Sentences with phrase «elected councillor in»

Vines last year became Ukip's first directly elected councillor in Rotherham in a byelection.

Mark's previous political experience includes eight years as an elected councillor in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (1994 - 2002) and he stood as the Conservative candidate in Enfield North in 1997.

McCartney was elected a councillor in the London Borough of Enfield in 1998, for Edmonton, then Palmers Green, and stood down at the 2006 local elections.

After University he was elected Councillor in Islington, North London, and in 1997 he won the constituency of Enfield Southgate, for which he served as MP for eight years.

«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.

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.

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...

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Councillor Michael Oshry, elected for the first time in October, founded a currency - exchange company in Edmonton that now operates in five countries.

Minister Bernier is a former mayor (elected in 2008 and 2011) and city councillor (elected in 2005) of Dawson Creek, and has extensive experience in the natural gas industry.

The EFCL also wrote in their report that municipal candidates elected to Edmonton's 12 councillor positions raised more than $ 80,000 on average in 2013, including three who raised more than $ 100,000 and two who raised less than $ 50,000.

Despite his rural pedigree, I would not discount his ability to build relationships with the group of young municipal leaders who have been elected in recent years, including Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton City Councillor Don Iveson.

Former Wood Buffalo municipal councillor Don Scott, who was elected MLA for Fort McMurray - Conklin in 2012, is suspected by some to be eyeing the Conservative nomination, but might be hard pressed to leave his provincial cabinet post.

This is the case in Oldham, where we see elected councillors standing to attention as the Mayor's imam declares «Allahu Akbar» and prays to the Almighty Allah to help those who are suffering in all parts of the world — but particularly Palestine.

While lacking an elected role model in Westminster (the House of Lords has one peer of Chinese descent, the Hong Kong - born Crossbencher, Baroness Dunn) the ranks of Chinese councillors and candidates are slowly growing.

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.

Paula Keaveney is a member of the Liberal Democrats and has been an elected City Councillor and Leader of the Opposition in Liverpool.

The Deputy has in theory been open to councillors as the other elected members and that is being made easier in practice by a 15 % (60 nominations) threshold for councillors.

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.

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

George Osborne hopes the regime of DEEMs will undermine the Labour party by concentrating executive powers in a DEEM, considerably reducing the power of directly - elected councillors, and in that way opening up the prospect of Conservatives winning the DEEM elections within areas where most councillors might be Labour, following the pattern in London where a mainly Labour region has a Conservative DEEM in Boris Johnson.

In three and a half weeks, people up and down the country will elect their local councillors.

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.

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 warIn 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 warin a split result for the ward.

She was elected as one of three councillors in the North Richmond ward in 2006.

[94] The SNP increased their number of councillors elected in 2017 than it did in 2012, with 431 being elected, compared to 425 in the 2012 local elections.

It is deeply disturbing that BNP councillors have been elected in a number of local authorities and equally disturbing that they could potentially end up on governing bodies.

There are pockets across the country where the mood is ugly, as driven leftwing elements within the enlarged local memberships and in Momentum have targeted elected councillors or MPs whom they view as insufficiently Corbynist.

Voters in parts of England and Wales go to the polls next Thursday to elect their local councillors.

The post of deputy leader is open to all Labour elected representatives in Scotland - MSPs, MPs, councillors and MEPs.

Green councillors will be elected for the first time in Essex, Cornwall and Surrey, the party leader has claimed as she predicted a rise in numbers overall in the May 2 local elections across English shire counties.

[2] In 1982 he was elected as a councillor to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which he served until 1986.

It is chaired by the party president, currently Sal Brinton, and includes members of the party - at - large elected every three years in an all - member ballot, as well as representatives from the state parties, MPs, peers, MEPs, and councillors.

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.

Jowell had been elected to the Commons as MP for Dulwich (later Dulwich and West Norwood), in 1992, only two years before Blair's election as leader, but she had previously acquired 15 years of political expertise as a Labour councillor.

Now Cllr Rust, who was Edinburgh's youngest councillor when he was first elected in 2004 at the age of 26, has been confirmed as candidate following a meeting on Friday night.

Reading her biographical details before she was elected as an MP in 1997, one is struck by its normalcy for a politically active Oxford graduate — meetings, service as a councillor, speaking engagements.

In 1919, 151 Co-operative Party councillors were elected at local level.

It doesn't cost anything to stand and anyone motivated to want to leaflet all the houses in their ward and argue against Brexit will have the desire, passion and skills needed to make a success of being a councillor if elected.

Just as in general elections, local councillors in England and Wales are elected via First Past the Post.

«Most councillors associate themselves with a particular party but, as they are individually elected in their own right, there is no power for any party to require resignation as a councillor.

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

In Basing, a councillor who had been elected as a Conservative in 2010 was re-elected as an independenIn Basing, a councillor who had been elected as a Conservative in 2010 was re-elected as an independenin 2010 was re-elected as an independent.

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

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.

Councillors elected in this election will serve an extended five - year term, after local government minister Carl Sargeant announced the next elections would be moved from 2016 to 2017 to avoid clashing with the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016 which in turn had been delayed a year to avoid clashing with the United Kingdom general election, 2015.