Lincolnshire Independents | |
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| Leader | Marianne Overton |
| Founded | 18 July 2008 |
| Ideology | Regionalism |
| Lincolnshire County Council | 1 / 70 |
| House of Commons (Lincolnshire Seats) | 0 / 7 |
| North Kesteven District Council | 15 / 43 |
| West Lindsey District Council | 2 / 36 |
| South Kesteven | 1 / 56 |
| East Lindsey District Council | 8 / 55 |
| Website | |
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Lincolnshire Independents is a British political party based in the county of Lincolnshire. They were founded in July 2008. [1] [2] [3]
At the 2009 election, Lincolnshire Independents stood 19 candidates for Lincolnshire County Council of whom four were elected.
Four years later, they increased their representation to nine seats and polled 10.4% of the votes cast county-wide. [4]
In the 2016 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections the party stood a candidate for the Lincolnshire area, attaining 18,497 votes or approximately 16.52% of the vote. [5]
At the 2017 county council election the party lost all but one of their seats on Lincolnshire County Council. Party leader Marianne Overton MBE won the Bassingham & Welbourn division.
Marianne Overton has been the Independent Group leader and a vice-chair on the Local Government Association since 2011. [6]
At the 2010 general election, party leader Marianne Overton stood for Sleaford & North Hykeham. [7] [8] and retained her deposit by gaining more than 5% of the vote: She came fourth with 3,806 votes (6.4%). [9] [10] Campaign director Mark Horn, a Conservative Party member for 23 years who resigned as a county councillor in 2008, [11] stood in Grantham and Stamford, [12] receiving 929 votes (1.8%). In Louth and Horncastle, Daniel Simpson gained 576 votes (1.1%). [13]
At the 2015 general election, Overton stood again in Sleaford & North Hykeham, coming fifth with 3,233 votes (5.2%). Jan Hansen stood in Grantham and Stamford, receiving 724 votes (1.3%) and Simpson stood again in Louth and Horncastle, polling 659 votes (1.3%). Additionally, Chris Darcel stood in Gainsborough, where he polled 505 votes (1%), and Helen Powell stood in Lincoln, where she received 286 votes (0.6%).
Overton stood in Sleaford and North Hykeham for a third time in the December 2016 by-election. She came fifth, with 2,892 votes (8.8%).
East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. Its council is based in Horncastle and the largest town is Skegness. Other towns include Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Coningsby, Louth, Mablethorpe, Spilsby, Sutton on Sea, Wainfleet All Saints, Wragby and Woodhall Spa. The district also covers a large rural area, including many smaller settlements.
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Sir Robert Pattinson, JP, DL was a British Liberal politician and businessman. Pattinson joined his family's railway contracting firm after finishing school and was quickly appointed to senior positions. In 1900, he became chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and four years later joined Kesteven County Council, eventually becoming an alderman and serving as its chairman for 20 years between 1934 and his death in 1954. He chaired the Sleaford Liberal Association (1900–18) and was nominated as the party's representative for Sleaford shortly before World War I broke out. He contested Grantham unsuccessfully in 1918, but was returned for the seat in 1922, serving until he was defeated in the following year's general election. Several other unsuccessful attempts at a parliamentary career followed. He chaired several bodies responsible for maintaining Lincolnshire's waterways, served as a magistrate for Kesteven and Lindsey and sat as Lincolnshire's High Sheriff in 1941. Knighted in 1934, Pattinson died aged 82 in 1954 after several years of illness.
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