Sentences with word «councillor»

There has been little consideration of the impact of developing amalgamated city regional governmental frameworks on the role and resonance of local councillors in their communities.

It ignores, for example, the number of councillors elected for each ward.

From 1987 until 1991 Adonis was an Oxford City Councillor for the Social Democratic Party and later the Liberal Democrats, representing the North Ward.

I have seen the same stone - faced expressions from city councillors who've got a backroom deal going... In my case it was closing a local library.

Already there are 14 Conservative councillors in Ealing Southall against Labour's 18.

Cable, a former Labour councillor who worked for the late John Smith, must now work in tandem with chancellor George Osborne.

Oladitan said as published in the newspapers and as announced by the commission during a press conference, all the names of all the APC candidates (as published) are hereby declared as winners and returned as councillors of the state.

The Conservatives retained control of the council in the 2007 elections with a majority of four over the Liberal Democrats; these being the only two groups with elected councillors in 2007.

Bhatti is the first Conservative Councillor on Manchester City Council since 1996.

Instead we have a shortlist of county councillors from Surrey, a journalist and Col Bob Stewart.

In a surprise decision, local county councillors in Lancashire, England just voted to reject plans for the UK's first full - scale fracking operation on a site at Preston New Road.

The proposals will be discussed by councillors at a meeting of the education committee on 20 February.

That view may not be shared by Tory councillors who lost their seat in places like South Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Wandsworth, but by and large it was hard graft on local issues by moderate, competent Conservatives that saw off Labour and in places even won us seats.

[citation needed] The two sitting English Democrat councillors on Calderdale and Blackburn with Darwen councils retired, and the party did not nominate any candidates to contest the seats.

There were two seats up for election in the Hagley ward due to the resignation of the sitting Labour councillor with the second placed candidate filling the remainder of his term.

However, the decision to stagger the changes reflects a growing realisation by ministers that Labour could exploit the changes to attack Tory and Lib Dem councillors in local elections next year.

A by - election was held in Witney North on 20 August 2015 after independent councillor David Snow resigned from the council in June 2015.

One Toronto city councillor says the city should consider letting residents make payments for things like property taxes using cryptocurrencies.

«He might be seen by Labour Party councillors as best placed to connect with the wider electorate and challenge Theresa May, but he'll need a strong change in the winds to get past Jeremy Corbyn right now.»

Cuts to local government have been frontloaded but there hasn't been a meltdown for Tory councillors at the ballot box.

Suzanne Evans, a former UKIP councillor who lost her London seat, explained that the «educated, cultured and young» of the capital was less likely to support UKIP.

A seat was vacant before the 2010 election in Dudden Hill, after Liberal Democrat councillor David Clues resigned from the council less than 6 months before the election, after having moved to Brighton.

[3] As well as the by - elections, 2 sitting councillors did not stand in the election, Liberal Democrat John Williams from Coxheath and Hunton ward and independent Janetta Sams from Harrietsham and Lenham ward.

However, his bid was unsuccessful as councillors voted overwhelmingly to approve more than $ 67,000 in funding for 13 LGBTI programs for the upcoming year.

Continue reading «Mark Wallace: Defections by local councillors do not deserve national media coverage»»

Your new councillors on Northamptonshire County Council The changes are compared to the last election in 2013

While correctly reciting the law concerning pre-disposition and pre-determination Collins J also underlined the importance of councillors not being inhibited from carrying out the «duties imposed upon them by the democratic system, by over cautious advice from monitoring officers».

He was consequently appointed a Privy Councillor on 13 May 2010.

The last Tory district councillor elected in Ashfield constituency boundaries lost their seat (I think) in 2003.

He was a town councillor from 1988 and the Chairman of West Clwyd NUT region.

Ukip gained their second seat on the Humberston and New Waltham council when candidate William Harness triumphed in the by - election held to replace Conservative councillor John Colebrook following his death in December.

Before the election both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties had 21 seats, with 10 Labour and 3 independent councillors making up the council.

Many councillors don't get round to claiming travel expenses because they simply don't have the time, and travel is usually the extent of the expense claim made because we are limited to claiming much else.

Mr Miliband was canvassing with Doncaster Council Labour councillors standing for re-election in local elections this coming Thursday.

Overall, the Conservatives had 16 more councillors elected, although that was only due to changes in the electoral system.

At a national level this is the week of the by - election in Norwich North, at the local level it is the first full Council meeting in Haringey with a Conservative councillor after an absence of seven years.

«Grenoble becomes the first French city to roll back [water] privatisation,» remembers Olivier Bertrand, who has since been elected municipal councillor with the majority party, the Greens.

It lost councillors in England but fewer than had been projected by some.

One Green councillor who organised a public meeting about the transportation of animals from Calais to Dover is understood to be on it.

Last year he won a spectacular victory for the Liberal Democrats in a by - election to become councillor for the ward of Llay.

Ukip councillor Peter Reeve claimed: «Even if we don't win a single seat, we are still a very relevant and real voice in local politics.»

Courts has been a West Oxfordshire district councillor since 2014.

The Lib Dem councillor Chris White took the opportunity to swipe at Mr Pickles, as the BBC reports:

At 32 years old, I'm one of the youngest councillors at Sheffield city council.

Councillors also backed an amendment for a report outlining the «criteria and processes» involved in the approval of projects in the annual grant program.

The former Tory councillor then advises David Cameron: «Sack the hapless Grant Shapps and replace him with a serious politician.»

The mayoral elections take place at the same time as councillor elections in those boroughs.