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2019 Whitefoot By-election
Whitefoot was, until 2022, an electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. Its area is south-east of Charing Cross, and north of Downham, south of Catford, west of Grove Park, and east of Bellingham. The ward was named after Whitefoot Lane, which formed much of its northern boundary. Part of the South Eastern Main Line between Hither Green and Grove Park stations marked the whole eastern edge of the ward. The western boundary followed some of the Catford Loop Line, between Bellingham and Beckenham Hill stations, and small parts of two A-roads, South End Lane ( A2218) and Bromley Road ( A21). The Whitefoot area is covered by two postcode districts, in the south and in the north; most of their common boundary follows Whitefoot Lane. Hither Green Cemetery is on the east side of the ward, and Forster Memorial Park in the west. One of the ward's councillors from 2010 to 2019 was Labour's Janet Daby, who resigned to concentrate on her role as the MP for Lewisham Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewisham London Borough Council
Lewisham London Borough Council, also known as Lewisham Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Lewisham in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour Party (UK), Labour majority control since 2010. It has been led by a Directly elected mayors in England, directly elected mayor since 2002. The council meets at Lewisham Town Hall in the Catford area of the borough. History There has been an elected Lewisham local authority since 1856 when the Lewisham District (Metropolis), Lewisham District was created, covering the ancient parish of Lewisham and the Hamlet (place), hamlet of Penge, governed by an elected board. It was one of the List of London vestries and district boards, lower tier authorities within the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, which was established to provide services across the metropolis of London. In 1889 the Metropolitan Board of Works' area was made the County of Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Postcodes
Postal codes used in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies are known as postcodes (originally, postal codes). They are alphanumeric (the UK is one of only 11 countries or territories to use alphanumeric codes out of the 160 postcode using members of the ICU) and were adopted nationally between 11 October 1959 and 1974, having been devised by the General Post Office (Royal Mail). The system was designed to aid in sorting mail for delivery. It uses alphanumeric codes to designate geographic areas. A full postcode identifies a group of addresses (typically around 10) or a major delivery point. It consists of an outward code and inward code. The outward code indicates the area and district, while the inward code specifies the sector and delivery point. The initial postcode system evolved from named postal districts introduced in London and other large cities from 1857. Districts in London were then subdivided in 1917, with each allocated a distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Lewisham London Borough Council Election
Elections for Lewisham London Borough Council were held on 3 May 2018, the same day as for other London Boroughs. All 54 seats were up for election. The Labour Party won all 54 seats in a landslide victory, winning 60% of the popular vote. The Green Party lost their sole council seat, leaving the party without representation on Lewisham Borough Council for the first time in 16 years. Overall results Results by ward Asterisk denotes the sitting councillor. Bellingham Blackheath Brockley John Coughlin was the sole Opposition councillor (2014-2018) and subsequently lost his seat. Catford South In June 2019, Smith left the Labour Party in opposition to Jeremy Corbyn, the then Leader of the party. He now sits as an Independent. Crofton Park Downham Evelyn Forest Hill Grove Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Evelyn By-election
Evelyn is an electoral ward in the northwest of the London Borough of Lewisham. It covers the northern part of Deptford on the south bank of the River Thames, and is the only Lewisham ward that borders the river. It returns councillors to Lewisham London Borough Council. Name It is named after John Evelyn John Evelyn (31 October 162027 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diary, diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. John Evelyn's Diary, ... who settled in Deptford with his wife in 1652. Their house, Sayes Court, adjacent to the naval dockyard, was purchased by Evelyn from his father-in-law Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of Deptford, Sir Richard Browne in 1653 and Evelyn soon began to transform the gardens. Lewisham council elections since 2022 There was a revision of ward boundaries in Lewisham in 2022. The Evelyn ward lost territory to Deptford (ward), Deptford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Lewisham London Borough Council Election
The 2014 Lewisham Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Lewisham Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Labour won 53 of 54 seats in a landslide victory, with one seat in Brockley ward held by the Green Party. Results Results by ward Bellingham *Other candidates with fewer than 500 votes: Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, TUSC. Brockley Ladywell *Other candidates with fewer than 1,000 votes: Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats, Lewisham People Before Profit. Perry Vale *Other candidates with fewer than 500 votes: Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats, Lewisham People Before Profit, UKIP. References {{2014 United Kingdom local elections Lewisham 2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Lewisham London Borough Council Election ...
Elections to the London Borough of Lewisham council were held on 6 May 2010. The elections were won by the Labour Party, who achieved a landslide victory. Summary of results References {{United Kingdom local elections, 2010 2010 Lewisham Lewisham ( ) is an area of southeast London, England, south of Charing Cross. It is the principal area of the London Borough of Lewisham, and was within the Historic counties of England, historic county of Kent until 1889. It is identified in ... [...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] |
2006 Lewisham London Borough Council Election
Elections to Lewisham London Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election. Lewisham local elections are held every four years, with the next due in 2010. Election result The Green Party won all three seats in the Brockley and Ladywell wards and the Socialist Alternative won two seats in the Telegraph Hill ward. Election for Mayor ¹Under the Supplementary Vote system, if no candidate receives 50% of 1st choice votes, 2nd choice votes are added to the result for the top two 1st choice candidates. If a ballot gives a first and second preference to the top two candidates in either order, then their second preference is not counted, so that a second preference cannot count against a first. ²Percentage figures are not officially used on the final votes, they are produced here for illustration and are calculated by the candidates final vote divided by the total of final votes. Ward re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Lewisham East By-election
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Lewisham East on 14 June 2018, following the resignation of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. It was the second by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament, which was elected in June 2017. The election was won by Janet Daby of the Labour Party with 50.2% of the vote, on a significantly reduced majority for her party. Background On 8 May 2018, the incumbent Labour MP Heidi Alexander announced her appointment as London Deputy Mayor for Transport, a role that required her to stand down from the House of Commons. On 9 May she was appointed Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, an office of profit under the Crown, which legally formalised her resignation from Parliament. She served as the MP for Lewisham East for eight years, having first been elected at the 2010 general election. She served in Labour's Shadow Cabinet until 2016, and was an active campaigner for the United Kingdom to remain in the singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewisham East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Lewisham East is a parliamentary constituency in South London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the by-election on 14 June 2018 by Janet Daby of the Labour Party. Constituency profile The constituency stretches from affluent Blackheath to the wards to the south of the constituency which contain more social housing and less architectural grandeur. Incidence of social deprivation is highest towards central Lewisham and the Rushey Green area of Catford, a low-to-middle income area which was home to one of the first indoor shopping malls in England. At the southern end of the constituency is Grove Park, one of the quieter and more prosperous parts of Lewisham, and more marginal between Labour and the Conservatives than the rest of the borough. Some wards in the constituency are steadily increasing in average income and median age, and thus have become Conservative targets in local elections. Nonetheless, Labour MP Heidi Alexander increased her majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. Since the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, Parliament is automatically dissolved once five years have elapsed from its first meeting after an election. If a Vacancy (economics), vacancy arises at another time, due to death or Resignation from the British House of Commons, resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Daby
Janet Jessica Daby (''née'' Sarju; born 15 December 1970) is a British Labour Party (UK), Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East (UK Parliament constituency), Lewisham East since 2018 Lewisham East by-election, 2018. She has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families since July 2024. Early life and career Janet Sarju was born on 15 December 1970 to parents who were Windrush generation, ''Windrush'' migrants from Guyana and Jamaica. She attended Blackheath Bluecoat School in Greenwich. Daby then studied at Brunel University, graduating with a BSc, before graduating with a MSc at London School of Economics. Daby worked in volunteer management and children's social care, acting as a registered fostering manager. She founded the Whitefoot and Downham Community Food + Project in 2013, for which she became a director. Political career Daby was elected as a Lewisham Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
