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.
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.
2021— Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 30%
Christine Radford
Conservative and Unionist Party
2,051
Jane Lennie
Labour Party
946
John Hounsome
Green Party
239
Katy Brookes-Duncan
Liberal Democrats
177
2017— Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 33%
Christine Radford
Conservative and Unionist Party
1,836
Claire Marie Poole
Labour Party
1,095
Diane Jayne Horn
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
364
Donald Peter Cochrane
Liberal Democrats
213
Mia Woolley
Green Party
87
2013— Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 32%
Christine Radford
Conservative and Unionist Party
1,262
Claire Poole
Labour Party
1,179
Alexis Hira
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
685
Diane Horn
Liberal Democrats
375
2009— Conservative and Unionist Party elected
Christine Radford
Conservative and Unionist Party
1,466
Kevin Parker
Labour Party
1,123
Cynthia Popley
Liberal Democrats
1,094
Edmond Thomson
British National Party
778
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.
Leicestershire County: Shepshed ward in numbers
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
House prices in Leicestershire
Average price £283,205, up 2.7% on a year earlier (July 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £131,704
Detached houses: £410,538
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.
What’s It To Me?
Who represents you now
Councillors for Shepshed, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
Helen Butler, Reform UK
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 Leicestershire council (55 seats in 2026): Conservative 15, Labour 2, Liberal Democrat 11, Green 1, Reform UK 24, Other 2. Run by: Reform UK, 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.