Sentences with phrase «councillor since»

Kensington and Chelsea Councillor since 2006.

Harry Harpham - Following in David Blunkett's footsteps, the Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough candidate boasts local government experience, having served as a councillor since 2004 and deputy leader.

Manchester councillor since 1998 and former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Manchester council (more information at They work for you)

Mark Pawsey After fighting Nuneaton in 2005, Mark was selected in January 2007 for Rugby, where he had been a borough councillor since 2002.

A Merton councillor since 2002, he is currently the Cabinet Member responsible for Community Safety and Engagement.

He has continued to be a Councillor since.

Courts has been a West Oxfordshire district councillor since 2014.

However, it wouldn't necessarily net Labour a huge number of extra councillors since in many inner London boroughs like Islington, Lambeth and Lewisham Labour already hold the overwhelming majority of the councillors anyway.

Not exact matches

Mrs Amadi, who describes herself as a legal adviser, pastor and author, has been a councillor for the Edgware ward since 2014.

The former Lancashire county councillor has represented the seat since 1997 when she overturned the sitting Tory MP's majority of 8,000.

Since over 90 per cent of councillors belong to one of the big three parties, their candidate recruitment processes are key.

He was a local councillor for over twenty years, and since becoming an MP, was elected on to the Business, Innovation and Skills committee.

A Labour councillor for New Cross ward since 2014, she came third in the race to be Labour's candidate for Lewisham mayor after running as the only BME and only female candidate.

It is no more news that since the inception of this administration, some of your elected political office holders, especially the Chairmen have been removed by Executive fiat for very flimsy excuse; your chosen councillors were tagged illiterate and area boys and that they do not deserve commensurate remunerations.

First Past the Post (or «FPTP» for short)-- the current system in use in the UK since mediaeval times to elect MPs and since the late nineteenth century to choose local councillors.

He first worked as a medical lab scientific officer in the Sunderland Group of hospitals, but has been involved with politics since 1987 when he became a District Councillor for Easington.

Since the gathering contained a fair sprinkling of councillors, a lot of those present will have knocked on a lot of doors, and thus were well aware of the difference between having a policy that looks good on paper, and having one that will sell on the doorstep.

In material terms, since 2010, the Liberal Democrats have also lost hundreds of council seats, and they now have fewer than 3,000 councillors for the first time in their history.

Indeed, the total number of Lib Dem councillors will very likely plummet below 2,000 for the first time since 1983 — and at least then the SDP / Liberal Alliance was on its way up, not down.

Fairwater has elected three councillors to Cardiff Council since 1995, being represented by the Labour Party until May 2008 when all three seats were taken by Plaid Cymru.

Whitehead said he had been concerned about the behaviour of the controlling group of Tories since 2011, when seven Conservative councillors from Haltemprice and Howden resigned, claiming bullying and intimidation.

Hence the quondam Lambeth councillor's quip, since gone viral, that under Ted Knight there was «No compromise with the electorate».

Since then Andrew has served the local area as a Councillor for some years.

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

I still believe we will be hammered in the forthcoming local elections, which makes me sorry for the hard working diligent councillor being affected not by local issues but by a simmering hatred the press and Labour have been keenly espousing since the coalition deal, and a hatred for the Lib Dems for being the face of the cuts.

Virginia is married with a daughter and has been a Councillor for Richmond upon Thames since 2002, holding the portfolio of Shadow Cabinet Member for Civic Pride and Planning.

The council had been controlled by the Conservatives since the 2000 election in an alliance with 2 of the independent councillors.

A Councillor for her home Laleston ward since 1998, she runs a software company with her husband.

I became a grassroots activist, then, in the way of these things, a councillor, and in 1998, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale - a seat we hadn't won since 1906.

Instead, he's a grassroots campaigner — the first party leader since John Major to have begun his political life as a councillor — who narrowly won the former Tory seat of Westmoreland and Lonsdale, and set about turning it into a bastion of liberalism.

Meanwhile, Healey has also said all Labour MPs and councillors have a responsibility to play their part in renewing the party in a way not been seen since the 1980s.

She joined the Conservative Party after hearing David Cameron promote the importance of marriage and has been a councillor in Fylde since 2007.

He works in training and development for the Lloyds TSB Group but has also been a councillor in Cardiff since 2004, representing the Llanishen ward.

Maria has been a councillor in Brighton and Hove since 2007, when she gained a seat from Labour, overturning a 1,500 majority in the process.

Since 2008 Craig has been a Cardiff City Councillor, representing the Pentyrch Ward, which lies within the Cardiff West constituency.

Since the last boundary changes in 2003, 50 councillors have been elected from 22 wards.

«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.

Since Mr Karim defected to the Conservatives he has been active in supporting North West Tory candidates and was instrumental in securing last week's defection of a LibDem Manchester councillor.

Most of Sandwell's councillors are members of the Labour Party, with the Labour party having run the council since the first election in 1973, apart from one year between 1978 and 1979 when the Conservatives had a majority.

Since the last election in 2002 a Conservative councillor, Carol Shaw of Brondesbury Park ward, had defected to the Liberal Democrats, [2] while in April 2006 Labour councillor, Jonathan Davies of Queen's Park ward, also joined the Liberal Democrats.

[1] Prior to the election Calverley & Farsley councillor, Joseph Marjoram, had defected from the Conservatives to Independent.Labour had overall control of the council since the 2011 election and their majority was unchanged following this election.

The results saw the Labour Party achieve their best result in over 40 years, winning 1,060 councillors, control of 20 out of 32 councils and 43 % of the popular vote (their highest since 1971).

The leader claimed «quite a few» councillors elected for UKIP had since left the party when asked why that party appeared to be gaining protest votes.

Since the 2002 boundary changes the council is composed of 65 councillors.

The Conservatives dropped to their lowest - ever percentage of the vote in a London local election, at just 29.9 %, and fell to their lowest councillor total since 1998.

They also regained two seats from councillors who had defected since 2011, one who went to UKIP and one who became an independent.

The sitting Labour councillor, who had served on Carmarthen District Council since 1979, was de-selected by the party but was re-elected as an Independent Labour candidate.

A notable contest took place in Cwmamman where Alderman John Phillips, a member of the Council since 1922 narrowly defeated the sitting Labour councillor David Davies.

Ian Jobling is believed to be one of the first councillors in the country to switch sides since the May elections.

With 13 % of the vote in 2005 and not a single Liberal Democrat councillor in the constituency since 1975, the Party of Clegg, Campbell and Kennedy has not been seen as a threat in Wallasey for a generation or more.