Haddon earned the most votes in the ward with 656, and the 76-year-old told the Local Democracy Reporting Service he was “apprehensive, excited and a little bit shell-shocked” after his win.
Haddon, who went to school and was married in Higham Ferrers, said it would be his first venture into politics.
“I considered initially that I’m too old to start a new career, shall we say,” he said
“It was something I didn’t really think I was going to do, but I’d like to think that we can get council finances under control.
“A lot of what I got on the doorstep was ‘We will vote for you so long as you’re not Labour or Conservative.'”
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