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2004 Sheffield City Council Election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 2003, reducing the number of seats by 3. This election was the first all-postal vote election held, dramatically improving overall turnout by 14.4% on the previous election to 43.9%. The Labour Party kept its overall majority and continued to run the council, albeit on a much slimmer majority. Previous to the boundary changes, sitting Hillsborough councillor Peter MacLoughlin defected from the Liberal Democrats to an Independent, choosing not to contest this election. Election result This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: Ward results Arbourthorne Julie Dore and John Robson were sitting councillors for Park, Timothy Rippon was a sitting councillor for Southey Green, Robert McCann was a sitting councillor for Intake, Christopher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Sheffield City Council Election
The 2003 Sheffield Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Sheffield City Council. One third of the council was up for election, and Labour took control of the council from no overall control, with six gains from the Liberal Democrats. The election saw a trial of electronic voting in half of the council's wards. Voters in these wards were able to vote by either text message, touch tone phone, internet, post, or use electronic kiosks as well as the normal polling stations. Overall turnout was 29.5%, a half a per cent fall on the previous year, a drop negated somewhat by the higher turnout in the wards trialing electronic voting. Election result This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: Ward results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Harpham
Robert Harry Harpham (21 February 1954 – 4 February 2016) was a British Labour Party politician and coal miner. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from the May 2015 general election until he died nine months later. He was succeeded by his widow, Gill Furniss, as the MP for the seat at the ensuing by-election. Early life and education Harpham was born on 21 February 1954 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Harpham moved to Sheffield in 1985, and studied at Northern College in Barnsley and the University of Sheffield as a mature student. He graduated from Sheffield with a Bachelor's degree in 1991. Career Early career Harpham left school at 16, and became a coal miner at Clipstone Colliery. He took part in the miners' strike of 1984–85 as an NUM member, staying out for the duration. Political career In 2000, Harpham was elected to Sheffield City Council, serving as a councillor for Manor ward. He represented Darnall w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 English Local Elections
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character fo ... [...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, he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the 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 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, and stood in the 2004 and 2009 European elections, being the party's No.2 list candidate in the Yorkshire and the Humber region on bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gill Furniss
Gillian Furniss (born 14 March 1957) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough since 2016. She was a Member of Sheffield City Council from 1999 to 2016. Early life and career Gillian Furniss was born in Sheffield on 14 March 1957, the daughter of a steel worker, and was educated at the Chaucer School, Sheffield. After leaving school, she worked as a librarian, and went on to work as an administrator at the Northern General Hospital. In 1998 – as a mature student – she graduated BA in Library and Information Studies, from Leeds Metropolitan University. Political career Furniss unsuccessfully stood as the Labour candidate in the Hillsborough Ward in 1998. She was subsequently elected in the Manor ward in 1999 and re-elected in 2003. With the introduction of new ward boundaries for the 2004 Sheffield City Council election, she was elected to represent Southey ward. She was re-elected in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Coppard
Oliver James Coppard (born 9 June 1981) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as Mayor of South Yorkshire since 2022. He was re-elected in 2024 South Yorkshire mayoral election, 2024. Early life and education Coppard attended Silverdale School and High Storrs School. He was awarded a bachelor's degree in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from the University of Leeds. During his tenure at Leeds, he interned in the office of Dick Gephardt, then the House Democratic Caucus, Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives, US House of Representatives. Coppard later interned in the office of Meg Munn when she was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley (UK Parliament constituency), Sheffield Heeley. Political career At the 2004 Sheffield City Council election, Coppard was one of three Labour candidates who unsuccessfully contested Graves Park (ward), Graves Park. Coppard volunteered for the Barack Obama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared O'Mara
Jared Cain O'Mara (born 15 November 1981) is a British convicted fraudster and former Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019. Elected at the 2017 general election for the Labour Party, O'Mara unexpectedly won the seat from former Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. In October 2017, it was revealed that O'Mara had posted misogynistic, racist and homophobic online comments before he became an MP. He resigned from the Women and Equalities Select Committee, and was suspended from the Labour Party. After being briefly reinstated, he resigned from the Labour Party in July 2018. He has cerebral palsy and hemiparesis, and later stated that he was the first autistic MP in history. O'Mara took lengthy periods of time off for mental health issues, and never asked an oral question in his two-year parliamentary career. He missed key Brexit votes in the House of Commons, and showed what was described by an aide as "vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaffaq Mohammed
Shaffaq Mohammed, Baron Mohammed of Tinsley, (born 21 July 1972) is a British politician and life peer. He served as a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 until Brexit in 2020. He stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Sheffield Hallam in the House of Commons at the 2024 general election, coming second to Olivia Blake of Labour. In February 2025, he became a member of the House of Lords. Early life Mohammed was born on 21 July 1972 in Mirpur, a city in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. He was aged four when his family moved to the United Kingdom. In April 1977 he moved to Sheffield and studied at Park House school and later on graduated from the University of Sheffield. Political career Sheffield City Council Between 2004 and 2014 Mohammed served as the Liberal Democrat councillor for Broomhill Ward on Sheffield City Council. He contested Crookes Ward in 2014 and was defeated. He returned as a councillor f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Sheffield City Council Election
Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 4 May 2006 with polling stations open between 7am and 10pm. One third of council seats were up for election; one in each ward, plus one additional seat in Ecclesall due to a resignation. The overall turnout this year was 34.5%, down considerably from the previous year's general election turnout at 43.9 per cent turnout in Sheffield. Councillors before and after the election Election result This result has 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 Ecclesall Firth Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scriven
Paul James Scriven, Baron Scriven (born 7 February 1966), is a Liberal Democrat politician and life peer. Leader of Sheffield City Council from 2008 to 2011, he was once described as Nick Clegg's "closest ally in local government". Scriven has been a member of the House of Lords since 2014. Early and professional life Scriven was raised on a council estate in Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Rawthorpe High School, Huddersfield. After working for two years for a road construction firm, he returned to education at 18 to study his O-levels and A-levels at Huddersfield Technical College. He attended Manchester Polytechnic (later Manchester Metropolitan University) to read for a BA. From 1989 to 1990 he was president of its students' union. He started his graduate working life on the 'fast tracked' general management trainee scheme in the National Health Service. After the scheme he worked at a number of NHS hospitals and NHS organisations in senio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Smith (South Yorkshire Politician)
Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 to 2019 and MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously an MP for Labour, later for Change UK, later still as a member of The Independents, then joined the Liberal Democrats before leaving Parliament in 2019. She rejoined Labour in 2022. Smith was an early critic of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, backing a no-confidence vote in 2016; in part due to this position, she lost a no-confidence motion in her constituency. She resigned from Labour in February 2019 alongside six other MPs in protest at Corbyn's leadership, and they formed the Independent Group, later Change UK. In June 2019, she left Change UK to sit as an independent MP before joining the Liberal Democrats in September. At the 2019 general election, she stood as a Liberal Democrat in Altrincham and Sale We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
