Leicester is a city,unitary authority area,unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a population of 373,399 in 2022. The greater Leicester urban area had a population of 559,017 in 2021,making it the 11th most populous in England,and the 13th most populous in the United Kingdom. A 2023 report ranked Leicester 16th out of the 50 largest UK cities on a range of economic measures,and the first of seven East Midlands cities.
Belgrave is an area,suburb,electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester,in the ceremonial county of Leicestershire,England. Belgrave is the location of and known for the National Space Centre,Space Park Leicester,the Golden Mile and Belgrave Hall.
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999,when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year,she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022,when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Leicester City Council is a unitary authority responsible for local government in the city of Leicester,England. It consists of 54 councillors,representing 22 wards in the city,overseen by a directly elected mayor. It is currently controlled by the Labour Party and has been led by mayor Sir Peter Soulsby since 2011. The council also appoints a ceremonial Lord Mayor who chairs council meetings;the directly elected mayor is termed the City Mayor to distinguish the post from the Lord Mayor.
Dame Glenis Willmott,is a retired British Labour Party politician who served as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands.
Susan Fennell is a Canadian politician,who served as the mayor of Brampton,Ontario from 2000 to 2014. She was also the founder and commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League. In 2021,the City of Brampton named the Susan Fennell Sportsplex after her.
Brent Charlesworth is a British local councillor who has served as Lord Mayor and Sheriff of Nottingham,and later as Mayor of Lincoln.
Claudia Naomi Webbe is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East from 2019 to 2024. Elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 2019,she sat as an Independent from 2021 until 2024.
Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner,Baroness Gardner of Parkes,was an Australian-born British dentist and Conservative member of the House of Lords,in which she served for over 40 years. She was the first Australian woman to have been elevated to the peerage,and was the senior life peer in the House of Lords at the time of her death.
Meral Hussein Ece,Baroness Hussein-Ece,is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016,under leader Tim Farron.
Christine Mary Crawley,Baroness Crawley FRSA is a British politician for the Labour Party.
Sport in Leicester,United Kingdom includes a variety of professional and amateur sports.
Helene Ruth Paula Ritchie is a former local body politician,registered psychologist and mediator,and a board member from Wellington,New Zealand. As Wellington's longest serving City Councillor of over 30 years,she led the Labour team to a majority position on the council. Later,she was the first female deputy mayor and chaired the Wellington Airport Authority and its successor for eight years.
Sood or Sud is an Indian surname.
A statue of suffragette Alice Hawkins is located in Green Dragon Square,Leicester,United Kingdom.
Alison Natalie Kay Lowe is a British Labour politician and deputy mayor of West Yorkshire for Policing and Crime. She was the first black woman Leeds city councillor,serving from 1990 to 2019,and has served as the chief executive of Touchstone,a mental health charity based in Leeds,from 2004 to 2021.
Dame Grace Tebbutt was a British local politician and a key figure in Sheffield politics in the mid-20th century. She was affiliated to the Labour Party,serving as the first female leader of Sheffield City Council,Sheffield's first female Alderman and the first female Labour Lord Mayor in 1949.
Kathleen Chambers CBE was a pioneer female politician who was the first woman to be Lord Mayor of Bradford holding that position in 1945–1946.
The 2023 Leicester City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect all 54 members of Leicester City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections,and the election for the directly elected Mayor of Leicester.
