The Liberal Party is a liberal political party in the United Kingdom that was founded in 1989 as a continuation of the original Liberal Party by members who opposed its merger with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to form the Liberal Democrats. The party holds six local council seats. The party promotes a hybrid of both classical and social liberal tendencies.
John Alexander Melvin Hemming is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businessman who served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 2005 until 2015.
Hull City Council elections are held three years out of every four to elect members of Hull City Council,the unitary authority which governs the city of Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire,England. Since the last boundary changes in 2018,the council has comprised 57 councillors representing 21 wards with each ward electing either 2 or 3 councillors.
Rabina Khan is a Bangladeshi-born British writer,politician,former councillor for Shadwell and Cabinet Member for Housing in Tower Hamlets Council,community worker and author of Ayesha's Rainbow. In 2015,she unsuccessfully contested the Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election. She was the leader of the People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets,but joined the Liberal Democrats on 29 August 2018.
Beverley Nielsen is an entrepreneur,educator and campaigner who works as executive director,Institute for Design,Economic Acceleration &Sustainability (IDEAS) at Birmingham City University. She has previously worked as a director for AGA Rangemaster,and as managing director for Fired Earth. In 2016 Nielsen was selected as the Liberal Democrat Candidate for the Mayor of the West Midlands,standing as the first and only female candidate,but was defeated in the 2017 mayoral election by Conservative candidate Andy Street,coming third after Labour and ahead of UKIP.
The 2021 West Midlands mayoral election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of the West Midlands,on the same day as other local elections across England and Wales,including councillors in six of its seven boroughs and the police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands city region. This was the second election for the post,which had its first election in 2017 due to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016. The mayor was elected using the supplementary vote system. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020,but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Elections to Manchester City Council were held on 2 May 2019,as part of the 2019 United Kingdom local elections. In 2018 Labour retained its majority of the council with 94 seats to the Liberal Democrats making up the opposition of 2,led by former MP John Leech.
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on Thursday 2 May 2019;one of a number of local council elections taking place across England and Northern Ireland on the same day. One of each ward's three seats was up for election,having last been contested in the 2016 elections.
The 2021 Bristol City Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. It coincided with nationwide local elections. Voters in the city also voted for the mayor of Bristol,the mayor of the West of England and for Avon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020,but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2019 Wyre Forest District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Wyre Forest District Council in Worcestershire,England. They were held on the same day as other local elections.
The 2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 61 councillors were elected from 59 electoral divisions,which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The election was held alongside a full election for Cambridge City Council,the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner,Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and one-third of Peterborough City Council.
Paul Darke CF is a British academic,artist,disability rights activist and whistleblower. Darke is an expert on disability in film and politics.
Elections to Portsmouth City Council took place on Thursday 6 May 2021,alongside other local elections across the country.
The 2022 North Yorkshire Council election took place on 5 May 2022,alongside the other local elections. These were the last elections to North Yorkshire County Council,and the elected councillors would also serve as the first councillors on the North Yorkshire Council,which replaced the existing county council in April 2023.
The 2022 Birmingham City Council election took place on 5 May 2022,with all 101 council seats up for election across 37 single-member and 32 two-member wards. The election was held alongside other local elections across Great Britain and town council elections in Sutton Coldfield.
The 2022 Ealing London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022,under new election boundaries,which increased the number of Ealing London Borough Council councillors to 70. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
The 2022 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. One third of councillors—20 out of 60—were to be elected. The election took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom.
The 2022 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Walsall Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. 21 of the 60 seats were up for election,with 1 ward electing 2 councillors.
