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.
Joan Lorraine Walley is a British Labour Party politician,who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North from the 1987 general election until 2015.
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Rushcliffe is a constituency in Nottinghamshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2024 by James Naish,a Labour MP.
Gedling is a constituency in Nottinghamshire created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Michael Payne of the Labour Party. The seat was safely Conservative until the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1997,when it was won for Labour by Vernon Coaker. Labour held Gedling until 2019,when it was regained by the Conservative Party.
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 saw a swing to the Conservatives at the elections from 2010–2019.
Stoke-on-Trent Central is a constituency in Staffordshire. It has been represented by Gareth Snell of the Labour Party since 2024. He previously represented the constituency between 2017 and 2019. He succeeded Jo Gideon of the Conservative Party who defeated him in the general election of 2019. She 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.
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.
The City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College is a mixed sixth form college on Leek Road,Stoke-on-Trent. It opened its new building on Leek Road in September 2010 having previously been located on Victoria Road,Fenton. The college is also known as Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College,and - prior to its relocation - Fenton Sixth Form College.
Ruth Lauren Smeeth,Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2015 until 2019. Since 2022 she has been a member of the House of Lords.
Gareth Craig Snell is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2017 to 2019. He regained the seat at the 2024 general election. A member of Labour Co-op,he was Leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council from 2012 to 2014. In July 2022,Snell was reselected as the Labour Parliamentary Prospective Candidate for Stoke-on-Trent Central.
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.
Joanna Mary Gideon is a British Conservative Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency from the 2019 general election to the 2024 general election.
Jonathan Edward Gullis is a British politician and former teacher who 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.
The 2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. New ward boundaries took effect for this election,although the number of councillors stayed the same at 44.
