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Sheffield City Council Election, 2012
Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 3 May 2012 as part of the 2012 United Kingdom local elections. There were 28 seats up for election, one third of the council. The last election in 2011 gave Labour a majority over the Liberal Democrats with 49 councillors. However, one Independent councillor joined Labour after the election, giving the party 50 seats. Four main parties fielded a full slate of 28 candidates. UKIP also put up a full slate, but Steve Moxon was disendorsed as the party's candidate for Dore and Totley. Labour were defending 11 seats, all of which they successfully held in 2011. The Liberal Democrats were defending 16 seats, 10 of which they lost to Labour in 2011. The Greens were defending 1 seat, which they held in 2011. The Conservatives, UKIP and the smaller parties had no councillors. Election Result The Labour Party gained ten seats from their position following the 2008 election, but this included a seat gained already ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Sheffield City Council Election
Sheffield City Council elections took place on 5 May 2011. There were 28 seats up for election, one third of the council. The last election left the council with no overall control. Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Ben Curran, and Lib Dem-turned-independent Frank Taylor had defected to Labour leaving both parties equal at 41 councillors each. This election saw Labour regain control of the council that they lost in 2006, with nine gains from the Lib Dems. Overall turnout was 41.8%. Councillors elected in 2007 Sheffield Council election defended their seats this year. Election result This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: Ward results Arbourthorne Beauchief & Greenhill Beighton Birley Broomhill Burngreave Central Crookes Darnall Dore & Totley East Ecclesfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Sheffield City Council Election
Sheffield City Council elections took place on May 22, 2014, alongside nationwide local elections and European elections. There were 29 seats up for election, one third of the council with a double vacancy in Walkley. With a Labour majority of 36 and defending 19 seats, it was almost mathematically impossible for Labour to lose control of the council, as they would have needed to lose all 19 of those 19 seats to lose control. Even then, Labour would still have been the largest party. Election result The Labour Party gained one seat from their position following the 2010 election, but this included a seat already gained from the Liberal Democrats via defection in Walkley. Furthermore, another seat already gained from the Liberal Democrats via defection in Beauchief & Greenhill was regained by the Liberal Democrats. This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: Defections Since 2010, when these seats w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield City Council is the city council for the metropolitan borough of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It consists of 84 councillors, elected to represent 28 wards, each with three councillors. It is currently under No Overall Control, with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party each holding chair positions in a proportionate number of committees, with Labour chairing four Committees, the Liberal Democrats chairing three and the Greens chairing two. History The council was founded as the Corporation of Sheffield in 1843, when Sheffield was incorporated (see History of Sheffield). In 1889, it attained county borough status and in 1893 city status. In 1974, the Local Government Act 1972, reconstituted the City Council as a metropolitan district council of South Yorkshire, governed also by South Yorkshire County Council. It established a system of 90 councillors, three to each of 30 wards. This was reduced in 1980 with the merger of the Attercliffe and Dar ... [...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] |
2012 United Kingdom Local Elections
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following 0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Sheffield Council Election
Sheffield City Council elections took place on 5 May 2011. There were 28 seats up for election, one third of the council. The last election left the council with no overall control. Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat councillor Ben Curran, and Lib Dem-turned-independent Frank Taylor had defected to Labour leaving both parties equal at 41 councillors each. This election saw Labour regain control of the council that they lost in 2006, with nine gains from the Lib Dems. Overall turnout was 41.8%. Councillors elected in 2007 Sheffield Council election defended their seats this year. Election result This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: Ward results Arbourthorne Beauchief & Greenhill Beighton Birley Broomhill Burngreave Central Crookes Darnall Dore & Totley East Ecclesfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Moxon (whistleblower)
Steven Paul Moxon is a British former civil servant who came to prominence as a whistleblower in March 2004 while he was employed as a caseworker at the Home Office, the ministerial department of the United Kingdom that handles immigration. Moxon revealed that immigration checks were not being followed for people from Eastern European countries which were due to join the European Union later that year. This led to the resignation of the junior Home Office minister Beverley Hughes. Moxon was selected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for the 2012 local elections in Sheffield, but was deselected following comments he made on his blog about the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Moxon has written two books: one on immigration and the other on the science of the relationship between the sexes. The former attracted praise from some critics, but was criticised by others as "highly selective" and Islamophobic. The latter has been described as "singularly odd" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dore And Totley
Dore and Totley ward—which includes the districts of Bradway , Dore, Totley, and Whirlow—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is currently represented by three Liberal Democrat councillors. It is located in the southwestern part of the city and covers an area of 26.3 km2. The population of this ward in 2001 was 16,404 people in 7,037 households. Dore and Totley ward is one of the five wards that make up the Sheffield Hallam Parliamentary constituency. The population of Dore and Totley is 16,740 (2011) with 7,334 Households. Districts of Dore and Totley ward Dore Dore () is a village in South Yorkshire. Until 1934 it was part of Derbyshire, but it is now a suburb of Sheffield. The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf, and has a reputation of being Sheffield's wealthiest suburb. Totley Totley () is a suburb on the extreme southwest of Sheffield, next to the Yorkshire/Derbyshire boundary. Formerly a Derbyshire village, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Dore
Julie Dore is a British Labour Party politician, who was Leader of Sheffield City Council from May 2011 until January 2021, on which she represents Arbourthorne. She has been a member of Sheffield City Council since she was elected to the predecessor Park Ward in a by-election in October 2000. In 2008 she became Chair of a Council Scrutiny Board, and in May 2010 she joined the Shadow Cabinet. On 11 February 2020 Dore announced that she would not contest her seat at the upcoming local elections in May, and would stand down as leader of the council. However, following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, and the subsequent postponing of the elections until 2021, Dore stated that she would remain as Leader during this "difficult period". Personal life Dore grew up in Wybourn and Arbourthorne, attending Hurlfield School. She lives in Gleadless with two sons. Career For more than two decades, she worked for a social housing association. For 10 years, she worked in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scriven
Paul James Scriven, Baron Scriven (born 7 February 1966) is a Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician and former Leader of Sheffield City Council (2008–11), who was once described as Nick Clegg's "closest ally in local government". Early and professional life Scriven was raised on a council estate in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Netherhall Learning Campus, Rawthorpe High School, Huddersfield, but after working for two years for a road construction firm, he returned to education at 18 to study his GCE Ordinary Level, O and A-Level, A Levels at Kirklees College, Huddersfield Technical College. He attended Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) to read for a BA. From 1989 to 1990 he was president of its Students' union, Students union. He started his working life 'fast tracked' as a graduate trainee in the National Health Service. He worked at a number of hospitals in the UK and later for a number of private compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Lyons
Daniel Louis Lyons is the chief executive officer of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a British animal protection charity. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield and the author of ''The Politics of Animal Experimentation'' (2013)."Honorary Research Fellow: Dan Lyons" , Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. Lyons specializes in the study of Animal testing, animal research, the philosophy of animal rights, and the political representation of animals' interests. He is the former campaigns director of Uncaged Campaigns (1993–2012), a group that opposed animal experiments in the UK, in particular xenotransplantation. During his time with Uncaged, Lyons became known as the author of ''Diaries of Despair'' (2000), a report that reproduced and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Arnott
Jonathan William Arnott (born 12 January 1981) is a British politician and former schoolteacher. After the 2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 2014 European Parliament election, he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East England (European Parliament constituency), North East England region. Originally sitting as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) representative, he resigned from the party on 19 January 2018 to sit as an independent until designating as Brexit Party on 17 April 2019. Early life and career Arnott was born in Sheffield. At the age of 15 he enrolled at the University of Sheffield, graduating with a Master of Mathematics, MMath in mathematics. Arnott was Head of Mathematics at Handsworth Christian School. He is known for his belief that those in politics should keep doing a real-world job, and therefore he continued to teach on a part-time basis until his election as an MEP. Political career Arnott joined UKIP in 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
