Paignton is a seaside town on the coast of Tor Bay in Devon,England. Together with Torquay and Brixham it forms the borough of Torbay which was created in 1968. The Torbay area is a holiday destination known as the English Riviera. Paignton has origins as a Celtic settlement and was first mentioned in 1086. It grew as a small fishing village and a new harbour was built in 1847. A railway line was opened to passengers in 1859 creating links to Torquay and London. As its population increased,it merged with the villages of Goodrington and Preston. Paignton is around 25 miles (40 km) north east of Plymouth and 20 miles (32 km) south of Exeter.
Adrian Mark Sanders is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torbay in Devon from 1997 until his defeat in the 2015 general election.
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the Conservative Party until 2019.
Totnes is a parliamentary constituency in Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Anthony Mangnall,a Conservative. Mangnall defeated incumbent Sarah Wollaston who had originally been elected as a Conservative but defected to the Liberal Democrats earlier that year.
The 2005 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 5 May 2005,with various councils and local government seats being contested in England and Northern Ireland,and a local referendum taking place on the Isle of Wight on the issue of a directly elected mayor. These local elections were held in conjunction with the 2005 general election across the entire United Kingdom.
The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010,with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons. The election took place in 650 constituencies across the United Kingdom under the first-past-the-post system.
The 2007 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 3 May 2007. These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland. There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same day. There were no local government elections in Northern Ireland. Just over half of English councils and almost all the Scottish councils began the counts on Friday,rather than Thursday night,because of more complex arrangements regarding postal votes.
The Northern Ireland Conservatives is a section of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party that operates in Northern Ireland. The party won 0.03% of the vote in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election and 0.7% of the vote in the 2019 United Kingdom General election in Northern Ireland.
Elections to Hartlepool Borough Council in the ceremonial county of County Durham in England were held on 2 May 2002. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. At the same time an election took place for a directly elected mayor,which was won by independent candidate Stuart Drummond.
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council in east London,England. The first election for this position occurred on 21 October 2010,taking on the executive function of the borough council. The position is different from the previous largely ceremonial,annually appointed mayors of Tower Hamlets,who became known as the 'Chair of Council' after the first election and are now known as the 'Speaker of Council'. The second election was held on 22 May 2014,the same day as the Tower Hamlets Council election,other United Kingdom local elections,and European Parliament elections,but the election result was declared void by the election court. A by-election was held on 11 June 2015.
The 2008 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire,England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control.
The Totnes Conservative Party parliamentary primary of 2009 was the 1st open primary election used to select the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the constituency of Totnes. The election was held on Tuesday 4 August 2009 under the first-past-the-post system. The primary was triggered by Anthony Steen's announcement that he would not stand at the next election. This came just days after details of Steen's expenses claims were published in The Daily Telegraph.
Torbay Council is the local authority for Torbay,a unitary authority with borough status in the ceremonial county of Devon,England. The council is based in Torquay.
The Yorkshire Party is a regionalist political party in Yorkshire,a historic county of England. The party,which was founded in 2014,campaigns for the establishment of a devolved Yorkshire Parliament within the United Kingdom,with powers over education,environment,transportation and housing.
The 2000 Colchester Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Colchester Borough Council in Essex,England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
On 9 October 2014,a by-election was held for the UK parliamentary constituency of Clacton in Essex,England. The by-election was triggered by the Conservative MP for Clacton,Douglas Carswell,defecting to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and subsequently resigning his seat to seek re-election as its candidate.
Kevin John Foster is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Torbay since 2015. He served as Minister of State for Transport from September 2022 until October 2022. Foster served under Home Secretary Priti Patel as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safe and Legal Migration from 2019 until September 2022.
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.
The 2022 Vale of Glamorgan Council election took place as of 5 May 2022 to elect 54 members across 24 wards to Vale of Glamorgan Council. On the same day,elections were held to the other 21 local authorities and to community councils in Wales as part of the 2022 Welsh local elections. The previous Vale of Glamorgan all-council election took place in May 2017 and future elections will take place every five years.
The 2023 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday,4 May 2023 in England and on Thursday 18 May 2023 in Northern Ireland. These included district councils,unitary authorities,and directly elected mayors in England,and included all local councils in Northern Ireland. Notably,these elections were the first to be held under the Elections Act 2022,a new voter identification law that is controversial,meaning voters were required to show photo ID when attending a polling station.
