Piper's Hill Ward is a two-member ward within
Kettering Borough Council
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which is statistically regarded as a marginal ward between
Liberal Democrats and the
Conservatives
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. The ward was last fought at borough council level in the
2015 local council elections, in which one seat was won by the Conservatives and one seat was won by Labour.
The current councillors are Cllr. Duncan Bain and Cllr. Anne Lee.
Councillors
Kettering Borough Council elections 2015
*Duncan Bain (
Conservative
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)
*
Anne Lee (
Labour Party (UK)
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)
Kettering Borough Council elections 2007
*Duncan Bain (
Conservative
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)
*
Philip Hollobone
Philip Thomas Hollobone (born 7 November 1964) is a former British Conservative Party politician and former investment banker. He was the Member of Parliament for Kettering from the 2005 general election to the 2024 general election.
Early li ...
MP (
Conservative
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)
Kettering Borough Council elections 2003
*Ursula Jones (
Conservative
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)
*Jamie Richardson (
Conservative
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)
Kettering Borough Council elections 1999
*John Coleman (
Liberal Democrat
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) – served as
mayor
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from 2000 to 2001.
*Fred Brown (
Conservative
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)
Current ward boundaries (2007–)
Kettering Borough Council elections 2007
*At the 2007 elections, Piper's Hill ward was enlarged with part of the former
Warkton
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ward, a Labour-held ward.
Historic ward boundaries (1999–2007)
Kettering Borough Council elections 2003
(Vote count shown is ward average.)
Kettering Borough Council elections 1999
(Vote count shown is ward average.)
See also
*
Kettering
Kettering is a market town, market and industrial town, industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west of Cambridge, England, Cambridge, southwest of Peterborough, southeast of Leicester and north- ...
*
Kettering Borough Council
Kettering is a market and industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west of Cambridge, southwest of Peterborough, southeast of Leicester and north-east of Northampton. It is west of the River Is ...
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Electoral wards in Kettering