A by-election was held for the United Kingdom Parliament seat of Leicester South on 15 July 2004. It was triggered by the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Jim Marshall,who died on 27 May 2004,shortly before the local and European elections in June. The by-election was won by Parmjit Singh Gill of the Liberal Democrats,over-turning a Labour majority of 13,243 votes at the 2001 general election.
Sir Peter Alfred Soulsby is a British Labour Party politician serving as Mayor of Leicester since 2011. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South from 2005 until he resigned his seat in April 2011,in order to contest the new post of mayor. He served as Leader of Leicester City Council from 1981 to 1994 and from 1996 to 1999.
Leicester South is a constituency,recreated in 1974,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2011 by Jonathan Ashworth of the Labour Co-op Party. A previous version of the seat existed between 1918 and 1950. Except for a 2004 by-election when it was won by the Liberal Democrats,Leicester South has been held by the Labour Party since 1987.
North West Leicestershire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Andrew Bridgen. Bridgen originally served as a Conservative and now serves as an Independent following his suspension in January 2023 and subsequent expulsion. He joined the Reclaim Party in May 2023,then left Reclaim and became an Independent again the following December.
Leicester East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Claudia Webbe,who was elected as a Labour MP,but now sits as an Independent due to her suspension and subsequent expulsion from the party in November 2021 after she was convicted of harassment.
East Midlands was a constituency of the European Parliament in the United Kingdom,established in 1999 with six members to replace single-member constituencies. Between 2009 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020 it returned five MEPs,elected using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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.
Rushey Mead is an area,suburb,electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester,England. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 15,962. It comprises the northern Leicester suburb of Rushey Mead in its entirety,as well as a part of the neighbouring area,suburb and electoral ward of Belgrave and historical parts of neighbouring Northfields and Thurmaston.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a political party in the United Kingdom established in 1990. Ideologically,the SDP combines social conservatism with centre-left economic policy. It supports a social market economy alongside Euroscepticism. Founded by Jack Holmes,it has been led by William Clouston since 2018.
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.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Clive Robert Loader,is a British politician and retired senior Royal Air Force officer. He was the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 until 2016. He served in the RAF from 1972 to 2009 and was the first Commander-in-Chief Air Command.
Claudia Naomi Webbe is a British politician who is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East. Elected to Parliament for Labour in the 2019 general election,she currently sits as an independent.
Jonathan Bullock is an English politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands constituency until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He was third on the UKIP list for that constituency in the 2014 European election,and became an MEP on 1 August 2017,succeeding Roger Helmer. He was re-elected in 2019 for the Brexit Party.
On 5 May 2011,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Leicester South. It was prompted by the resignation of Sir Peter Soulsby of the Labour Party,who stood down from Parliament to contest the election for Mayor of Leicester. Soulsby was appointed Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on 1 April 2011,and the writ for a new election was issued on 5 April. The election was won by Labour Party candidate Jon Ashworth.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British politician who has served as Shadow Paymaster General since September 2023. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South since 2011.
The 2012 police and crime commissioner elections were polls held in most police areas in England and Wales on Thursday 15 November. The direct election of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords. The government considers the elected commissioners to have a stronger mandate than the "unelected and invisible police authorities that they replace". The elections took place alongside by-elections for the House of Commons in Cardiff South and Penarth,Corby and Manchester Central,and a mayoral election in Bristol.
Rupert Oliver Matthews is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2021. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands from June 2017 until his term ended on 1 July 2019,and has authored books on the paranormal.
Rohit K. Dasgupta is an academic in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow and a British Labour Party politician. Prior to this he was based at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University. In 2018 he was elected Councillor in the London Borough of Newham for the Canning Town South Ward. He was re-elected for the same ward again in 2022 He contested the Parliamentary seat of East Hampshire for the Labour Party in 2017,coming second with an increase of 7% vote share. He is also Secretary of the Newham Branch of the Fabian Society. In 2019 he was selected as an MEP candidate for the South East region but failed to get elected. Dasgupta is also a member of Labour's National Policy Forum and sits on the Work,Pensions and Equality Policy Commission.
Nigel Carl Porter is a Liberal Democrat politician in the City of Leicester. He served as the Leader of the Opposition on the Leicester City Council from 2019 to 2023,and has been a ward councillor for Aylestone since 2004.
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.
