Staffordshire is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west,Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east,Warwickshire to the south-east,the West Midlands county and Worcestershire to the south,and Shropshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Stoke-on-Trent,and the county town is Stafford.
Stoke-on-Trent is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire,England,with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). In 2022,the city had an estimated population of 259,965. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme,Alsager,Kidsgrove and Biddulph,which form a conurbation around the city.
George William Stevenson is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Burslem is one of the six towns that along with Hanley,Tunstall,Fenton,Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent form part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire,England. It is often referred to as the "mother town" of Stoke on Trent. The population of the town was included under the Burslem Central ward and had a population of 6,490 in the 2021 Census.
Staffordshire Moorlands is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Karen Bradley,a Conservative who served as Secretary of State for Culture,Media and Sport between 2016 and 2018,before she became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019. As with all constituencies,the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years. This seat has seen a swing to the Conservatives at the past four elections.
Stoke-on-Trent Central is a constituency in Staffordshire. It was represented by Jo Gideon of the Conservative Party from the general election of 2019,who announced in early 2023 that she would not be seeking reelection and accordingly left office at the dissolution of that parliament.
Stoke-on-Trent North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by David Williams,a member of the Labour Party.
Stoke-on-Trent South is a constituency created in 1950,and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Allison Gardner,a Labour party representative. The local electorate returned a Labour MP in every election until 2017,when Jack Brereton became its first Conservative MP. The seat is non-rural and in the upper valley of the Trent covering half of the main city of the Potteries,a major ceramics centre since the 17th century.
Robert Charles Douglas Flello is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent South from 2005 to 2017. He lost his seat at the 2017 general election to Conservative Party candidate Jack Brereton.
Stoke-on-Trent railway station is a mainline railway station serving the city of Stoke-on-Trent,on the Stafford to Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line. It also provides an interchange between local services running through Cheshire,Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority of Stoke-on-Trent,Staffordshire,England. As a unitary authority,it has the combined powers of a county council and district council and is administratively separate from the rest of Staffordshire.
Hanley was a borough constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1885 and 1950. Elections were held using the first past the post voting system.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999,the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England,Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.
Blurton is a district in the south of Stoke-on-Trent,in the English county of Staffordshire. Hollybush,Old Blurton,Blurton Farm and Newstead are the names of the areas in which make up the town known as Blurton.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council elections are held every four years. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire,England. Since the last boundary changes in 2023,44 councillors have been elected from 34 wards.
There was a by-election in the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central on 23 February 2017 following the resignation of Labour's Tristram Hunt,who became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It took place alongside a by-election in Copeland.
Jack Edgar Brereton is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stoke-on-Trent South constituency from the 2017 general election until 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he is a former councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
The 2019 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.
Jonathan Edward Gullis is a ex British politician and teacher who has served as a Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party since 26 March 2024 and previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2019 to 2024. He was previously appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards by Liz Truss in September 2022 but was dismissed shortly after Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in October 2022. In March 2024,Gullis was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party,replacing Luke Hall who had been appointed Minister of State for Skills,Apprenticeships and Higher Education.
