Sherwood Forest is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Michelle Welsh, of the Labour Party.

The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of three local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is close to the national average, and lower than average reliance upon social housing.

In terms of tenure, 70.2% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage by occupants as at the 2011 census across that district.

[6] On the constituency's creation in 1983, Andy Stewart gained the seat for the Conservatives in their landslide victory that year with a small majority of 658.

The Nottinghamshire miners drifted further from Labour during the 1984 strike and Stewart was re-elected with an increased majority in 1987.