Sentences with phrase «elected as a councillor»

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

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.

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

Mr McCann was grew up in East Kilbride and became a civil servant with the Overseas Development Administration before being elected as a councillor in South Lanarkshire in 1999.

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

Dennis is honoured to have been elected as a councillor and looks forward to serving the residents of Port Hardy for the next four years.

Not exact matches

Elected three times as an Edmonton City Councillor, Amarjeet Sohi became the Member of Parliament for Edmonton Mill Woods on October 19th 2015 and was named Canada's Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.

Before being elected to the Alberta Legislature, Mason served as the City of Edmonton's Councillor for Ward 3.

She joined the Labour party, became a press officer at its Transport House HQ, was elected as a local councillor and set her sights on being an MP.

First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

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.

Wragg, a chum of Pursglove's, did not have a similar enlightenment, though his time as a councillor gave him a taste for elected office.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

As councillors and elected mayors we will work to continue to drive down the costs of delivering quality public services.

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.

In Basing, a councillor who had been elected as a Conservative in 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.

Independent councillors retained their status as the majority group, with councillors also being elected representing the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, and Scottish National Party.

In 2008 she was elected as the County Councillor for Aberaeron and was re-elected with a large majority in 2012.

That has to start with local elections electing the best possible councillors as representatives of their communities.

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.

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.

Evans was elected as a Conservative Councillor in 2010, but defected to UKIP in March 2013.

[1][2] Both Dobson and Field had been elected as Labour Councillors but resigned from the Labour Group and whip in February 2017 to stand as independents.

Rahman was elected as a Labour Councillor for the Spitalfields and Banglatown ward in 2002 and re-elected in 2006 and 2010.

Adonis has never even stood as a candidate for MP, let alone been elected - although he was a Liberal Democrat councillor in Oxford and was at one time a LD prospective parliamentary candidate.

Elected originally as a Labour Councillor, Dobson resigned from the Labour Group in October 2017.

[5] Darch had been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2003, but together with her fellow councillor for Portfied Lillian Jefferis, she subsequently defected to the Conservatives.

There were no elections held in the Hednesford Green Heath or Rawnsley wards as those wards elect only two councillors in the other two years of the election cycle.

Follow the 2014 local elections results live as more than 4,000 councillors are elected in England across metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities, non-metropolitan districts and in every seat in every London borough.

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.

8 years as an elected local councillor in both opposition and control (I was also Mayor with the casting vote when Labour was evenly balanced with the LibDems)

The election used the 23 wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 78 Councillors elected.