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Mark Fisher is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 1983 to 2010 and Minister for the Arts between 1997 and 1998.
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.
Mike Wolfe is a former politician. He was the first directly elected mayor of Stoke-on-Trent,sitting in office from 2002 to 2005. He was formerly employed as the manager of the Citizens Advice Bureau in the city.
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 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.
Henry Riversdale Grenfell was a British banker and Liberal Party politician.
Samuel Finney was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Ellis Smith was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1945 to 1946. He was elected the first MP for the new Stoke-on-Trent South constituency when the seat was created in 1950,and served until his retirement in 1966. His successor was Jack Ashley.
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.
William Edward Robinson was an English merchant and Liberal Party politician.
Arthur Hollins was an English trade unionist and Labour politician who was a Member of Parliament for Hanley in Staffordshire,England.
Samuel Clowes was an English Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1924 to 1928.
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.
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.
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.
David Williams is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North since 2024.
