Oldham East And Saddleworth United Kingdom General Election 2010 Rerun
The 2011 by-election in Oldham East and Saddleworth was a by-election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons Electoral district, constituency of Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament constituency), Oldham East and Saddleworth held on 13 January 2011. Labour Party candidate Debbie Abrahams held the seat for her party with an increased majority over the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats, succeeding Phil Woolas, whose victory in the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election had been declared void because he had knowingly made false statements attacking his Liberal Democrat opponent's personal character. Background The election was triggered on 5 November 2010 after sitting MP Phil Woolas was Phil Woolas#2010 re-election and election court case, reported personally guilty of "knowingly making false statements" about the personal character of his Liberal Democrat opponent, Elwyn Watkins, during ...
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Oldham East And Saddleworth (UK Parliament Constituency)
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers River Irk, Irk and River Medlock, Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, which had a population of 237,110 in 2019. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, and with little Early modern Britain, early history to speak of, Oldham rose to prominence in the 19th century as an international centre of Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, textile manufacture. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and among the first ever Industrialisation, industrialised towns, rapidly becoming "one of the most important centres of cotton and textile industries in England." At its zenith, it was the most productive Spinning (textiles), cotton spinning mill town in the world,. producing more cotton than France and Germany combined. Oldham' ...
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