has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland 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.
No interests are currently registered for Sorcha Eastwood.
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.
Sorcha Eastwood asked 111 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.
75 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
Sorcha Eastwood represents Lagan Valley. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Alliance
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Sorcha-Lucy Eastwood won with 38% of the votes, and Jonathan Buckley (Democratic Unionist Party) came second with 32%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorcha-Lucy Eastwood | Alliance | 18,618 | 37.9% |
| Jonathan Buckley | Democratic Unionist Party | 15,659 | 31.9% |
| Robbie Butler | Ulster Unionist Party | 11,157 | 22.7% |
| Lorna Smyth | Traditional Unionist Voice | 2,186 | 4.5% |
| Simon Lee | Social Democratic & Labour Party | 1,028 | 2.1% |
| Patricia Denvir | Green Party Northern Ireland | 433 | 0.9% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
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Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Sorcha Eastwood took part in 25 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Sorcha Eastwood has not taken part in any votes where parties gave instructions yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | For | n/a |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | n/a |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | For | n/a |
| 28 Apr | Privilege | For | n/a |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
Not enough whipped votes yet to show a trend.
Source: Commons Votes API
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