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(1) This Order may be cited as the County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.
(2) This Order shall come into force—
(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;
(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.
(3) In this Order—
 “county” means the county of Northamptonshire;
 “existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made; references to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to district and borough wards in the county; and
 any reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994.
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(1) The existing divisions of the county shall be abolished.
(2) The county shall be divided into seventy-three divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
(3) The divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to wards, or wards and parishes or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each division shall be one.
(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
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The County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
11th September 2000
SCHEDULE
Article 2


(1) (2)
Name of Division Area of Division
 In the borough of Corby
Central
Corby Rural The East, Rural East, Rural North and Rural West wards
Danesholme The Danesholme and Hillside wards
Kingswood The Kingswood and West wards
Lloyds
Shire Lodge The Lodge Park and Shire Lodge wards
 In the district of Daventry
Braunston
Brixworth The Brixworth, Clipston and Spratton wards
Daventry East
Daventry West
Long Buckby The Brampton, Flore and Long Buckby wards
Moulton The Boughton and Pitsford, Moulton and Walgrave wards
Uplands The Crick, Ravensthorpe, Welford, West Haddon and Guilsborough, and Yelvertoft wards
Woodford and Weedon The Byfield, Weedon and Woodford wards
 In the district of East Northamptonshire
Higham Ferrers The Higham Ferrers and Stanwick wards
Irthlingborough The Irthlingborough and Woodford wards
Oundle The Dryden, Lyveden and Oundle wards
Prebendal The Fineshade, Lower Nene, King’s Forest and Prebendal wards
Raunds The Raunds Saxon and Raunds Windmill wards
Rushden East
Rushden South
Rushden West
Thrapston The Barnwell, Ringstead and Thrapston wards
 In the borough of Kettering
Brambleside The Brambleside and All Saints wards
Burton
Desborough The Loatland and St Giles wards
Grange The Avondale and Warkton wards
Ise The Millbrook and Spinney wards
Kettering Central The St Mary’s and St Michael’s wards
Kettering Rural The Buccleuch, Queen Eleanor, Slade and Welland wards
Rothwell The Tresham and Trinity wards
St Andrew’s and St Peter's The St Andrew’s and St Peter’s wards
Wicksteed
 In the borough of Northampton
Abington The Abington ward
Billing The Billing ward
Boughton Green
Castle The Castle ward
Delapre The Delapre ward
East Hunsbury The East Hunsbury ward
Eastfield The Eastfield ward
Ecton Brook The Ecton Brook ward
Headlands The Headlands ward
Kingsley The Kingsley ward
Kingsthorpe
Lumbertubs The Lumbertubs ward
Nene Valley The Nene Valley ward
New Duston The New Duston ward
Old Duston The Old Duston ward
Parklands The Parklands ward
St Crispin The St Crispin ward
St David
St James The St James ward
Spencer The Spencer ward
Thorplands The Thorplands ward
West Hunsbury The West Hunsbury ward
Weston The Weston ward
 In the district of South Northamptonshire
Brackley East The Astwell, Brackley East and Brackley South wards
Brackley West The Brackley West, Little Brook and Steane wards
Bugbrooke The Downs, Grange, Harpole and Heyford wards
Deanshanger The Cosgrove, Deanshanger and Whittlewood wards and the parish of Yardley Gobion
Greens Norton The Blakesley, Cote, Kingthorn, Silverstone and Washington wards
Hackleton The Chase, Cogenhoe, Salcey and Yardley wards
Middleton Cheney The King’s Sutton, Middleton Cheney and Wardoun wards
Roade The Blisworth, Courteenhall and Tove wards and the parishes of Ashton and Grafton Regis
Towcester The Towcester Brook and Towcester Mill wards
 In the borough of Wellingborough
Croyland
Earls Barton The Earls Barton and South wards and the parishes of Grendon and Great Doddington
Finedon The Finedon, North, and West wards and the parish of Wilby
Hemmingwell
Irchester The Irchester ward and the parishes of Strixton and Wollaston
Queensway
Redwell The Redwell East and Redwell West wards
Swanspool