Like its equivalent Broxtowe on the west of the city, Gedling is an overwhelmingly white, comfortable, middle-class constituency nestled on the north eastern side of Nottingham.
Of the three major Nottingham suburbs, Labour took Broxtowe and Gedling in 1997 - only Kenneth Clarke’s Rushcliffe remained in Conservative hands. The Conservatives won back control of Gedling Borough Council in May 1999 - 29 of the 57 councillors are now Conservative.
Gedling itself is actually an old mining area but the constituency is more shaped by the middle class, affluent towns of Carlton and Arnold, Porchester and Woodthorpe which border the rich areas of Nottingham such as Mapperley and villages like Burton Joyce. As in Broxtowe and parts of Rushcliffe on the other sides of the constituency, many people commute into Nottingham for work.
There is a small town called Gedling but the name of the constituency derives from the borough council area.