David Stanley Borrow is a British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble from 1997 to 2010. He is currently a Labour Party councillor on Preston City Council and was appointed Mayor of Preston on 15 May 2019.
William Richard Fletcher-Vane,2nd Baron Inglewood,,usually called Richard Inglewood,is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Lord Inglewood is a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords,a barrister and a chartered surveyor. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004,and a junior minister in the UK government from 1995 to 1997.
Nigel Martin Evans is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ribble Valley in Lancashire since 1992. He was Joint Executive Secretary of the 1922 Committee from 2017 to 2019. He served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means,one of the Speaker's three deputies,from 2010 to 2013. He was elected as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in 2020.
Fylde has been a constituency in Lancashire which is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Mark Menzies,formerly of the Conservative Party,but now an Independent after the whip was withdrawn in April 2024,with allegations he misused campaign funds.
Preston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Sir Mark Hendrick,a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party.
Ribble Valley is a constituency in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1992 by Nigel Evans,a Conservative. Evans has served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means since January 2020;he previously served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means from 2010 to 2013.
South Ribble is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Katherine Fletcher,a Conservative.
Grimsargh is a village and civil parish in the City of Preston,Lancashire,England. located 6 miles (10 km) east of Preston.
Wyre and Preston North is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created in the most recent fifth periodic review of constituencies by the Boundary Commission for England,it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Preston North was a parliamentary constituency in Lancashire,which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created by the House of Commons Act 1949 for the 1950 general election by division of the former two-seat Preston constituency,and abolished for the 1983 general election. Some of the constituency's former territory was then incorporated within a new single-seat Preston constituency,and parts of Preston North became elements within Fylde and Ribble Valley.
Ronald Henry Atkins was a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Preston North for two terms:from 1966 until 1970,and from February 1974 until 1979. His career in British politics spanned nearly sixty years,from 1951 to 2010,including several decades as a councillor in local government,and nine as a Member of Parliament.
Great Eccleston is a village and civil parish in Lancashire,England situated on a coastal plain called the Fylde. The village lies to the south of the River Wyre and the A586 road,approximately 10 miles (16 km) upstream from Fleetwood. At the 2001 census,the parish had a population of 1,473,rising slightly to 1,486 at the 2011 census.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999,the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England,Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.
Garstang is an ancient market town and civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire,England. It is 10 miles (16 km) north of the city of Preston and the same distance south of Lancaster.
Preston is a city of Lancashire,England. The districts of Preston vary in size and shape,many of which reflect the districts developed from former villages and boroughs which now lie within the boundaries of the city of Preston. Districts of Preston have little administrative purpose:for local elections voters in each return either two,or three,councillors to Town Hall. For the purposes of national General elections,the parliamentary constituencies representing the city use the electoral districts as "building bricks"
The City of Preston,or simply Preston,is a local government district with city status in Lancashire,England. It lies on the north bank of the River Ribble and has a population of 151,582 (2022). The neighbouring districts are Ribble Valley,South Ribble,Fylde and Wyre.
Mary Josephine Robinson is a British Conservative politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheadle at the 2015 general election.
An election to Lancashire County Council took place on 6 May 2021,with counting on 8 May,as part of the 2021 United Kingdom local elections. All 84 councillors are elected from electoral divisions for a four-year term of office. The system of voting used is first-past-the-post. Elections are held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county,excepting Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities.
