Amber Valley Borough: Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley ward
This is where politics meets your life.
Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the ground around this area — housing sites, schools, protected areas, air quality — and who represents you now.
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Boundary: ONS Open Geography Portal (Open Government Licence). Map tiles: OpenStreetMap.
Amber Valley Borough: Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley ward in numbers
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
100 people in Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley ward, 2% of residents aged 16–64, against 4% across England (August 2026).
Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.
House prices in Amber Valley
Average price £233,295, up 4.8% on a year earlier (July 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £135,123
Detached houses: £338,239
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.
Recorded crime nearby, July 2026
43 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.
violent crime: 23
anti social behaviour: 6
criminal damage arson: 4
other theft: 4
public order: 4
drugs: 2
Source: data.police.uk (Open Government Licence). Centroid of the ONS 2024 boundary. Statistics near this point describe the area, not any household. Recorded crime reflects reporting and policing as well as offending; see the ONS guidance in further reading.
What’s It To Me?
Past elections in this ward
Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.
2023— Labour Party, Conservative and Unionist Party, Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 40%
Linsey Farnsworth
Labour Party
1,158
Trevor Ainsworth
Conservative and Unionist Party
1,065
Julie Whitmore
Conservative and Unionist Party
981
Matt Murray
Conservative and Unionist Party
930
Michael Missett
Labour Party
885
Dean Watson
Labour Party
856
Matt McGuinness
Green Party
376
Kathy Gorman
Green Party
373
Matt Waterfall
Reform UK
331
Ade Nathan
Reform UK
250
Gareth Joseph Alwyne Cresswell
Liberal Democrats
189
Sarah Denise Gent
Liberal Democrats
171
Chris Gent
Liberal Democrats
150
Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.
Who represents you now
Councillors for Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
Trevor Ainsworth, Conservative and Unionist
Matt Murray, Conservative and Unionist
Julie Whitmore, Conservative and Unionist
This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.
Across the whole of Amber Valley council (42 seats in 2026): Conservative 8, Labour 19, Liberal Democrat 1, Green 5, Reform UK 3, Other 6. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration.
Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.