Stoke-on-Trent South is a constituency created in 1950,and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Jack Brereton,a Conservative. The local electorate returned a Labour MP in every election until 2017,when 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.
Local authority areas in England typically have an executive leader and a cabinet selected from the local council,similar to how the national prime minister and cabinet are selected from Parliament. In contrast,residents of some areas,or groups of areas known as combined authorities,directly elect the executive mayors of their local government.
The city of Bristol,England,is a unitary authority,represented by four MPs representing seats wholly within the city boundaries. As well as these,Filton and Bradley Stoke covers the northern urban fringe in South Gloucestershire and the north eastern urban fringe is in the Kingswood constituency. The overall trend of both local and national representation became left of centre during the latter 20th century,but there was a shift to the right in the 2010 general election. The city has a tradition of local activism,with environmental issues and sustainable transport being prominent issues in the city.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority of Stoke-on-Trent,Staffordshire,England. As a unitary authority,it has the combined powers of a county council and district council and is administratively separate from the rest of Staffordshire.
The 2009 United Kingdom local elections were elections held to all 27 County Councils,three existing Unitary Authorities and five new Unitary Authorities,all in England,on 4 June 2009. The elections were due to be held on 7 May 2009,but were delayed in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament.
The 2010 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 6 May 2010,concurrently with the 2010 general election. Direct elections were held to all 32 London boroughs,all 36 metropolitan boroughs,76 second-tier district authorities,20 unitary authorities and various Mayoral posts,all in England. For those authorities elected "all out" these were the first elections since 2006. The results provided some comfort to the Labour Party,losing the general election on the same day,as it was the first time Conservative councillor numbers declined since 1996.
The 2011 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Great Yarmouth Borough Council in Norfolk,England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. At the same time as the election,the introduction of a directly elected mayor in Great Yarmouth was rejected in a referendum.
A series of mayoral referendums were held on 3 May 2012 in England's 11 largest cities to determine whether to introduce directly elected mayors to provide political leadership,replacing their current council leaders,who are elected by the local council.
The Mayor of Mansfield is the directly elected executive mayor of the district of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire,England. A new appointment was created from 2002 following moves made by a Mansfield-based businessman to change the governance of Mansfield after a public referendum.
The Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent was an executive mayoralty that existed from 2002 to 2009,when the executive of Stoke-on-Trent City Council was a directly elected mayor. The authority was unique in being the only authority in England with an elected mayor and council manager. The first mayor was Mike Wolfe,a former manager of the Citizen's Advice Bureau in the city. He had stood as an independent,but was defeated by Mark Meredith representing the Labour Party in 2005. A referendum was held on 24 October 2008. Residents voted in favour of a return to the council leader and cabinet system. There was controversy when it was revealed three years later that plans to close a swimming pool in the city had been agreed privately by the former mayor.
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.
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 former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,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 has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stoke-on-Trent South constituency since the 2017 general election. A member of the Conservative Party,he is a former councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
The 2021 Bristol City Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. It coincided with nationwide local elections. Voters in the city also voted for the mayor of Bristol,the mayor of West of England and for Avon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020,but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2022 London local elections took place on 5 May 2022,as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections. All London borough councillor seats were up for election. Mayoral elections took place in Hackney,Lewisham,Newham and Tower Hamlets,with Croydon electing a mayor for the first time following a local referendum in October 2021.
In the 2022 Croydon London Borough Council election,on 5 May 2022,all 70 members of Croydon London Borough Council,and the Mayor of Croydon,were up for election. The elections took place alongside the local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. Jason Perry of the Conservative Party narrowly won the mayoral election.
The 2022 Newham London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 66 members of Newham London Borough Council were elected. The election took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
The 2022 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 45 members of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
