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1996 Sheffield City Council Election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 3 May 1996. One third of the council was up for election. Election result , - style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " , , Militant Labour , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0.0 , align="right" , 0.6 , align="right" , 648 , align="right" , ±0.0 , - This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: Ward results , - style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " , , Militant Labour , Peter Fryer , align="right" , 172 , align="right" , 8.2 , align="right" , +8.2 , - , - style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " , , Militant Labour , Alistair Tice , align="right" , 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Sheffield City Council Election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1995. One third of the council was up for election. Election result , - style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " , , Militant Labour , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0.0 , align="right" , 0.6 , align="right" , 794 , align="right" , +0.2 , - , - style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " , , International Communist , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0 , align="right" , 0.0 , align="right" , 0.0 , align="right" , 37 , align="right" , ''New'' , - This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: Wards Elsie Smith was a sitting councillor for Darnall ward The Liberal Democrats had gained the Brightside seat in a by-election Stephen J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Sheffield City Council Election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election, and the Labour Party kept overall control of the council. Election result This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: Ward results By-elections between 1998 and 1999 , - style="background-color:#F9F9F9" ! style="background-color: " , , Independent Green , Pete Hartley , align="right" , 20 , align="right" , 1.2 , align="right" , +1.2 , - References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheffield Council Election, 1998 1998 English local elections 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield City Council is the city council for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It consists of 84 councillors, elected to represent 28 wards, each with three councillors. It is currently under No Overall Control, with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party each holding chair positions in a proportionate number of committees, with Labour chairing four Committees, the Liberal Democrats chairing three and the Greens chairing two. History The council was founded as the Corporation of Sheffield in 1843, when Sheffield was incorporated (see History of Sheffield). In 1889, it attained county borough status and in 1893 city status. In 1974, the Local Government Act 1972, reconstituted the City Council as a metropolitan district council of South Yorkshire, governed also by South Yorkshire County Council. It established a system of 90 councillors, three to each of 30 wards. This was reduced in 1980 with the merger of the Attercliffe and Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference, at which party policy is formulated. The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (England And Wales)
The Socialist Party ( cy, Plaid Sosialaidd Cymru in Wales) is a Trotskyism, Trotskyist political party in England and Wales. Founded in 1997, it had formerly been Militant tendency, Militant, an Entryism, entryist group in the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party from 1964 to 1991, which became Militant Labour from 1991 until 1997. History The Socialist Party (SP) was formerly the Militant tendency, Militant group which practised entryism in the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party around the ''Militant'' newspaper. Founded in 1964, the ''Militant'' newspaper described itself as the "Marxist voice of Labour and Youth". In the 1980s, Militant supporters Dave Nellist, Pat Wall and Terry Fields were elected to the House of Commons as Labour MPs. In 1982, Liverpool District Labour Party adopted Militant's policies for Liverpool City Council in its battle against cuts in the rate support grant from government, and came into conflict with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Smith (South Yorkshire Politician)
Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 to 2019 and MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Liberal Democrats, she was previously an MP for the Labour Party and Change UK. She was also an Independent politician before joining the Liberal Democrats. Smith was an early critic of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, backing a no-confidence vote in 2016; in part due to this position, she lost a no-confidence motion in her constituency. She resigned from Labour in February 2019 alongside six other MPs in protest at Corbyn's leadership, and they formed the Independent Group, later Change UK. In June 2019, she left Change UK to sit as an independent MP before joining the Liberal Democrats in September. At the 2019 general election, she stood as a Liberal Democrat in Altrincham and Sale West, where she finished third. Early life and career before Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Harpham
Robert Harry Harpham (21 February 1954 – 4 February 2016) was a British Labour Party politician and coal miner. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from the May 2015 general election until he died nine months later. He was succeeded by his widow, Gill Furniss, as the MP for the seat at the ensuing by-election. Early life and education Harpham was born on 21 February 1954 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Harpham moved to Sheffield in 1985, and studied at Northern College in Barnsley and the University of Sheffield as a mature student. He graduated from Sheffield with a Bachelor's degree in 1991. Career Early career Harpham left school at 16, and became a coal miner at Clipstone Colliery. He took part in the miners' strike of 1984–85 as an NUM member, staying out for the duration. Political career In 2000, Harpham was elected to Sheffield City Council, serving as a councillor for Manor ward. He represented Darnall ward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Wilson
Jan Wilson CBE (1944 – 2 August 2010) was a Labour councillor in Sheffield and formerly the leader of Sheffield City Council. Her career outside politics saw her volunteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau in 1975, and she joined the staff in 1988, remaining until 2002. She was Leader of the Labour Group on Sheffield City Council from 1998 until her death in 2010, and served twice as Leader of the Council, in 1998–99 and again in 2002–08. On both occasions, she lost office to opposition Liberal Democrats. In December 2006, she was appointed a CBE for her public services. In January 2007, Wilson announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ..., but would be continuing in her role as leader of the council. She died of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 English Local Elections
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Sheffield City Council Elections
Sheffield City Council elections usually take place by thirds, three years out of every four. Sheffield City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Each of Sheffield's 28 wards is represented by three positions on the council, meaning there are usually 28 seats contested in each local election. 1967, 1973, 2004 and 2016 saw new ward boundaries and therefore all seats were contested. Political control From 1889 to 1974 Sheffield was a county borough, independent of any county council. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it had its territory enlarged and became a metropolitan borough, with South Yorkshire County Council providing county-level services. The first election to the reconstituted city council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. South Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986 and Sheffield became a unitary authority. Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
