Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)

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Kettering
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Kettering in Northamptonshire
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Location of Northamptonshire within England
County Northamptonshire
Electorate 70,589 (2018) [1]
Major settlements Kettering, Desborough, Burton Latimer and Rothwell
Current constituency
Created 1918
Member of Parliament Philip Hollobone (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from North Northamptonshire and Mid Northamptonshire

Kettering is a constituency [n 1] in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Philip Hollobone, a Conservative. [n 2]

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Boundaries

Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Desborough, Kettering, and Rothwell, the Rural Districts of Brixworth, Kettering, and Oxendon, and in the Rural District of Northampton the parishes of Great Billing, Little Billing, and Weston Favell.

1950–1974: The Municipal Borough of Kettering, the Urban Districts of Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, and Rothwell, and the Rural Districts of Brixworth and Kettering.

1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Kettering, the Urban Districts of Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, and Rothwell, and the Rural District of Kettering.

1983–1997: The Borough of Kettering, and the District of Daventry wards of Boughton and Pitsford, Brixworth, Clipston, Moulton, and Overstone and Walgrave.

1997–2010: The Borough of Kettering, and the District of Daventry wards of Boughton and Pitsford, Brixworth, Clipston, Guilsborough, Moulton, Overstone and Walgrave, Spratton, and Welford.

2010–2021: The Borough of Kettering.

2021–present: The North Northamptonshire Council wards of Burton and Broughton, Clover Hill, Desborough, Ise, Northall, Rothwell and Mawsley, Wicksteed, Windmill

The constituency covers the major town of Kettering, the smaller towns of Desborough, Rothwell and Burton Latimer together with a number of villages. A semi-rural seat, the preponderance of constituents live in the towns and a minority of the wards form a wide array of rural communities that have civil parish or hamlet status.

The constituency created in 1918 included the generally (in the late 20th century) Labour-majority industrial town of Corby until the 1983 general election, when Corby gained its own constituency.

The Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposed an additional seat due to population growth in the county. Parliament approved its recommendations for 2010 which made way for the new constituency of South Northamptonshire therefore the constituency lost some wards in these boundary changes. [n 3]

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be unchanged, except for the addition of polling districts CRWB, CRWC, CRWD, CRWE, CSCB and CSCC in the Corby Rural ward, transferred from the Corby constituency. [2]

Constituency profile

Economically, it is predominantly middle-class, well within managerial/directorial commuter zones for London and the West Midlands. Industry continues in some sectors ranging from, for example, lingerie, [3] food production, rigid containers, abattoirs, to the Weetabix factory in Burton Latimer, but the industrial activity of the area, as with the rest of the county, is reduced whereas the wider area's headline gross value added for the area per head has been mostly consistently higher, from £11,667 in 1997 in North Northamptonshire to £17,835. [n 4] [4]

In 2005 The Guardian described it as:

'[A] mixed industrial town in Northamptonshire with good links to London.'

Members of Parliament

The current Member of Parliament is Philip Hollobone of the Conservative Party. He was elected in 2005 when he defeated the sitting Labour MP, Phil Sawford, in an election which nationally saw a reduced majority for the Blair Ministry.

Kettering Constituency (1918-present)

ElectionMember [5] Party
1918 Alfred Waterson Co-operative
1922 Owen Parker Conservative
1923 Samuel Perry Labour Co-operative
1924 Mervyn Manningham-Buller Conservative
1929 Samuel Perry Labour Co-operative
1931 John Eastwood Conservative
1940 by-election John Profumo Conservative
1945 Gilbert Mitchison Labour
1964 Geoffrey de Freitas Labour
1979 Bill Homewood Labour
1983 Roger Freeman Conservative
1997 Phil Sawford Labour
2005 Philip Hollobone Conservative

Mid Northamptonshire Constituency (1885-1918)

Prior to boundary changes in 1918, at least the majority of modern-day Kettering Constituency laid within the Mid Northamptonshire constituency.

North Northamptonshire Constituency (1832-1885)

Prior to boundary changes in 1885, at least the majority of modern-day Kettering Constituency laid within the North Northamptonshire constituency, which elected two members to Parliament.

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Hollobone [6]
Reform UK Daniel Monie [7]
Labour Rosie Wrighting [8]
Majority
Turnout

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Kettering [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Hollobone 29,787 60.3 Increase2.svg 2.4
Labour Clare Pavitt13,02226.4Decrease2.svg 10.1
Liberal Democrats Chris Nelson3,3676.8Increase2.svg 3.5
Independent Jim Hakewill1,6423.3New
Green Jamie Wildman1,5433.1Increase2.svg 0.8
Majority16,76533.9Increase2.svg 12.5
Turnout 49,36167.4Decrease2.svg 1.7
Conservative hold Swing Increase2.svg 6.25
General election 2017: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Hollobone 28,616 57.9 Increase2.svg 6.1
Labour Mick Scrimshaw18,05436.5Increase2.svg 11.3
Liberal Democrats Suzanna Austin1,6183.3Increase2.svg 0.1
Green Rob Reeves1,1162.3Decrease2.svg 1.2
Majority10,56221.4Decrease2.svg 5.2
Turnout 49,40469.1Increase2.svg1.8
Conservative hold Swing Decrease2.svg 2.6
General election 2015: Kettering [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Hollobone 24,467 51.8 +2.7
Labour Rhea Keehn [11] 11,87725.2-4.7
UKIP Jonathan Bullock [12] 7,60016.1New
Green Rob Reeves [13] 1,6333.5New
Liberal Democrats Chris McGlynn1,4903.2-12.6
English Democrat Derek Hilling [14] 1510.3-1.7
Majority12,59026.6+7.4
Turnout 47,21867.3-1.5
Conservative hold Swing +3.75
General election 2010: Kettering [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Hollobone 23,247 49.1 +6.2
Labour Phil Sawford 14,15329.9-12.7
Liberal Democrats Chris Nelson7,49815.8+3.6
BNP Clive Skinner1,3662.9New
English Democrat Derek Hilling9522.0New
Bus-Pass Elvis Dave Bishop1120.2New
Majority9,09419.2+13.2
Turnout 47,32868.8-0.4
Conservative hold Swing +9.4

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Kettering [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Hollobone 25,401 45.6 +2.1
Labour Phil Sawford 22,10039.7-5.0
Liberal Democrats Roger Aron6,88212.4+2.2
UKIP Rosemarie Clarke1,2632.3+0.6
Majority3,3015.9N/A
Turnout 55,64668.0-0.1
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +3.55
General election 2001: Kettering [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Phil Sawford 24,034 44.7 +1.4
Conservative Philip Hollobone 23,36943.5+0.5
Liberal Democrats Roger Aron5,46910.2-0.5
UKIP Barry Mahoney8801.6New
Majority6651.2+0.9
Turnout 53,75268.1-7.4
Labour hold Swing +0.45

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Kettering [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Phil Sawford 24,650 43.3 +11.4
Conservative Roger Freeman 24,46143.0−9.8
Liberal Democrats Roger Aron6,09810.7−4.7
Referendum Arthur E. Smith15512.7New
Natural Law Rosemary le Carpentier1970.3New
Majority1890.3N/A
Turnout 56,95775.5−7.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +9.9
General election 1992: Kettering [19] [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Roger Freeman 29,115 52.0 +0.9
Labour Co-op Phil Hope 17,96132.1+12.4
Liberal Democrats Richard D. Denton-White8,96216.0−13.3
Majority11,15419.9−1.8
Turnout 56,03882.6+3.8
Conservative hold Swing −5.7

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Kettering [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Roger Freeman 26,532 51.0 +2.6
SDP Celia Goodhart 15,20529.3−1.2
Labour Ashley M. Minto10,22919.7−1.4
Majority11,32721.7+3.8
Turnout 51,19678.8+2.4
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1983: Kettering [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Roger Freeman 23,223 48.4 -0.2
SDP Celia Goodhart 14,63730.5+18.4
Labour Alex Gordon10,11921.1-18.3
Majority8,58617.9N/A
Turnout 47,97976.4-2.9
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +14.7

Note: The boundary changes to the seat for the 1983 election meant that this seat would have been won by the Conservatives in 1979, as parts of the seat were moved into the newly created seat of Corby which was notionally Labour on the new boundaries and thus saw William Homewood attempt (unsuccessfully albeit) to seek re-election there.

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour William Homewood 31,579 45.0 -4.3
Conservative Rupert Allason 30,10142.9+11.4
Liberal G. Raven8,42412.0-7.2
Majority1,4782.1-15.7
Turnout 70,10479.3+6.1
Labour hold Swing
General election October 1974: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Geoffrey de Freitas 30,970 49.3 +3.4
Conservative G.D. Reed19,80031.5-0.2
Liberal A. James W. Haigh12,03819.2-3.1
Majority11,17017.8+3.6
Turnout 62,80873.2-7.9
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Geoffrey de Freitas 31,659 45.9 -2.3
Conservative G.D. Reed21,87231.7-10.7
Liberal A. James W. Haigh15,39322.3+13.0
Majority9,78714.2+8.4
Turnout 68,92481.1+5.6
Labour hold Swing
General election 1970: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Geoffrey de Freitas 34,803 48.3 -4.3
Conservative John Charles Taylor30,61342.5+6.9
Liberal A. James W. Haigh6,6959.3-2.5
Majority4,1905.8-11.2
Turnout 72,11175.5-5.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Geoffrey de Freitas 35,337 52.6 -2.6
Conservative Trevor E.T. Weston23,87735.6-9.2
Liberal Anthony Smith7,90311.8New
Majority11,46017.0+6.6
Turnout 67,11781.3-0.2
Labour hold Swing
General election 1964: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Geoffrey de Freitas 36,210 55.2 +2.4
Conservative J. Hedley Lewis29,40544.8-2.4
Majority6,80510.4+2.4
Turnout 65,61581.5+4.0
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dick Mitchison 32,933 52.8 -2.4
Conservative Neil Stone29,44847.22.4
Majority3,4855.6-4.8
Turnout 62,38177.5-4.1
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dick Mitchison 31,198 55.2 -0.6
Conservative John F. Nash25,49544.8+0.6
Majority5,90310.4-1.2
Turnout 56,89381.6-5.6
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dick Mitchison 32,604 55.8 +3.2
Conservative C. Peter B. Bailey25,77744.2+5.6
Majority6,82711.6-2.4
Turnout 58,38187.2-0.9
Labour hold Swing
General election 1950: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dick Mitchison 30,243 52.6 -1.0
Conservative Gyles Isham 22,16938.6-3.5
Liberal Ian Morrow 4,6928.2New
Communist L.P. O'Connor3680.6New
Majority8,07414.0+2.5
Turnout 57,47288.1+13.0
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dick Mitchison 29,868 53.6 +5.7
Conservative John Profumo 23,42442.1-10.0
Christian Pacifist PartyJohn Chamberlain Dempsey2,3814.3New
Majority6,44411.5N/A
Turnout 24,53075.1-2.2
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

The British Council commissioned a short film on the 1945 General Election which portrays the contest in the Kettering constituency. [23]

1940 Kettering by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Profumo 17,914 73.0 +20.9
Workers' and Pensioners' Anti-WarW. Ross6,61627.0New
Majority11,29846.0+41.8
Turnout 24,53037.839.5
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Eastwood 22,885 52.1 -8.1
Labour Co-op J.R. Sadler21,04247.9+8.1
Majority1,8434.2-16.1
Turnout 43,92777.3-8.4
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1931: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Eastwood 25,811 60.2 +23.1
Labour Co-op Samuel Perry 17,09539.8-4.0
Majority8,71620.3N/A
Turnout 42,90685.7-0.1
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1929: Kettering [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Samuel Perry 18,253 43.8 4.2
Unionist J. Brown15,46937.114.9
Liberal Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle 7,97219.1New
Majority2,7846.7N/A
Turnout 23,44185.8+1.5
Registered electors 48,588
Labour Co-op gain from Unionist Swing +5.4
General election 1924: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Mervyn Manningham-Buller 16,042 52.0 +17.0
Labour Co-op Samuel Perry 14,80148.0+4.5
Majority1,2414.0N/A
Turnout 30,84384.3+3.0
Registered electors 36,574
Unionist gain from Labour Co-op Swing +6.3
General election 1923: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Samuel Perry 12,718 43.5 6.0
Unionist Owen Parker 10,21235.015.5
Liberal Alfred Yeo 6,27321.5New
Majority2,5068.5N/A
Turnout 29,20381.3+0.3
Registered electors 35,899
Labour Co-op gain from Unionist Swing +4.8
General election 1922: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Owen Parker 14,333 50.5 New
Labour Co-op Alfred Waterson 14,02449.5+1.8
Majority3091.0N/A
Turnout 28,35781.0+15.9
Registered electors 35,024
Unionist gain from Co-operative Party Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Kettering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Co-operative Party Alfred Waterson 10,299 45.7
C Liberal Leland William Buxton7,76134.4
National Algernon Ferguson [25] 4,48919.9
Majority2,53811.3
Turnout 22,54965.1
Registered electors 34,624
Co-operative Party win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

See also

Notes

  1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
  3. Before 2010 it contained some eastern wards of the district of Daventry; the predominant parts of which being based around the large villages of Brixworth and Moulton.
  4. A decrease during the year 2009 was seen to £16,885

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