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2004 Epping Forest District Council Election
Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 37.6%. This election saw the British National Party first enter the council chamber. They would go on to double their representation. This also saw the largest loss of Labour seats since they were the council's largest party in 1998. Results Buckhurst Hill East Buckhurst Hill West Chigwell Row Chigwell Village Epping Hemnall Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common Grange Hill High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings Loughton Alderton Loughton Broadway Loughton Fairmead Loughton Forest Loughton Roding Loughton St. John's Loughton St. Mary's Moreton and Fyfield Passingford Theydon Bois Waltham Abbey Honey Lane Waltham Abbey North Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Epping Forest District Council Election
Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. This election saw the best performance in terms of seats and vote share for the Liberal Democrats. By-elections Waltham Abbey North East by-election Waltham Abbey South West by-election Results Broadley Common, Epping Upland & Nazeing Buckhurst Hill West Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash Epping Hemnall Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common Grange Hill Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village Lambourne Lower Nazeing Lower Sheering North Weald Bassett Roydon Shelley Waltham Abbey High Beach Waltham Abbey Honey Lane Waltham Abbey North East Waltham Abbey Paternoster Waltham Abbey South West References 2003 Epping Forest election result [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Epping Forest District Council Election
Elections to Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party was reduced to one seat following wipeout of their representation in Loughton - remaining Labour councillor, Peter Gode of Shelley would resign in 2015. Stephen Murray, Labour councillor for Loughton Roding, defected and became an Independent (politician), Independent. This election also marks the most recent time a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative has won a seat in Loughton. The Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats lost another seat, whilst the Loughton Residents Association also lost a seat to the British National Party, who doubled their representation and increased their vote share. Three Independent (politician), Independents remained on the council, and Chigwell Residents Association councillor, John Knapman (who groups with the Loughton Residents A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epping Forest District
Epping Forest is a local government district in Essex, England. Situated in the west of the county, bordering northeastern Greater London, it is named after, and contains a large part of, Epping Forest. The district, though wholly within the county of Essex, is partly contiguous with Greater London to the south and southwest, and the area around Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, Waltham Abbey and Loughton is statistically part of the Greater London Built-up Area and forms part of the Ilford (IG) postcode area (except for Waltham Abbey, which forms part of the Enfield (EN) postcode area and Sewardstone, which forms part of the Eastern (E) postcode area). Epping Forest District also borders Hertfordshire both to the northeast and southwest of the neighbouring district of Harlow. Settlement The whole district is divided into civil parishes a majority of which, particularly in the north and east of the district are rural and sparsely populated for an area so close to London; it includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epping Forest (district)
Epping Forest is a local government district in Essex, England. Situated in the west of the county, bordering northeastern Greater London, it is named after, and contains a large part of, Epping Forest. The district, though wholly within the county of Essex, is partly contiguous with Greater London to the south and southwest, and the area around Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, Waltham Abbey and Loughton is statistically part of the Greater London Built-up Area and forms part of the Ilford (IG) postcode area (except for Waltham Abbey, which forms part of the Enfield (EN) postcode area and Sewardstone, which forms part of the Eastern (E) postcode area). Epping Forest District also borders Hertfordshire both to the northeast and southwest of the neighbouring district of Harlow. Settlement The whole district is divided into civil parishes a majority of which, particularly in the north and east of the district are rural and sparsely populated for an area so close to London; it includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British National Party
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and its leader is Adam Walker. A minor party, it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government. Founded in 1982, the party reached its greatest level of success in the 2000s, when it had over fifty seats in local government, one seat on the London Assembly, and two Members of the European Parliament. Taking its name from that of a defunct 1960s far-right party, the BNP was created by John Tyndall and other former members of the fascist National Front (NF). During the 1980s and 1990s, the BNP placed little emphasis on contesting elections, in which it did poorly. Instead, it focused on street marches and rallies, creating the Combat 18 paramilitary—its name a coded reference to Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler—to protect its events from anti-fascist protesters. A growing 'moderniser' faction was frustrated by Tyndall's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Richardson (politician)
Patricia Feldman Richardson (born 1944 or 1945, died 2022 or 2023) was a British politician, most notable as the British National Party's first Jewish candidate, though she does not practise Judaism. In 2004, Richardson said the party was not anti-Semitic. Early life She grew up in Stoke Newington, the youngest of three sisters; her father came from Romania, while her mother was born in London's East End, of Lithuanian descent. Political career BNP In the 2004 local elections, she won a seat on Epping Forest District Council, representing the Loughton Fairmead ward with a narrow majority of 13. Her husband, Thomas Richardson, also a BNP candidate, won the nearby ward of Loughton Broadway. In the 2008 local elections, she was elected in the Loughton Broadway ward, covering part of the Debden council estate, with a majority of 123 over Labour. Her old Fairmead seat was lost heavily to the Loughton Residents Association. From 2009, she was the leader of the BNP group on the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Pond (politician)
Christopher Charles "Chris" Pond is a historian, librarian, and politician, was born in 1949 in Walthamstow, Essex (now part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest), and grew up in Chingford, moving to Loughton, Essex in 1981. Early life He attended Sir George Monoux Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. His PhD (faculty of geography and geology) was obtained in 1981 under Sir Clifford Darby. Latterly an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, he was Head of Reference Services at the House of Commons Library, secretary and then chairman of the FDA House of Commons branch, and then for 15 years President of the Trade Union Side, House of Commons. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2002. Officers of the House of Commons serve with complete political impartiality, and are generally debarred from seeking elected office, but Pond, as an independent, was permitted to stand whilst an officer of the House. Pond is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Mohindra
Gagan Mohindra (born 7 April 1978) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire since the 2019 general election. Early life Mohindra was born into a Punjabi Hindu family in 1978. Mohindra's parents were both from Punjab, India, and immigrated to the United Kingdom before Mohindra was born. His paternal grandfather served in the British Indian Army. Mohindra was raised as a Hindu. Mohindra read Mathematics at King's College London and worked in financial services, before founding the Chromex Group four years after graduating, where he worked until 2015. The last filed accounts of the company show liabilities of £1.4 million. Political career Mohindra was elected as councillor for the Grange Hill Ward of the Epping Forest District Council in May 2006, and has served as a councillor for the Chigwell and Loughton Broadway division on Essex County Council since 2017. He continued in these roles, unpaid, after b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Tilbrook
Robin C. W. Tilbrook (born 1958) is an English solicitor and political leader who chairs the English Democrats, a political party he founded. It advocates a devolved English Parliament, having previously advocated English independence from the United Kingdom. Early life Tilbrook was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya, in 1958. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, gained a BA (Hons) in politics and economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and then studied at The College of Law, Chester. He was a Coldstream Guardsman and has worked in a factory, in junior management, and as a teacher at primary and secondary level. By 2003, he was a solicitor and a partner in the firm of Tilbrooks in Ongar, Essex. In 2005, he commented after a case, "It is a black day in the courts when they refuse to make a declaration that St George's Day is a special occasion." On 27 September 2011, he became a Freeman of the City of London. Politics He was a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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