The Liberal Party is a liberal political party in the United Kingdom that was founded in 1989 as a continuation of the original Liberal Party by members who opposed its merger with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to form the Liberal Democrats. The party holds five local council seats. The party promotes a hybrid of both classical and social liberal tendencies.
Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2022. Full council meetings are generally held at Westminster Council House,also known as Marylebone Town Hall,and the council has its main offices at Westminster City Hall on Victoria Street.
Wimbledon is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since 2005,the seat has been held by Stephen Hammond of the Conservative Party.
Gareth Jones OBE is a Welsh politician. He was a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Conwy from 1999 until 2003 when he lost by 72 votes. He sought a successful re-election to the newly created Aberconwy constituency in 2007 before retiring in 2011. He was also Leader of Conwy County Borough Council,from 2017 to 2019,and a Llandudno town councillor representing the Craig-y-Don ward. He was formerly a member of Plaid Cymru,but left in 2017 after attempting to form a council administration in Conwy containing Welsh Conservatives,which the national party would not allow. He ran an independent administration of the council until 2019,when the Conservatives took control of the council.
The Welsh Conservatives is the branch of the United Kingdom Conservative Party that operates in Wales. At Westminster elections,it is the second-most popular political party in Wales,having obtained the second-largest share of the vote at every general election since 1931. In Senedd elections,the Conservatives are currently the second-most supported party but have at times been third. They hold 14 of the 40 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament,and 16 of the 60 seats in the Senedd.
Andrew Boff is a British politician who has been Chair of the London Assembly since 2023,and previously from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as a London-wide Assembly Member (AM) since the 2008 election. Boff served as Leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly from June 2012 to October 2015.
Camden London Borough Council,also known as Camden Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2010. The council meets at Camden Town Hall and has its main offices at 5 Pancras Square.
Merton London Borough Council,which styles itself Merton Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Merton in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2014. The council is based at Merton Civic Centre in Morden.
The 2008 Carlisle City Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Carlisle District Council in Cumbria,England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council,also known as Richmond upon Thames Council,LBRUT or Richmond Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Liberal Democrat majority control since 2018. Although the borough is named after Richmond,the council meets at York House in Twickenham,and has its main offices in the adjoining Civic Centre.
On 29 November 2012,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Croydon North in the London Borough of Croydon. The by-election was caused by the death of its Member of Parliament Malcolm Wicks. It took place on the same day as by-elections in Middlesbrough and Rotherham. The by-election was won by Steve Reed of the Labour Party.
Stephen Knight is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom who has previously been a member of the London Assembly for the Liberal Democrats.
The 2021 London Assembly election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the members of the London Assembly,alongside the 2021 London mayoral election. The mayoral and Assembly elections were originally to be held on 7 May 2020,but on 13 March 2020 it was announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the sixth election since the Assembly was established in 2000. Due to the previous term being extended to 5 years,those elected would only serve a three-year term until the next election in 2024. The election was held on the same day in 2021 as other elections in the UK;the UK local elections,Scottish Parliament election,and Welsh Senedd election.
Keith Anthony Prince is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of the London Assembly for Havering and Redbridge since 2016. Prince is also a Councillor in the London Borough of Havering for the Squirrels Heath Ward,a position he has held since 2022;he also serves as Leader of the Conservative Group on Havering Council.
In the politics of England,a Liberal Democrat–Green Party alliance is an ad-hoc arrangement between candidates and elected representatives from the Liberal Democrats and Green Party to form a joint group on elected bodies or to field joint lists or candidates in elections.
The 2022 Bromley London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 58 members of Bromley London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
In the 2022 Croydon London Borough Council election,on 5 May 2022,all 70 members of Croydon London Borough Council,and the Mayor of Croydon,were up for election. The elections took place alongside the local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. Jason Perry of the Conservative Party narrowly won the mayoral election.
The 2022 Hounslow London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 62 members of Hounslow London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
The 2022 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 54 members of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday,4 July 2024. 32 seats will be up for election in Wales as the general election will occur after the recently completed boundary review took effect.
