Piper's Hill (Kettering BC Ward)

Piper's Hill Ward (Kettering Borough Council)
Piper's Hill within Kettering Borough
Kettering Borough within Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire within England

Piper's Hill Ward is a 2-member ward within Kettering Borough Council which is statistically regarded as a marginal ward between Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. 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)
Anne Lee (Labour Party (UK))

Kettering Borough Council elections 2007

Duncan Bain (Conservative)
Philip Hollobone MP (Conservative)

Kettering Borough Council elections 2003

Ursula Jones (Conservative)
Jamie Richardson (Conservative)

Kettering Borough Council elections 1999

John Coleman (Liberal Democrat) – served as mayor from 2000 to 2001.
Fred Brown (Conservative)

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 ward, a Labour-held ward.

Piper's Hill (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip Hollobone (E)	836	25.7
	Conservative	Duncan Bain (E)	740	22.7
	Labour	Eileen Hales	461	14.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Coleman	458	14.1
	Labour	Eddie Brace	457	14.0
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Sharman	301	9.3
Turnout			1,702	42.4

Historic ward boundaries (1999–2007)

Kettering Borough Council elections 2003

Kettering Borough Council elections 2003: Piper's Hill Ward
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Conservative	Ursula Jones (E)	487	25.4	+7.6
Conservative	Jamie Richardson (E)	437	22.8	+6.6
Liberal Democrats	John Coleman	391	20.4	−0.7
Liberal Democrats	Helen Gatehouse	291	15.2	−2.4
Labour	Philip Hales	171	8.9	−5.6
Labour	David Joyce	140	7.3	−5.5

Ward summary
Party		Votes	% Votes	% Change	Seats	Change
	Conservative	462	48.2	+14.2	2	+1
	Liberal Democrats	341	35.6	-3.1	0	-1
	Labour	156	16.2	-11.1	0	0
Total votes cast		959
Electorate		2,392
Turnout		40.1%

(Vote count shown is ward average)

Kettering Borough Council elections 1999

Kettering Borough Council elections 1999: Piper's Hill Ward
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	John Coleman (E)	353	21.0
Conservative	Fred Brown (E)	299	17.8
Liberal Democrats	Lilian Coleman	295	17.6
Conservative	Mark Ingram	272	16.2
Labour	Linda Adams	243	14.5
Labour	Sushila Wright	215	12.8

Ward summary
Party		Votes	% Votes	Seats	Change
	Liberal Democrats	324	38.6	1	0
	Conservative	286	34.0	1	+1
	Labour	229	27.3	0	-1
Total votes cast		839
Electorate
Turnout