Council by-election · Flintshire County: Higher Kinnerton ward · Thursday, 15 October 2026
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Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the area around this area, from planning to local statistics, and who represents you now.
Your area · Flintshire County: Higher Kinnerton ward, 15 October 2026 · What’s It To Me?
Life in Flintshire County: Higher Kinnerton ward: the official facts
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
15 people in Higher Kinnerton ward, 1.4% of residents aged 16–64, against 3.4% across Wales (September 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 Flintshire
Average price £214,882, up 2.5% on a year earlier (August 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £105,420
Detached houses: £309,244
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, September 2026
6 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.
anti social behaviour: 3
violent crime: 2
public order: 1
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.
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.
2017— Independent Berwick Hills Resident elected
Mike Allport
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
348
Chris Risley
Labour Party
102
Stephen John Malby
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
68
2012— Independent elected
Phil Lightfoot
Independent
290
Paul Jones
Labour Party
190
Blair Smillie
Independent
75
Janet Axworthy
Conservative and Unionist Party
46
Joanna Hobson
Liberal Democrats
32
2008— Independent elected
Norma Humphreys
Independent
270
Alastair Baker
Liberal Democrats
242
Will Gallagher
Conservative and Unionist Party
158
Graham Jones
Independent
16
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 Higher Kinnerton, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
Mike Allport, Independent / Other
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 Flintshire council (67 seats in 2026): Conservative 1, Labour 27, Liberal Democrat 3, Reform UK 4, Other 32. 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.
