and Welton. Welton ward population was recorded as 5,016 in 2001. The ward was in use from 1 April 1974, first election 7 June 1973, to 7 May 2015, originally having just one councillor, but upping to two on 6 May 1999. On 7 May 2015, Welton ward merged with Dunholme ward to form the Welton and Dunholme ward, with the last population estimates being at 8,222 in 2011, based on data from the two former wards. UK Parliament constituency Welton has voted as part of the Gainsborough constituency since the 1885 general election. It became part of Gainsborough and Horncastle when it existed from the 1983 election until 1997, after which it returned to the Gainsborough constituency. Climate As with the rest of the British Isles, Welton has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) with cool summers and mild winters. The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is at RAF Scampton, less than to the south of the town centre. In a typical year, the warmest day should reach a high temperature of at least , whereas the coldest day should always reach a low temperature of . The record high at RAF Scampton peaked at in the afternoon of 19 July 2022 during the 2022 United Kingdom heat wave, beating not only the previous local record of from a three-day heatwave on 26 July 2019, but also the former national record of also from July 2019. The absolute minimum temperature of was recorded on 7 December 2010 at RAF Scampton, during the record-breaking winter of 2010–11 in Great Britain and Ireland. A former nearby weather station holds the record for the lowest daytime maximum temperature recorded in England in the month of December at on 17 December 1981. In a year, 48.98 nights should register an air frost. The length of the day varies extremely over the course of the year in Welton. The shortest day may have 7 hours and 30 minutes of daylight, and the longest as much as 10 hours more, with 17 hours of daylight. The earliest sunrise is at around 4:30 am in June, and the latest sunrise is 4 hours later at 8:30 am in December. The earliest sunset is at 3:30 pm in December, and the latest is 6 hours later at 9:30 pm in June. Daylight saving time (DST) is observed in Welton, starting