Council profile

North Northamptonshire

Data through 26 October 2026

Unitary authority · East Midlands · 68 seats in 31 wards · All seats elected every four years · Next election 3 May 2029

Reform UK have a majority on North Northamptonshire Council. The council has 68 councillors in 31 wards. Seats by party: Reform 39, Conservative 11, Green 8, Other 4, Labour 4, Restore Britain 1, Lib Dem 1. The next election is on 3 May 2029.

Seats by party

Reform UK (Majority)
68 seats - 35 for a majority
39
4
11
1
8
1
4
Reform 39Labour 4Conservative 11Lib Dem 1Green 8Restore Britain 1Other 4
Vote share at the 1 May 2025 election (66 seats in 30 wards)
ShareSeats won
Reform31.4%39
Conservative24.0%13
Labour16.7%4
Green16.2%8
Lib Dem7.6%1
Other4.2%1
Next election
3 May 2029
all 68 seats up, then every four years
Largest party
Reform 39
majority of 10; 35 needed
Closest result
Reform won the last seat by 1 vote over Labour, 1 May 2025
Latest by-election
Reform hold, 9 October 2025 (5 since 2021)
Constituencies
2024Now
Voted Leave in 2016
61%
GB 52%

Who holds each ward

Avondale GrangeBarton Seagrave & Burton LatimerBrickhill & QueenswayCorby WestCroyland & SwanspoolDesboroughEarls BartonFinedonGeddington & StanionGretton & WeldonHatton ParkHigham FerrersIrchesterIrthlingboroughIseKettering CentralKettering NorthKingswoodLloyds & Corby VillageOakleyOundlePembertonPipers HillRaundsRothwell & MawsleyRushden LakesRushden SouthSt MichaelSt PeterThrapstonVictoria
LabourConservativeReformGreen

Coloured by the party holding most of the ward's seats today; where seats are split evenly, by the party with the higher share at the last election.

Councillors and last results

Select a ward for its full results, candidates and last by-election.

Ward and councillorsLast election
Avondale Grange
Julie Howe
1 May 2025
Reform 39.3% lead 16.1 pts
Barton Seagrave & Burton Latimer
Maurice Eglin, Leon Gibbs, Jan O'Hara
1 May 2025
Reform 31.8% lead 4.0 pts
Brickhill & Queensway
Gavin Beales, Jonathan Carvetta, Darren Rance
1 May 2025
Reform 32.5% lead 9.6 pts
Corby West
William Colquhoun, David Donnelly, Julie Lumsden
1 May 2025
Reform 41.0% lead 4.4 pts
Croyland & Swanspool
Martin Griffiths, Chris Munday
1 May 2025
Reform 36.1% lead 9.2 pts
Desborough
David Howes, Harry Howes, Bill McElhinney
1 May 2025
Conservative 34.2% lead 4.1 pts
Earls Barton
Scott Brown, Vicki Jessop
1 May 2025
Conservative 36.6% lead 4.6 pts
Finedon
Andy Sims
1 May 2025
Reform 43.4% lead 13.5 pts
Geddington & Stanion
Brendon Lovell-Moore
1 May 2025
Reform 37.4% lead 13.0 pts
Gretton & Weldon
Eddie McDonald, Barry O'Brien
1 May 2025
Reform 34.6% lead 5.2 pts
Hatton Park
Ken Harrington, Paul Brooke, Vinnie Whitrow
1 May 2025
Reform 35.0% lead 6.3 pts
Higham Ferrers
Mark Haddon, Jennie Bone
12 June 2025
Reform 25.5% lead 3.8 pts
Irchester
Jon-Paul Carr, Gordon Dunsmuir, Tom Partridge-Underwood
1 May 2025
Conservative 37.0% lead 5.0 pts
Irthlingborough
Matt Davies, Gregory Wilcox
1 May 2025
Reform 38.6% lead 14.9 pts
Ise
Ben Jameson, Ben Williams
1 May 2025
Green 46.3% lead 20.2 pts
Kettering Central
Liane Robinson, James Towns
1 May 2025
Green 45.2% lead 21.9 pts
Kettering North
Dez Dell, Emily Fedorowycz
1 May 2025
Green 56.9% lead 34.8 pts
Kingswood
Helen Campbell, Graham Cheatley, Vlaho Radin
1 May 2025
Reform 40.6% lead 9.1 pts
Lloyds & Corby Village
Lee Duffy, Mark Pengelly
1 May 2025
Labour 44.2% lead 7.8 pts
Oakley
Trevor Conway, Frank Kilgallon, John Lumsden
1 May 2025
Reform 34.6% lead 8.3 pts
Oundle
Jon Humberstone, Helen Harrison, Simon Fairhall
1 May 2025
Conservative 27.5% lead 1.7 pts
Pemberton
Ash Hall, Chris McGiffen
1 May 2025
Reform 41.8% lead 16.4 pts
Pipers Hill
Denis McLean
1 May 2025
Reform 32.4% lead 7.5 pts
Raunds
Kirk Harrison, Helen Howell, Elizabeth Wright
1 May 2025
Reform 33.3% lead 1.0 pts
Rothwell & Mawsley
Jim Hakewill, Chris Kellett, Brian Benneyworth
1 May 2025
Independent 36.1% lead 14.9 pts
Rushden Lakes
Keith Clarke, Jack Goncalvez
1 May 2025
Reform 43.2% lead 15.1 pts
Rushden South
Barbara Jenney, Steve Clark
1 May 2025
Conservative 36.7% lead 1.1 pts
St Michael
Polly Shackleton
1 May 2025
Green 29.8% lead 3.5 pts
St Peter
Steve Geary
1 May 2025
Green 33.8% lead 1.3 pts
Thrapston
David Brackenbury, Wendy Brackenbury, Joseph Garner
1 May 2025
Reform 31.1% lead 1.1 pts
Victoria
David Baker, Kelly Duddridge
1 May 2025
Labour 26.1% lead 3.7 pts

Changed party since the election

5 councillors now sit for a different party from the one they were elected for.

WardCouncillorElected asNow
DesboroughBill McElhinneyConservative 2025Independent
Earls BartonScott BrownConservative 2025Independent
Higham FerrersJennie BoneConservative 2025Reform
Rushden LakesJack GoncalvezReform 2025Restore Britain
ThrapstonJoseph GarnerReform 2025Independent

Every council by-election since 2021

5 by-elections since July 2021, 1 of them gains.

DateWardResultWinner's share
9 October 2025Lloyds & Corby VillageReform hold38.0%
10 October 2024Burton and BroughtonConservative hold
7 April 2024DesboroughConservative hold
23 March 2023Rushden SouthConservative hold
2 February 2023NorthallLabour gain from Conservative

Parliamentary constituencies

ConstituencyShare of council2024 winnerProjected now
Corby and East Northamptonshire33%LabourLabour 32%
Wellingborough and Rushden32%LabourLabour 30%
Kettering31%LabourLabour 27%
Daventry3%ConservativeConservative 33%
South Northamptonshire2%ConservativeConservative 34%

Share of the council: the proportion of its census neighbourhoods (2021 LSOAs) in each seat. The projection is PollCheck's demographic model at current polling, not a forecast.

Who lives in North Northamptonshire

359,539 residents in 148,926 households

Voted Leave in 2016
61% 9 above GB
Degree or higher
27% 7 below GB
No qualifications
20% 2 above GB
Own their home
65% 4 above GB
Rent from a council or housing association
15% 2 below GB
Rent privately
18% 2 below GB
Aged 15 to 34
29% 2 below GB
Aged 65 and over
22% same as GB

GB figure. 2021 Census (Scotland: 2022): age as a share of residents aged 15 and over, qualifications of residents aged 16 and over, housing as a share of households. Leave: 2016 EU referendum, Electoral Commission results by counting area.

Councils most like this one

Closest on the measures above: the 2016 Leave vote, age, qualifications and housing. Maps show which party holds each ward.

Sources and method

Seat totals and control: PollCheck council control tracker. Councillors: Open Council Data (CC BY-SA 4.0). Election results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), with some vote counts from DCLEAPIL, Leman (2025) (CC BY-SA 4.0), and corrections checked against councils' official declarations. Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Census: Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland.

Councillor lists and DCLEAPIL-derived vote counts on this page are available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In wards electing more than one councillor, a party's share counts only its leading candidate (the Rallings and Thrasher method). Independents count individually. The lead is the gap between the top two parties' shares.