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2022 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Election
The 2022 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election is currently taking place as of 5 May 2022 to elect members of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. This is on the same day as other local elections. 24 of the 72 seats will be up for election. Background Sandwell is a consistently Labour council. Labour have held majorities every election since its creation in 1973, apart from 1978 when the Conservatives gained the council. From 2018 to 2021, Sandwell was one of the few councils to be comprised fully of 1 party, with Labour in control of all 72 wards. In the 2021 election, Labour lost 9 seats with 53.1% of the vote, the Conservatives gained 9 with 36.6%, and independents did not make any gains or losses with 4.6% of the vote. The seats up for election this year were last elected in 2018. In that election, Labour won all seats with 68.5% of the vote, giving them full control of the council. The Conservatives won 24.4%. Previous council composition Changes: * Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council was created in 1974 to administer the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands county of England. The council offices are located at the Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury town centre, which opened in 1989. Sandwell is divided into 24 Wards and is represented by 72 ward councillors. Elections to the council take place in three out of every four years, with one-third of the seats being contested at each election. Since the Local Government Act 1985, Sandwell Council has effectively been a unitary authority, serving as the sole executive, deliberative, and legislative body responsible for local policy, setting council tax, and allocating budget in the district; although public transport, fire and police services, and the local government pension fund (West Midlands Pension Fund) are jointly run by the seven metropolitan boroughs of the West Midlands county. Politics Most of Sandwell's councillors are membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 United Kingdom Local Elections
Local elections in the United Kingdom took place on 5 May 2022. These included elections for all London borough councils, for all local authorities in Wales and Scotland. Most seats in England were last up for election in 2018 and in Scotland and Wales in 2017. The elections coincided with the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election. In 91 cases, most of them in Wales, council seats were uncontested, each having only one candidate. Three seats in Scotland remained unfilled as no one nominated to fill them. Overall Across Great Britain, the Conservatives had a net loss of 487 seats in comparison to 2017 in Scotland and Wales and 2018 in England, whilst Labour gained 108 seats (22 in England, 20 in Scotland, and 66 in Wales). The Liberal Democrats and Greens made gains of 224 seats and 87 seats, respectively, which exceeded those of the Labour Party in England but were also seen to a more modest extent in Scotland and Wales. The Scottish National Party (SNP) gained 22 seats i ... [...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] |
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] |
2018 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Election
The 2018 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other 2018 United Kingdom local elections, local elections. Results summary Ward results Abbey Blackheath Bristnall Charlemont with Grove Vale Cradley Heath and Old Hill Friar Park Great Barr with Yew Tree Great Bridge Greets Green and Lyng Hateley Heath Langley Newton Old Warley Oldbury Princes End Rowley Smethwick Soho and Victoria St Paul's Tipton Green Tividale Wednesbury North Wednesbury South West Bromwich Central References {{United Kingdom local elections, 2018 2018 English local elections, Sandwell Sandwell Council elections, 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Election
The 2021 Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in England. It coincided with other local elections across the United Kingdom. One-third of the seats were up for election, with three wards (Old Warley, Rowley, and Wednesbury South) electing two councillors. Results Ward results Abbey Blackheath Bristnall Charlemont with Grove Vale Cradley Heath and Old Hill Friar Park Great Barr with Yew Tree Great Bridge Greets Green and Lyng Hateley Heath Langley Newton Old Warley Oldbury Princes End Rowley Smethwick Soho and Victoria St. Paul's Tipton Green Tividale Wednesbury North Wednesbury South West Bromwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
