Yarm,also referred to as Yarm-on-Tees,is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees,North Yorkshire,England. It is in Teesdale with a town centre on a small meander of the River Tees. To the south-east,it extends to the River Leven,to the south it extends into the Kirklevington.
Robert Adam Ross Maclennan,Baron Maclennan of Rogart,was a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer.
William Thomas Rodgers,Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank,,is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament,he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979,and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988,and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.
Dick Taverne,Baron Taverne,is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he was a Labour MP until his deselection in 1972,following which he resigned his seat and won the subsequent by-election in 1973 as a Democratic Labour candidate.
Thomas McNally,Baron McNally,PC is a British politician and a former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.
Herbert William Bowden,Baron Aylestone,was a British Labour politician.
John Cameron Cartwright is a former politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Labour and then an SDP Member of Parliament (MP) representing Woolwich East then Woolwich from the October 1974 general election to the 1992 election.
Stockton South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Matt Vickers,a Conservative MP.
Stockton North is a constituency covering the town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham and other nearby settlements in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees located north of the River Tees,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Alex Cunningham,a member of the Labour Party.
Stockton-on-Tees is a former borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election from 1868 to 1983.
Jesse Dickson Mabon,sometimes known as Dick Mabon,was a Scottish politician,physician and business executive. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs,an alliance of moderate MPs who fought the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until October 1981,when he defected to the SDP. He lost his seat in 1983,and rejoined the Labour Party in 1991.
The 1962 Stockton-on-Tees by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham on 5 April 1962. It was the by-election at which Bill Rodgers,a future Cabinet minister and member of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the SDP,entered Parliament. Rodgers subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats,and later served as that party's leader in the House of Lords. In the circumstances it is not without irony that Rodgers remembers future Liberal leader David Steel,then not yet a Member of Parliament (MP),loudly booing the result of the election at Stockton from the floor of the count.
Ian Cameron Swales is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Redcar in England. Swales took Redcar from Labour incumbent Vera Baird for the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 general election,with a 21.8% swing. Swales added over 10,000 votes to his 2005 general election total. This was the biggest swing against any Labour candidate in the election and was also biggest majority overcome by any Liberal Democrat,until the 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election. He stood down at the 2015 general election.
James Stephen Wharton,Baron Wharton of Yarm is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for his home constituency of Stockton South from the 2010 general election,until losing his seat in the 2017 general election. Wharton was appointed Minister for the Northern Powerhouse after his re-election in 2015 and moved to a ministerial position in the Department for International Development by Theresa May in 2016. In September 2020,he took his seat as a member of the House of Lords,taking the title Baron Wharton of Yarm.
Alexander Cunningham is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Shadow Minister for Courts and Sentencing since 2020.
On 29 November 2012,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough. The by-election was caused by the death of its Member of Parliament,Sir Stuart Bell. It was held on the same day as by-elections in Croydon North and Rotherham.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a centrist to centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. The party supported a mixed economy,electoral reform,European integration and a decentralised state while rejecting the possibility of trade unions being overly influential within the industrial sphere. The SDP officially advocated social democracy,but its actual propensity is evaluated as close to social liberalism.
The inaugural Tees Valley mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the mayor of the Tees Valley Combined Authority. The mayor was elected by the supplementary vote system. Subsequent elections will be held in May 2021 and every four years after 2024.
Ben Houchen,Baron Houchen of High Leven,is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Tees Valley Mayor in May 2017 after winning the 2017 mayoral election,defeating Labour candidate Sue Jeffrey by 2.2 per cent in the second round. He was re-elected in 2021,defeating the Labour candidate,Jessie Joe Jacobs with a landslide 72% of the vote.
Matthew Alexander Vickers is a British politician serving as the member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South since 2019,and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party since July 2022.
