Hertfordshire is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west,Cambridgeshire to the north-east,Essex to the east,Greater London to the south and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Watford,and the county town is Hertford.
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams,Baroness Williams of Crosby,was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP),she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979. She was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981 and,at the time of her retirement from politics,was a Liberal Democrat.
Michael Hugh Meacher was a British politician who served as a government minister under Harold Wilson,James Callaghan and Tony Blair. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton,previously Oldham West,from 1970 until his death in 2015.
St Albans is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Daisy Cooper,a Liberal Democrat.
Hemel Hempstead is a constituency in Hertfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system. Since 2005,it has been represented by Mike Penning,a member of the Conservative Party.
Watford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Conservative Party MP Dean Russell.
Sir Michael Alan Penning is a British Conservative Party politician,who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemel Hempstead since 2005.
Hugh Kerr is a Scottish politician and a former lecturer in social policy at the Polytechnic of North London. He was elected a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in June 1994 to represent the euro-constituency of Essex West &Hertfordshire East until 1999.
Elaine Kildare Murray is a retired Scottish Labour politician. She was leader of Dumfries and Galloway Council for the 2017–2022 term. She was also the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dumfries from 1999 to 2011,and then for Dumfriesshire from 2011 to 2016. At the 1999,2003 and 2007 elections,Murray increased her percentage share of the vote. She was Shadow Minister for the Environment in the Scottish Parliament. She lost her seat in 2016.
Robert Brannock Jones was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Hertfordshire for its 14-year existence,from its creation in 1983 until it was abolished in 1997. He served as Minister of State for Construction,Planning and Energy Efficiency in the Department of the Environment from 1994 to 1997.
Reginald Moss was a British schoolteacher and Labour politician. After fighting an energetic campaign in Hemel Hempstead in the 1950 general election,he was elected as the first Member of Parliament for Meriden in 1955. As a backbencher he had a low profile but managed some achievements in House of Commons committees. Moss lost the highly marginal constituency after a single term and was forced to return to his previous career. He died many years later in obscurity.
Peter George Beazley was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician who worked for Imperial Chemical Industries for over thirty years. He went on to serve for fifteen years as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Sir Thomas Frederick Halsey,1st Baronet,was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1906.
The Hertfordshire County Football Association,also simply known as Hertfordshire FA,is the governing body of football in the county of Hertfordshire,England. The Hertfordshire FA was founded accidentally in 1885 after the existing teams agreed to hold a meeting to discuss their position,and ended up affiliating.
The Thomas Alleyne Academy is an Academy in Stevenage,Hertfordshire,England. It was founded in 1558,when the original school was set up from the will of Thomas Alleyne. It become an Academy in 2013.
Professor Richard Sean Grayson is a British historian. He is currently the Head of School of Education,Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes University.
An election to Hertfordshire County Council took place on 2 May 2013,as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 77 electoral divisions elected one county councilor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009.
Gordon Edgar Masters is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1974 to 1989,representing West Province. He was a minister in the governments of Sir Charles Court and Ray O'Connor.
Elections to Hertfordshire County Council took place on 6 May 2021 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. All 78 seats to the council were elected.
