Community Group was a British

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, founded in 2001. The Community Group had four councillors serving on

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in 2009. There were no Community Group councillors elected at the most recent election to Doncaster Council in

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. The party deregistered in 2018. The party was founded in the wake of a political scandal dubbed "Donnygate" that saw 21 Doncaster councillors convicted of expenses fraud from 1997. The party had 6 borough councillors in Doncaster in 2001. Party leader Martin Williams contested

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at the 2005 general election against

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, receiving 2,365 votes (7.5%, in fourth place). Jessie Credland stood for election as

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of Doncaster for the party in 2005, coming fourth with 10,263 votes (9.4%). Garth Oxby defected to become an independent in May 2005 following a deal made with the Labour group for Community Group councillors to be given positions chairing council committees, a deal repeated the following year. Richard Walker and Jessie Credland also later left to sit as independent members. The party lost John Cooke's seat to Labour in 2007. In 2007, the party also had 10 town councillors. Former Doncaster

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Mayor Peter Davies was associated with the group. The Community Group's own candidate, Stuart Exelby, formerly a Labour councillor and deputy mayor from 2008–9, received 2152 votes. Martin Williams said of his election, "I am happy about this," but in February 2010 said that "I think the mayoral system is in tatters... It has been tried and failed."

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