East Hertfordshire District: Hertford Kingsmead ward

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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.

Who represents you now

Councillors for Hertford Kingsmead, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:

Carl Brittain, Green Party (E&W)
Maura Connolly, Green Party (E&W)
Vicky Glover-Ward, Green Party (E&W)

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 East Hertfordshire council (50 seats in 2026): Conservative 14, Labour 5, Liberal Democrat 10, Green 16, Reform UK 2, Other 3. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of Greens and Liberal Democrats.

Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.

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East Hertfordshire District: Hertford Kingsmead 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

125 people in Hertford Kingsmead 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 East Hertfordshire

Average price £457,417, up 3.7% on a year earlier (July 2026).

Flats and maisonettes: £249,522
Detached houses: £886,059

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

160 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.

violent crime: 47
anti social behaviour: 42
shoplifting: 22
other theft: 12
criminal damage arson: 10
public order: 9

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.

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 — Green Party, Green Party, Green Party elected · turnout 53%

Carl Andrew Brittain	Green Party	851
Maura Catherine Connolly	Green Party	782
Vicky Glover-Ward	Green Party	768
Rosemary Ann Bolton	Conservative and Unionist Party	610
James Clark	Conservative and Unionist Party	491
Beverley Ann Murray	Conservative and Unionist Party	488
Elif Nergis Lewis	Liberal Democrats	486
Andrew James Robert Porrer	Liberal Democrats	458
Geoff Madge	Liberal Democrats	377
Anne Margaret Farnley	Labour Party	366
Rachel Louise Houghton	Labour Party	353
Graham Peter Nickson	Labour Party	331

2019 — Conservative and Unionist Party, Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 36%

Rosemary Ann Bolton	Conservative and Unionist Party	532
Mari Stevenson	Conservative and Unionist Party	446
Steven Graham Watson	Green Party	347
Mary Lily Patricia Nesbitt-Larking	Labour Party	337
Stuart William Arundell Hunt	Liberal Democrats	337
Andrew James Robert Porrer	Liberal Democrats	313

2015 — Conservative and Unionist Party, Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 75%

Jan Goodeve	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,520
Mari Stevenson	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,423
Amanda Mair	Labour Party	610
Hani Latif	Labour Party	532
Freya Waterhouse	Liberal Democrats	419
Victoria Glover-Ward	Green Party	358
Carolyn Westlake	Green Party	326

2011 — Conservative and Unionist Party, Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 44%

Nicholas Wilson	Conservative and Unionist Party	883
Beryl Wrangles	Conservative and Unionist Party	817
Peter Boyle	Labour Party	477
Kester Jones	Labour Party	428
Michael Edwards	Independent	372

2007 — Conservative and Unionist Party, Conservative and Unionist Party elected

Beryl Wrangles	Conservative and Unionist Party	533
Nicholas Wilson	Conservative and Unionist Party	532
Michael Edwards	Independent	410
Stephen Froud	Independent	318
John Foster	Labour Party	217
Jane Page	Labour Party	175
Steven Lock	Liberal Democrats	121
Andrew Porrer	Liberal Democrats	117

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.

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