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Greenwich (electoral Division)
Greenwich was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the Greater London Council. The constituency elected three councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967 and 1970. The constituency was revised in 1973 and then elected one councillor for a four-year term in 1973, 1977 and 1981, with the final term extended for an extra year ahead of the abolition of the Greater London Council. History It was planned to use the same boundaries as the Westminster Parliament constituencies for election of councillors to the Greater London Council (GLC), as had been the practice for elections to the predecessor London County Council, but those that existed in 1965 crossed the Greater London boundary. Until new constituencies could be settled, the 32 London boroughs were used as electoral areas which therefore created a constituency called Greenwich. The new constituencies were settled following the Second Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and the electoral division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater London Council
The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985 and its powers were devolved to the London boroughs and other entities. A new administrative body, known as the Greater London Authority (GLA), was established in 2000. Creation The GLC was established by the London Government Act 1963, which sought to create a new body covering more of London rather than just the inner part of the conurbation, additionally including and empowering newly created London boroughs within the overall administrative structure. In 1957 a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London had been set up under Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley, Sir Edwin Herbert, and this reported in 1960, recommending the creation of 52 new London boroughs as the basis for local government. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Young (trade Unionist)
James Young (1 October 1887 – 16 July 1975) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. Young grew up in Edinburgh and attended George Heriot's School. He completed an apprenticeship as an engineer and draughtsman with Brown Brothers, working there until 1918, when he relocated to Glasgow. He joined the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (AESD), and served as its full-time assistant general secretary from 1920, also serving on the executive of the Labour Research Department. In 1929, he moved roles, becoming a divisional organiser.Young, James , ''Who Was Who'' From 1932 until 1945, Young represented the AESD on the executive of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and he served as its president in 1935/6 and 1944/5. During World War II, he served on the Regional Productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater London Council Electoral Divisions
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Politics Of The Royal Borough Of Greenwich
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Greater London Council Election
There was an election to the Greater London Council held on 7 May 1981. Councillors were elected to serve until elections in May 1985. Those elections were cancelled and the term was extended until 1 April 1986. The leader of the Labour GLC group Andrew McIntosh led the party into the election. Within 24 hours of the result, however, McIntosh's leadership was toppled by Ken Livingstone; a member of the party's left-wing. Livingstone was then elected GLC leader. This was the last election to the GLC. The Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher soon took the decision to abolish the council in the mid-1980s, out of partisan concern that it would choose to defy right-wing policies. For more information on this see the article, Greater London Council. Following the abolition of the GLC, there was a direct election to the Inner London Education Authority in 1986. Results ''Turnout: 2,250,118 people voted. All parties shown.'' References Footnotes {{reflist, group=n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Greater London Council Election
Elections to the Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area. The GLC was dissolved in 198 ... were held on 5 May 1977. Results Turnout: 2,242,064 people voted. ReferencesGLC Election Results {{London elections Greater London Council election 1977 Greater London Council election Greater London Council election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Greater London Council Election
The fourth election to the Greater London Council was held on 12 April 1973. Labour won a large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council. Electoral arrangements As there had been a boundary commission report with new Parliamentary constituencies which coincided with the border of Greater London, the electoral system was changed (as had always been intended) so that the GLC was elected from single member electoral divisions which were identical with the Parliamentary constituencies. Results With an electorate of 5,313,470, there was a turnout of 36.8%. In addition to the 92 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 9 Labour and 6 Conservative, so that Labour actually had 67 seats to 38 for the Conservatives following the election. Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1973 were Ken Livingstone (Labour, Lambeth, Norwood), later to lead it, Andrew McIntosh (Labour, Haringey, Tottenham) who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Borough Of Greenwich
The Royal Borough of Greenwich (, , or ) is a London borough in southeast Greater London. The London Borough of Greenwich was formed in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. The new borough covered the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to the east. The local council is Greenwich London Borough Council which meets in Woolwich Town Hall. The council's offices are also based in Woolwich, the main urban centre in the borough. Greenwich is the location of the Greenwich prime meridian, on which all Coordinated Universal Time is based. The prime meridian running through Greenwich and the Greenwich Observatory is where the designation Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT began, and on which all world times are based. In 2012, Greenwich was listed as a top ten global destination by Frommer's – the only UK destination to be listed. To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Greenwich became a Royal Borough on 3 February 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mair Garside
Mair Eluned Garside (born Mair Eluned Rees, 30 August 1931 – 28 April 2018) was a Labour Party (UK), Labour politician in London for more than 60 years. She was born in Cardiff in August 1931. She studied at Cardiff University. On 30 July 1954 at Maendy Congregational Chapel, Maindy, Glamorgan, she married Hugh Garside (1928-1993) from Macclesfield, Cheshire; they had met through the National Association of Labour Student Organisations. They moved to Westminster and lived in Tachbrook Street, Pimlico. She was a friend of John Lanchester's mother, Julia. She represented Woolwich West (London County Council constituency), Woolwich West on the London County Council (1958 - 1961), and then Greenwich (1970 – 1973) and Woolwich East (1973 – 1986) on the Greater London Council. She was Chair of Governors for Waterfield School in Thamesmead and on the Court of Governors of Thames Polytechnic. She became deputy leader (to Ashley Bramall) of the Inner London Education Authority (I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Boaks
Lieutenant Commander William George Boaks (25 May 1904 – 4 April 1986) was a British Royal Navy officer who became a political campaigner for road safety. A pioneer of British eccentric political campaigning, he jointly held the record for the fewest votes recorded for a candidate in a British parliamentary election, taking five at a by-election in 1982. Early life Boaks was born in Walthamstow, into a naval family. His father, William, was a sales clerk for a fruit merchant. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Boaks entered the Royal Navy in 1920, aged 16, as a boy seaman, and was promoted from acting sub-lieutenant to sub-lieutenant on 1 December 1928. He was granted a temporary commission as a flying officer while on attachment to the Royal Air Force between 2 October 1930 and 7 May 1931, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 December 1931, and to lieutenant-commander on 1 December 1939. Boaks was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Middleton
Peggy Arline Middleton (3 January 1916 – 26 August 1974) was a British politician who served on the Greater London Council (GLC). Born in Bristol as Peggy Loughman, she was educated at Kingswood Grammar School. She worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in its features department until 1940, then at Preston Record Office. After having children, she worked at Family Planning until 1950. She then qualified as a teacher at Borthwick College. She taught in Greenwich, where she led a campaign against comics, having found 11-year-olds in her class reading material she considered unsuitable. During this period, she also wrote for the New York-based ''National Guardian''. In 1952, Middleton was elected as a Labour Party member of Greenwich Metropolitan Borough Council. At the 1955 London County Council election, she was additionally elected as a councillor for Greenwich. In 1961/62, she served as Mayor of Greenwich, the youngest person at that time to have held th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-past-the-post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their vote for a candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins even if the top candidate gets less than 50%, which can happen when there are more than two popular candidates. As a winner-take-all method, FPTP often produces disproportional results (when electing members of an assembly, such as a parliament) in the sense that political parties do not get representation according to their share of the popular vote. This usually favours the largest party and parties with strong regional support to the detriment of smaller parties without a geographically concentrated base. Supporters of electoral reform are generally highly critical of FPTP because of this and point out other flaws, such as FPTP's vulnerability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
