Sentences with phrase «elected local councillor»

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)

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

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.

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.

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.

England's local councillors are elected under a First Past the Post electoral system with multi-member wards.

[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.

OSIEC also stated that elected councillors would be running a parliamentary administrative system at the local government, where the councillors would elect a chairman from amongst them.

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.

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.

But the mayor said it would «stimulate local democracy» and giving more powers over spending to elected councillors «would electrify politics and it was high time we did it».

I want to see the door left open for those councillors who have resigned the party whip to return so that whoever is elected can be sure that there is a strong Labour group that will work with the Mayor to ensure the needs of Tower Hamlets comes first and we reunite the local party once the dust has settled.»

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

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

A few months earlier, long - serving Labour member and local councillor Philip Glanville was elected mayor of Hackney after getting the backing of the local Momentum group.

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.

The election used the seven wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 23 councillors being elected, an increase of 1 from 2012.

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

Local elections in Wales also use FPTP, but councillors are often elected from multi-member wards (for example, the three candidates with the most votes are all elected).

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.

They have their first elected MP at Westminster, two Members of the European Parliament, two Members of the London Assembly, and 141 local councillors following the 2013 local elections.

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.

The Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner is scrutinised by the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from the local authorities in the police area.

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.

The election used the eleven 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 40 Councillors being 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...

The other two are Manchester local councillors: Mike Amesbury is Cabinet member for Culture and, like Lucy, a constituency party representative on the national policy forum elected on the Progress slate.

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

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