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.
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
215 people in Hirst ward, 6.1% 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 Northumberland
Average price £212,563, up 7.3% on a year earlier (July 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £105,668
Detached houses: £372,800
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.
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.
2021— Labour Party elected · turnout 24%
Ken Parry
Labour Party
559
Kevin Oliver Wilson
Conservative and Unionist Party
131
John Victor Allen
Reform UK
88
2017— Labour Party elected · turnout 24%
Ken Parry
Labour Party
613
Elizabeth Edna Rixon
Conservative and Unionist Party
90
Juneille Smith
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
72
2013— Labour Party elected · turnout 22%
Kenneth Parry
Labour Party
518
Pauline Thompson
Independent
306
Richard Wearmouth
Conservative and Unionist Party
29
2008— Labour Party elected
Ken Parry
Labour Party
524
Malcolm Peden
Liberal Democrats
369
John Trevelyan
Conservative and Unionist Party
78
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.
What’s It To Me?
Who represents you now
Councillors for Hirst, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
John Allen, 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 Northumberland council (69 seats in 2026): Conservative 28, Labour 8, Liberal Democrat 3, Green 2, Reform UK 19, Other 9. Run by: Conservatives, 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.