Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)

Kettering
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Kettering in Northamptonshire.
Location of Northamptonshire within England.
County	Northamptonshire
Electorate	69,610 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Kettering, Desborough, and Rothwell
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of parliament	Philip Hollobone (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	North Northamptonshire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East Midlands

Kettering is a constituency in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Philip Hollobone, a Conservative.

1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Desborough, Kettering, and Rothwell, the Rural Districts of Brixworth, Kettering, and Oxendon, and in the Rural District of Northampton the civil parishes of Great Billing, Little Billing, and Weston Favell.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Kettering, the Urban Districts of Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, and Rothwell, and the Rural Districts of Brixworth and Kettering.

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Kettering, the Urban Districts of Burton Latimer, Corby, Desborough, and Rothwell, and the Rural District of Kettering.

1983-1997: The Borough of Kettering, and the District of Daventry wards of Boughton and Pitsford, Brixworth, Clipston, Moulton, and Overstone and Walgrave.

1997-2010: The Borough of Kettering, and the District of Daventry wards of Boughton and Pitsford, Brixworth, Clipston, Guilsborough, Moulton, Overstone and Walgrave, Spratton, and Welford.

2010-present: The Borough of Kettering.

This constituency covers the major town of Kettering, the smaller towns of Desborough and Rothwell, the small town of Burton Latimer and rural settlements. A semi-rural seat, the preponderance of constituents live in the towns and a minority of the wards form a wide array of rural communities that have civil parish or hamlet status.

The constituency created in 1918 included the generally (in the late 20th century) Labour-majority industrial town of Corby until before the 1983 general election, when Corby gained its own constituency.