Connor Naismith | |
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Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich | |
Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Kieran Mullan |
Majority | 9,727 [1] |
Personal details | |
Political party | Labour |
Connor Naismith is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich since 2024. He was elected with 44.1% of the vote on a turnout of 60.2%. [2]
Prior to his election to Parliament,Naismith was a member of Cheshire East Council,representing the Crewe West ward,first being elected in May 2021 and re-elected in 2023. [3]
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody was a British Labour Party politician,who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1966 to 1970,and then for Crewe from February 1974 to her death in 2008. She was a moderate socialist and had a reputation as a fiercely independent parliamentarian,described as "intelligent,obstinate,opinionated and hard-working".
Crewe and Nantwich was,from 1974 to 2009,a local government district with borough status in Cheshire,England. It had a population of 111,007. It contained 69 civil parishes and one unparished area:the town of Crewe. It now forms part of the unitary authority of Cheshire East.
Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire,England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England,with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture. It had a population of 14,045 in 2021.
Michael Henry Nattrass FRICS is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands constituency,from 2004 to 2014. He was elected as a candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) for the first time in June 2004 and re-elected in June 2009,but resigned from the party in September 2013. He lost his seat in the May 2014 election.
Congleton is a parliamentary constituency in Cheshire,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sarah Russell of the Labour Party.
Crewe and Nantwich is a constituency in Cheshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was created in 1983;since 2024 its Member of Parliament (MP) has been Connor Naismith of the Labour Party.
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Basford is a hamlet and former civil parish,now in the parish of Weston and Crewe Green,in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire,England,lying immediately south of Crewe. Nearby villages include Shavington,Weston,Hough and Chorlton. The population was 256 in 2011. Basford was first recorded in the Domesday survey and had a moated manor. The modern parish is bisected by the A500 and the Crewe-to-Stafford railway line,and includes Basford Hall Sorting Sidings.
Mid Cheshire is a former two-member United Kingdom parliamentary constituency which existed in the 19th century.
Crewe was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in Cheshire,England. The local authority is Cheshire East Council,which is based in the town of Sandbach. Other towns within the area include Crewe,Macclesfield,Congleton,Wilmslow,Nantwich,Poynton,Knutsford,Alsager,Bollington and Handforth.
The 2008 Crewe and Nantwich by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 May 2008,for the House of Commons constituency of Crewe and Nantwich,in Cheshire,England. The election was won by the Conservative party candidate Edward Timpson,who defeated the Labour party candidate Tamsin Dunwoody,on a swing from Labour to Conservative of 17.6%,a swing that in a general election would have seen nine Labour cabinet ministers lose their seats.
Anthony Edward Timpson,is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eddisbury in Cheshire from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Cheshire East Council is the local authority for Cheshire East,a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire,England. The council is a unitary authority,being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. It has been under no overall control since 2019,being run by a coalition of Labour,local parties and independent councillors,led by Labour councillor Sam Corcoran. The council's main offices are in Sandbach,but there are plans to move them to Crewe.
Laura Smith is a British politician who served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Crewe and Nantwich from 2017 to 2019. In 2017,she defeated the incumbent Conservative Edward Timpson by 48 votes,before losing her seat at the 2019 general election.
Kieran Mullan is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bexhill and Battle. He was previously the MP for Crewe and Nantwich between 2019 and 2024.
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of the City of Chester was held on 1 December 2022. It followed the resignation of incumbent member of Parliament Chris Matheson as on 21 October 2022 after accusations of sexual misconduct and a recommendation from the Independent Expert Panel that he be suspended from the House of Commons for four weeks.
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