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2015 Vale Of White Horse District Council Election
The 2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Vale of White Horse District Council in England. This was held on the same day as other local elections. In 2015, the council seats were contested against redrawn ward boundaries. The whole council was up for election and the Conservatives retained control, with an increased majority of seats. Election results Composition of the council following the 2015 election: * Conservative 29 * Liberal Democrat 9 Ward Results References {{Oxfordshire elections Vale of White Horse 2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vale Of White Horse District Council
Vale of White Horse District Council is the local authority for the Vale of White Horse, a non-metropolitan district in the south-west of Oxfordshire, England, that was created on 1 April 1974. Political control At the first elections in 1973 forty-nine district councillors were elected from thirty-one electoral wards. Currently thirty-eight councillors are elected from twenty four electoral wards, which cover the principal towns of Abingdon-on-Thames, Abingdon, Faringdon and Wantage and surrounding villages. This was effective from the 2015 elections. Between 2011 and 2019 the council had a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative majority. The Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats took control from May 2019. Elections of the full council take place every four years. At the 2019 UK local elections, May 2019 local elections, the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats overcame the Tories' 20-seat majority to become the major party with a 24-seat majority. Premises The co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 United Kingdom Local Elections
The 2015 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 7 May 2015, the same day as the general election for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. With the exception of those areas that have had boundary changes, the council seats up for election in England were last contested in the 2011 local elections. Background Elections would have been due in Northern Ireland given the previous elections to all 26 local councils in 2011, but these councils have since been scrapped and replaced by 11 super-councils, which had their inaugural elections in 2014. All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who will be aged 18 or over on the day of the election were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who will be temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) are also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who have moved abroad and reg ... [...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] |
Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats (commonly referred to as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom. Since the 1992 general election, with the exception of the 2015 general election, they have been the third-largest UK political party by the number of votes cast. They have 14 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 83 members of the House of Lords, four Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in the Welsh Senedd. The party has over 2,500 local council seats. The party holds a twice-per-year Liberal Democrat Conference, at which party policy is formulated, with all party members eligible to vote, under a one member, one vote system. The party served as the junior party in a coalition government with the Conservative Party between 2010 and 2015; with Scottish Labour in the Scottish Executive from 1999 to 2007, and with Welsh Labour in the Welsh Government from 2000 to 2003 and from 2016 to 2021. In 1981, an electoral alliance was established b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonny Leong
Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, (born September 1953), is a British Labour Party politician. Career Leong co-founded Cavendish Publishing in 1990. The company made £250,000 in its first year. In 2001, he was appointed managing director of Cavendish Publishing, with a 30-percent stake in the company. By 2003, it was the largest independent law publisher in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Leong sold Cavendish Publishing to Taylor & Francis. He left Taylor & Francis in 2007 to join One Charter, a private jet business, as a non-executive director. Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour, in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours. On 31 October 2022, he was created Baron Leong, ''of Chilton in the County of Oxfordshire and of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden''. Personal life Leong and his wife, Gita, have a daughter, Sonya. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 English Local Elections
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Vale Of White Horse District Council Elections
Elections to the Vale of White Horse District Council, the local authority for the Vale of White Horse in Oxfordshire, England take place every four years. Council elections * 1973 Vale of White Horse District Council election * 1976 Vale of White Horse District Council election * 1979 Vale of White Horse District Council election (New ward boundaries) * 1983 Vale of White Horse District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) * 1987 Vale of White Horse District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) * 1991 Vale of White Horse District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) * 1995 Vale of White Horse District Council election * 1999 Vale of White Horse District Council election * 2003 Vale of White Horse District Council election (New ward boundaries) * 2007 Vale of White Horse District Council election *2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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