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2006 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Election
Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control with a minority Conservative administration. 17 of the 51 seats were up for re-election. Although these are the results after the election, the number of seats per party changed later that year. Councillor Paul Rogan was returned by the Rastrick ward in this election for four years as a Conservative councillor and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below. However, after the 2006 election, he left the party and joined the English Democrats Party. . ''Halifax Courier''. Retrieved 19 August 2017. Also this year, Councillor Nicholas Yates, who had been returned by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Election
Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003. The council stayed under no overall control with a minority Conservative administration. Council results Council Composition After the election the composition of the council was: Ward results Brighouse ward Calder ward Elland ward Greetland and Stainland ward Hipperholme and Lightcliffe ward Illingworth and Mixenden ward Luddendenfoot ward Northowram and Shelf ward Ovenden ward Park ward Rastrick ward Ryburn ward Skircoat ward Sowerby Bridge ward Todmorden ward Town ward Warley ward References {{United Kingdom local elections, 2004 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council Election
Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007 with the exception of the Warley ward which was postponed until 14 June 2007 due to the sudden death of one of the candidates. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control with a minority Conservative administration. The total turnout of the election was 38.01% (51,586 voters of an electorate of 135,729). The winning candidate in each ward is highlighted in bold.Voters oust Tory deputy John Ford – huge blow in Skircoat Green ''The Halifax Evening Courier''. Brighouse Councillor Nick Yates, who had left the Conservative Party in 2006 to become an Independent, joined the Liberal Democrats in the summer of 2007. The tabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Calderdale Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. Since 2014 the council has been a constituent member of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2019. It is based at Halifax Town Hall. History The metropolitan district of Calderdale was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It covered the area of eight former districts and part of a ninth, which were all abolished at the same time: * Brighouse Municipal Borough * Elland Urban District * Halifax County Borough * Hebden Royd Urban District * Hepton Rural District * Queensbury and Shelf Urban District ( Shelf part only, Queensbury went to Bradford) * Ripponden Urban District * Sowerby Bridge Urban District * Todmorden Municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party, often referred to as Labour, is a List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum. The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. It is one of the Two-party system, two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom; the other being the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Labour has been led by Keir Starmer since 2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 2020, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. To date, there have been 12 Labour governments and seven different Labour Prime Ministers – Ramsay MacDonald, MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Attlee, Harold Wilson, Wilson, James Callaghan, Callaghan, Tony Blair, Blair, Gordon Brown, Brown and Starmer. The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Left–right political spectrum, left-right political spectrum. Following its defeat by Labour at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election it is currently the second-largest party by the number of votes cast and number of seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons; as such it has the formal parliamentary role of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. It encompasses various ideological factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites and Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. There have been 20 Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats, colloquially known as the Lib Dems, are a Liberalism, liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988. They are based at Liberal Democrat Headquarters (UK), Liberal Democrat Headquarters, in Westminster, and the leader is Ed Davey. They are the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom, party in the United Kingdom, with 72 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. They have members of the House of Lords, 5 in the Scottish Parliament, 1 in the Welsh Senedd, and more than 3,000 local council seats. The party holds a twice yearly Liberal Democrat Conference, at which policy is formulated. In contrast to its main opponents, the Lib Dems Liberal Democrat Conference#All-member Conference voting system, grant all members attending Conference the right to vote on policy, under a one member, one vote#United Kingdom, one member, one vote system. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or repudiating a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British National Party
The British National Party (BNP) is a Far-right politics, far-right, British fascism, fascist list of political parties in the United Kingdom, political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and is led by Adam Walker (British politician), Adam Walker. A minor party, it has no elected representatives at any level of Government of the United Kingdom, UK government. The party was founded in 1982, and reached its greatest level of success in the 2000s, when it had over fifty seats in Local government in the United Kingdom, local government, one seat on the London Assembly, and two Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament. It has been largely inactive since 2019. Taking its name from that of a British National Party (1960), defunct 1960s far-right party, the BNP was created by John Tyndall (far-right activist), John Tyndall and other former members of the fascist National Front (UK), National Front (NF). During the 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Overall Control
In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom no overall control (NOC; ) is a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats, comparable to a hung parliament. Of the 248 councils who had members up for election in the 2019 local elections, 73 (over a quarter) resulted in a NOC administration. In the 2021 local elections, 14 resulted in no overall control. Outside of the UK, the term may be applied to other local authorities, such as the local councils of Malta and the General Assembly of Budapest in Hungary. Administration Typically, if no party achieves overall control of a council, the largest grouping will form alliances to create an ad hoc governing coalition. Often local authorities have larger proportions of smaller party and independent members than the House of Commons, and when there is no overall control this often results in minor groups having more influence than their numbers alone would suggest. In a result of no overall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Calderdale Council Election
Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003. The council stayed under no overall control with a minority Conservative administration. Council results Council Composition After the election the composition of the council was: Ward results Brighouse ward Calder ward Elland ward Greetland and Stainland ward Hipperholme and Lightcliffe ward Illingworth and Mixenden ward Luddendenfoot ward Northowram and Shelf ward Ovenden ward Park ward Rastrick ward Ryburn ward Skircoat ward Sowerby Bridge ward Todmorden ward Town ward Warley ward References {{United Kingdom local elections, 2004 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Riordan
Linda June Riordan (née Haigh; 31 May 1953) is an English Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax from the 2005 general election until standing down in 2015. Early life Riordan was born in Halifax and graduated from the University of Bradford.‘RIORDAN, Linda’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 201Profile ukwhoswho.com; accessed 7 May 2015.Linda Riordan – Parliamentary candidates , ukpolitics.telegraph.co.uk; accessed 7 May 2015. She served as a councillor for eleven years, representi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
