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...
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.
«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.
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.
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.
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.
Vines last year became Ukip's first directly
elected councillor in Rotherham in a byelection.
Not exact matches
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 war
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 war
in 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.
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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 independen
In Basing, a
councillor who had been
elected as a Conservative
in 2010 was re-elected as an independen
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.
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.