David William St John Heath is a British optometrist and Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerton and Frome from 1997 to 2015. He served as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food from September 2012 to October 2013 in the Cameron–Clegg coalition government.
Somerton and Frome was a constituency in Somerset represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
Redcar is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Anna Turley,of the Labour and Co-operative parties. She previously represented the constituency between 2015 and 2019,when she was defeated by Conservative Jacob Young.
Chesham and Amersham is a parliamentary constituency in Buckinghamshire,South East England,represented in the House of Commons by Sarah Green,a Liberal Democrat elected at a 2021 by-election.
Yeovil is a constituency in Somerset created in 1918 and represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since the 2024 General Election,the constituency has been represented by Liberal Democrat MP Adam Dance.
Somerset Council,known until 2023 as Somerset County Council,is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England. Since 2023 it has been a unitary authority,being a county council which also performs the functions of a district council. The non-metropolitan county of Somerset is smaller than the ceremonial county,which additionally includes Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset.
East Somerset was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Somerset,represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1832 and 1918.
The region of South West England is divided into 58 parliamentary constituencies,which are made up of 16 borough constituencies and 42 county constituencies. Since the general election of July 2024,24 are represented by Labour MPs,22 by Liberal Democrat MPs,11 by Conservative MPs,and 1 by a Green MP.
The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom,founded in 1988. The current leader of the party is Ed Davey. They are the third-largest party in the United Kingdom,with 72 members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons. They have 78 members of the House of Lords,four members of the Scottish Parliament,one member in the Welsh Senedd,and more than 3,000 local council seats. The party holds a twice-per-year Liberal Democrat Conference,at which party policy is formulated. In contrast to its main opponents' rules,the Liberal Democrats grant all members attending its Conference the right to vote on party policy,under a one member,one vote system. The party also allows its members to vote online for its policies and in the election of a new leader.
Tessa Jane Munt (née Vasey) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Wells and Mendip Hills in Somerset,having previously been elected as the MP for Wells from 2010 to 2015 and serving as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for Business,Innovation and Skills,Vince Cable. As a councillor on Somerset Council,she was the executive member for Children,Families and Education from 2022 until 2023.
David John Warburton is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerton and Frome from 2015 until his resignation in 2023. On his election in the 2015 general election he represented the Conservative Party,but was suspended from the party in April 2022 pending the outcome of an Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) investigation into allegations,eventually withdrawn and dismissed,of harassment and class A drug use. Prior to entering politics,he was the founder,chief executive and chairman of Pitch Entertainment Group. On 17 June 2023,Warburton announced his resignation as an MP,triggering a by-election.
Sarah Jane Olney is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park since 2019,previously holding the seat from 2016 to 2017. Olney has served as the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for the Treasury from July 2022 to 2024. And for business and industrial strategy from January 2020 to 2024,she currently serves as Spokesperon for the Cabinet Office since September 2024.
A by-election was held in the United Kingdom Parliament constituency of Chesham and Amersham on 17 June 2021,following the death of the sitting member,Dame Cheryl Gillan,on 4 April 2021. Gillan had served as MP for the constituency since 1992. The by-election was the third to the 58th Parliament,which was elected in 2019.
Sarah Louise Green is a British businesswoman and Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chesham and Amersham since 2021.
Glastonbury and Somerton is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,it was first contested at the 2024 general election.
Steven Tuckwell is a British politician who became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 2023-2024,in which he succeeded Boris Johnson,the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A member of the Conservative Party,he has also sat on Hillingdon Borough Council since 2018.
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Somerton and Frome took place on 20 July 2023,following the resignation of the incumbent MP David Warburton on 17 June.
