Oliver James Coppard (born 1981) is a British Labour Co-op politician, serving as the

Mayor of South Yorkshire The Mayor of South Yorkshire is a combined authority mayor, first elected in May 2018, who chairs the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. The office is currently held by Oliver Coppard. The office was created under the Cities and Local ...

since May 2022.

Political career

Coppard was the Labour candidate for Sheffield Hallam at the 2015 general election. In the 2022 South Yorkshire mayoral election, Coppard was chosen as the Labour candidate. He won the election, getting a plurality of votes in the first round, at 43.1% and defeating the

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candidate Clive Watkinson by a margin of 71.4% to 28.6% in the second round.

Early life and education

Coppard attended

Silverdale School Silverdale School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is the founding school of Chorus Education Trust (formerly Silverdale Multi-Academy Trust). It opened in 1957 ...

, followed by High Storrs School, before pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. He is the Board Chair at the Sheffield Hallam Students' Union. He is a resident of Sheffield.

References

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