Parmjit Singh Gill (born 20 December 1966) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. As Member of Parliament for

Leicester South Leicester South is a constituency, recreated in 1974, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2011 by Jonathan Ashworth of the Labour Co-op Party (which denotes he is a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Part ...

from July 2004 to May 2005, he was the first ethnic-minority Liberal Democrat MP. He was first elected as Liberal Democrat councillor for Leicester City Council's

Stoneygate Stoneygate is part of the City of Leicester, England. Situated on the south-east side of the city some two miles from the centre, Stoneygate is a mainly residential suburb characterised by its large Victorian houses. It straddles the London Roa ...

Ward, before being elected to the House of Commons at the Leicester South by-election on 15 July 2004. He contested the seat again at the 2005 general election, but this time came second to the Labour Party candidate, Sir Peter Soulsby. He continued to serve as on Stoneygate Ward until he was defeated in May 2011. He was initially selected to run as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the

2011 Leicester South by-election The Leicester South by-election was held to elect a Member of Parliament (MP) of the United Kingdom for the Leicester South constituency on 5 May 2011. It was prompted by the resignation of Sir Peter Soulsby of the Labour Party, who stood dow ...

after Soulsby stood down to run for mayor for Leicester. However, he stood down after a short time, citing family pressures and was replaced by Zuffar Haq. He works as a local authority

information management Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...

and

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consultant for Charnwood Borough Council. Prior to that he worked as a data protection administrator for Leicester City Council. He is married to Juliet Gill, and the couple have a son and daughter.

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profile 10 February 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Parmjit Singh 1966 births Living people British politicians of Indian descent Liberal Democrats (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 2001–2005 Politicians from Leicester Councillors in Leicestershire People from Stoneygate 21st-century English politicians Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors British people of Punjabi descent

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