Robert Adam Ross "Bob" 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.
Roger Hugh Williams,CBE is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire from 2001 to 2015.
Herbert William Bowden,Baron Aylestone was a British Labour politician.
John Cameron Cartwright was a British politician. 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 was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2019 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Matt Vickers of the Conservative 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 Teesside Development Corporation was a government-backed development corporation that was established in 1987 to fund and manage regeneration projects in the former county of Cleveland in North East England.
Durham County Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of County Durham in North East England. The council is a unitary authority,being a non-metropolitan county council which also performs the functions of a non-metropolitan district council. It has its headquarters at County Hall in Durham.
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. He is the only person ever to gain a North East Region Commons seat for the Liberal Democrats. Swales took Redcar from Labour incumbent Vera Baird for the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 general election,with a 21.8% swing adding over 11,000 votes to his 2005 general election total. This was the biggest swing against any Labour candidate in the election and was also the 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 served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he was Shadow Minister for Courts and Sentencing from 2020 to 2024.
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 industrial relations. The SDP officially advocated social democracy,and unofficially for social liberalism as well.
The 1992 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 5 June 1992 following the advice of the Prime Minister,John Major.
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 were held in May 2021 and every four years after 2024.
Ben Houchen,Baron Houchen of High Leven,is a British Conservative politician and life peer. He has been Tees Valley Mayor since 2017,winning the inaugural mayoral election in the combined authority. Houchen was re-elected in 2021 and won a third term in 2024.
Matthew Alexander Vickers is a British Conservative politician who serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton West and Shadow Minister for Crime,Policing and Fire. Prior to boundary changes,he had previously been the MP for Stockton South from 12 December 2019 to 30 May 2024.
