Sheffield Hallam is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Olivia Blake of the Labour Party.
Sheffield Central is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Paul Blomfield,a member of the Labour Party.
Sheffield,Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Gill Furniss,a member of the Labour Party.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats is a liberal,federalist political party in Scotland,a part of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats. The party currently holds 4 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 4 of the 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons.
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 2003,reducing the number of seats by 3. This election was the first all-postal vote election held,dramatically improving overall turnout by 14.4% on the previous election to 43.9%. The Labour Party kept its overall majority and continued to run the council,albeit on a much slimmer majority. Previous to the boundary changes,sitting Hillsborough councillor Peter MacLoughlin defected from the Liberal Democrats to an Independent,choosing not to contest this election.
The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom,founded in 1988. Since the 1992 general election,with the exception of the 2015 general election,they have been the third-largest UK political party by the number of votes cast. They have 15 members of Parliament in the House of Commons,84 members of the House of Lords,four Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in the Welsh Senedd. The party has nearly 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' conference rules,the Lib Dems grant all members attending its Conference the right to speak in debates and 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. The party served as the junior party in a coalition government with the Conservative Party between 2010 and 2015;with Scottish Labour in the Scottish Executive from 1999 to 2007,and with Welsh Labour in the Welsh Government from 2000 to 2003 and from 2016 to 2021.
Catherine Zena Bearder is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament between 2 July 2014 and 12 November 2019. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 4 June 2009 to 31 January 2020.
Paul James Scriven,Baron Scriven is a Liberal Democrat politician and former Leader of Sheffield City Council (2008–11),who was once described as Nick Clegg's "closest ally in local government".
Rebecca Elizabeth Taylor is a British health researcher and Liberal Democrat politician,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2012 to 2014.
The 2014 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 22 May 2014,coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland. In total,73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England,Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR,while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).
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 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results were announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020,and was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
On 5 May 2016,a by-election was held in the UK Parliamentary constituency of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in South Yorkshire. It was caused by the death of the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Harry Harpham on 4 February 2016. Harpham had been the Labour Party MP for the seat since the 2015 general election. The by-election took place on the same day as local elections in the United Kingdom.
Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2016,alongside nationwide local elections. All 84 seats were up for election,3 per ward,after several electoral boundaries were changed. Labour,the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party contested all 84 seats. The Conservatives fielded 55 candidates,UKIP 43,TUSC 23 and Yorkshire First 1. There was also 1 independent candidate. Voters in the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary constituency also elected Gill Furniss MP,in a by-election triggered by the death of her husband Harry Harpham MP.
The 2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the announcement of the resignation of Vince Cable as leader on 24 May 2019,after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. The two candidates to succeed Cable were Ed Davey and Jo Swinson.
Irina Stephanie von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau is a British politician,who was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
The 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held in August 2020,after Jo Swinson,the previous leader of the Liberal Democrats,lost her seat in the 2019 general election. It was initially set to be held in July 2020,but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was delayed by six weeks,having been at first postponed until May 2021.
Andy D'Agorne is a Green politician,who has represented Fishergate Ward for the Green Party of England and Wales since being elected as one of the first Green councillors for York,England in 2003. After the 2019 City of York Council election,the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party announced that they had agreed to run City of York Council in a new 'progressive partnership' coalition,with Green Group leader D'Agorne assuming the role of Deputy Leader of the Council and Executive Member for Transport while Liberal Democrat leader Keith Aspden was elected as Leader of the council.
