Sentences with phrase «councils elect councillors»

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She was elected as a local councillor to South Glamorgan County Council between 1985 and 1997, and was a Cardiff City Councillor councillor to South Glamorgan County Council between 1985 and 1997, and was a Cardiff City Councillor Councillor from 1995.

I was first elected as a Borough Councillor in 1982 and am now Leader of Hertfordshire County Council, Chairman of the County Councils Network and Chairman of the East of England Local Government Association.

In England and Wales the system is also still used to elect local councillors and here «no overall control» situations frequently occur, where either a coalition of parties runs the council, or the largest party assumes control without a majority.

She was elected as a Labour councillor on Trafford Council in 1995 on which Keeley served as a member for Priory ward until 2004.

DEEMs diminish the role of elected councils and relegate councillors to asking questions and scrutiny that have little impact on a DEEM and scant public impact.

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State is boycotting the election because of a case it instituted against the government over the sacking of council chairmen and councillors elected under the APC government.

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.

According to the BBC, across all the council seats elected on 3 May, last fought in 2014, Labour increased its number of councillors by 77 (to 2,350), the Tories were reduced by 33 (to 1,332) and the Lib Dems increased by 75 (to 536).

Sturgeon and the SNP went into the Scottish council elections that were held on 4 May 2017, as the largest political party in the 32 local council areas in Scotland, having 424 councillors elected to serve on the councils across Scotland.

In the 2014 local elections, Berry was elected to the Highgate ward of Camden London Borough Council, holding the seat of outgoing Green councillor Maya De Souza in a split result for the ward.

The London Borough of Croydon has a Labour controlled council with 40 Labour councillors and 30 Conservative councillors elected on 22 May 2014.

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«The new government is opening up the pay of middle and senior management to greater scrutiny, and will require any six - figure salaries to be approved - or vetoed - by elected councillors in the full public glare of the council chamber,» he added.

On 6 May 2010, she was elected as a Conservative councillor in the London Borough of Merton Council.

McGovern was first elected as a councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the borough council's 29 - member group of Labour councillors.

In 2002 he was elected as Councillor for Westbury - on - Trym on Bristol City Council, a position he held for 8 years.

Each ward elects an Alderman to the Court of Aldermen, and Commoners (the City equivalent of a Councillor) to the Court of Common Council of the Corporation.

Conservative councillor Damien Moore (Greyfriars) resigned from the council in March 2018 (he was elected Member of Parliament for Southport in 2017).

Jones was elected as a Labour Councillor to Caerphilly County Borough Council in 1995, representing his home community of New Tredegar.

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.

David Blunkett, who became leader of the city council in 1980, had been the youngest councillor in the country 10 years earlier when he and Michie were first elected.

He was elected to Grampian Regional Council in 1982 (as Scotland's youngest councillor) and was Chair of Grampian's Economic Development and Planning Committee from 1986 to 1991.

In London council elections the entire council is elected every four years, as opposed to some local elections where one councillor is elected every year in three out of the four years.

One - third of the council was up for election plus a by - election in the Queensgate ward following the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Bill Bennett (last elected in 2008).

Whilst it may not be top of the Tory target list (it is in fact 338th on the list), there are seven Conservative councillors within the boundaries of the constituency - and the wider North Tyneside Council has a directly - elected Conservative Mayor, Linda Arkley.

The Conservative majority on the council increased to 15, after 32 Conservative councillors were elected.

She was elected as a Councillor on Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council in 1994, where she served as Mayor from 1996 — 97.

One third of the council was up for election to replace the councillors elected in 2010.

Both independent incumbents, Mark Dobson and Sarah Field, were elected to the Council alongside fellow independent, Suzanne McCormack, who replaced retiring Labour Councillor Stuart McKenna.

After a series of elections where Labour strengthened their majority on the Council the party suffered a number of losses and a majority of the elected councillors were Independents.

A total of 13 councillors were elected from all but two of the council's wards as a third of the council was up for election.

A total of 13 councillors were elected from 13 wards as a third of the council was up for election.

2 new #UKIP councillors elected in both Oldham and Hyndburn councils today.

He was elected as a councillor to Cleveland County Council in 1984, becoming the vice-chairman of the committee, he served on the council untiCouncil in 1984, becoming the vice-chairman of the committee, he served on the council unticouncil until 1997.

As Liverpool Council is elected in thirds, councillors elected in the 2006 elections defend their seats this year, and the vote share changes are compared on that basis.

During that time, an election of unprecedented scale outside of a General election year saw 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 60 Welsh Assembly Members, 108 Northern Ireland Assembly Members, 25 London Assembly Members, 4 Mayors, 40 Police and Crime Commissioners, 2 MPs in by - elections and 2,769 councillors, across 124 councils, elected.

Twelve out of the nineteen elected councillors in Ohafia Local Government have appended their signatures in support of a motion for the suspension of the council...

Chris Terry warns that councillors need to step up to the role — and the method of electing councils themselves makes this deeply problematic.

More than four hundred councillors have been elected in the local elections in the Anglia region on 22 councils.

Some of the councils that elect in this way can not possibly change overall control, because the existing majority for the controlling party is larger than the number of councillors they could lose.

Local councils too have exciting potential, particularly since it is easier to get supportive Councillors elected to council.

TV Edwards Solicitors are incredibly proud of Amy Beales, paralegal in our private client team, who was recently elected as Loughton Residents» Association councillor, the youngest ever member of Epping Forest District Council.

One is former Chateauguay city councillor and local businessman Michel Gendron, who is fighting the legality of a motion presented by council to dismiss him from office over his refusal to complete an obligatory declaration of property, which all elected officials are required to do under Quebec's Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities.

And that... «could lead to any Councillor, elected on a pro-scheme manifesto, creating a serious risk of a Council's grant of permission being quashed if he participated in the decision to grant».

Regional Councillors then elected the Chairs of the Regional Councils, as well as Commissioners on the national board (with Regional Councils grouped together into zones for the purpose of electing a Commissioner).

Mr Jeffries has an extensive history of holding publicly elected positions and these include - Councillor on the Walgett Shire Council and five consecutive terms as an ATSIC Regional Councillor and three as Chairperson.