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2002 Runnymede Council Election
Elections to Runnymede Council were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. After the election, the composition of the council was: * Conservative: 32 * Runnymede Independent Residents Group: 6 *Labour: 4 Election result Ward results References2002 Runnymede election resultWard results
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Runnymede (borough)
The Borough of Runnymede is a local government district with borough status in the English county of Surrey. It is a very prosperous part of the London commuter belt, with some of the most expensive housing in the United Kingdom outside central London, such as the Wentworth Estate. Runnymede is entirely unparished and is largely built-up. The borough's council is based in Addlestone; other settlements include Chertsey, Egham, Egham Hythe, Virginia Water, Englefield Green and Thorpe. At the 2011 Census, the population of the borough was 80,510. The borough was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the Chertsey and Egham Urban Districts, both of which had been created in 1894. It is named after Runnymede, a water meadow on the banks of the River Thames, near Egham. Runnymede is connected with the sealing of Magna Carta by King John in 1215 and is the site of several significant monuments. Runnymede borders the boroughs of Spelthorne, Elmbridg ...
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ...
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Runnymede Residents Association
Runnymede Independent Residents' Group was founded in 2001; it has held exactly one seventh of councillors' seats and formed the largest opposition party since the election it first contested in 2002. Electoral performance The Group was founded in 2001. Its maximal representation has been six of about forty-two seats (Runnymede Borough Council elections, the local elections occur in the bulk of years and the present number of councillors is 42) from 2002 to the time of writing, 2018. The group distribute campaign literature widely and have stood in a large minority of wards to Runnymede (borough), Runnymede Borough Council. No election was held in the year when the party was set up (elections occur in three out of four years). In 2015 and 2016 the sole opposition – body of councillors opposing the politically governing group – were the six candidates the Group who had won various prior elections; one opposition councillor of a different denomination, UKIP, having be ...
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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 ...
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Runnymede Borough Council Elections
One-third of Runnymede Borough Council in Surrey, England, is elected each year, followed by one year where there is an election to Surrey County Council instead. The council is divided up into 14 wards, electing 41 councillors, since the last boundary changes in 2019. Council elections * 1973 Runnymede District Council election * 1976 Runnymede District Council election (New ward boundaries) * 1978 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1979 Runnymede Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) * 1980 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1982 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1983 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1984 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1986 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1987 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1988 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1990 Runnymede Borough Council election * 1991 Runnymede Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number o ...
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