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.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire,England. It is adjacent to the city of Stoke-on-Trent. In 2021 the population was 75,082.
The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire,England.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a constituency in northern Staffordshire created in 1354 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Adam Jogee of the Labour Party. It was the last UK constituency to be co-represented by a member of the Conservative Party when it was dual-member,before the 1885 general election which followed the Reform Act 1884 and the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. In 1919 the local MP,Josiah Wedgwood,shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party to the Labour Party and the seat elected the Labour candidate at each election for the next hundred years,a total of 29 elections in succession. Labour came close to losing the seat in 1969,1986,2015 and 2017,and eventually lost the seat in 2019.
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 North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by David Williams,a member of the Labour Party.
The 1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 July 1986 for the House of Commons constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
This article lists the British National Party's election results in the UK parliamentary,Scottish parliamentary and Welsh Assembly elections,as well as in the European Parliament elections and at a local level.
Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2016 to 2017. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate,and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England between 2009 and 2019,sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. He left UKIP in December 2018,criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson,and joined the Brexit Party in 2019.
Michelle Margaret Freda Brown is a British lawyer and former politician who was a Member of the Senedd (MS) for North Wales from 2016 to 2021. In March 2019 she resigned from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to become an independent.
An election to Staffordshire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 62 electoral divisions returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. Following a boundary review,new electoral division boundaries were established for this election. No elections were held in Stoke-on-Trent,which is a unitary authority outside the area covered by the County Council. The council continues to be administered on the Leader and Cabinet model.
Anne Marie Dorothy Waters is a far-right politician and activist in the United Kingdom. She founded and led the anti-Islam party For Britain until its dissolution in 2022. She is also the director of Sharia Watch UK,an organisation launched in April 2014. In January 2016,Waters launched Pegida UK in conjunction with activist Tommy Robinson and far-right politician Paul Weston.
The 2021 London Assembly election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the members of the London Assembly,alongside the 2021 London mayoral election. The mayoral and Assembly elections were originally to be held on 7 May 2020,but on 13 March 2020 it was announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the sixth election since the Assembly was established in 2000. Due to the previous term being extended to 5 years,those elected would only serve a three-year term until the next election in 2024. The election was held on the same day in 2021 as other elections in the UK;the UK local elections,Scottish Parliament election,and Welsh Senedd election.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham in Lincolnshire,England,was held on 8 December 2016. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative member of parliament (MP) Stephen Phillips,who left Parliament on 4 November 2016 due to policy differences with the Conservative government led by the prime minister,Theresa May,over Brexit –the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson,a paediatrician,to replace Phillips;she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote,a sizable majority. The Conservatives' vote share fell slightly compared to the result at the previous general election in 2015.
A by-election took place in the British parliamentary constituency of Copeland on 23 February 2017,following the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Jamie Reed. Conservative candidate Trudy Harrison gained the seat from Labour,the first gain for a governing party in a by-election since 1982.
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 For Britain Movement was a minor far-right political party in the United Kingdom,founded by the anti-Islam and "counter-jihad" activist Anne Marie Waters after she was defeated in the 2017 UK Independence Party leadership election.
