Frank Gordon Dobson was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015,he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999,and was official Labour Party candidate for Mayor of London in 2000,though finishing third in the election behind Conservative Steven Norris and the winner,Labour-turned-Independent Ken Livingstone. Dobson stood down at the 2015 general election.
Mark Berry,better known as Bez,is an English percussionist,dancer,DJ and media personality. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Happy Mondays and Black Grape.
Hazel Anne Blears is a former British Labour Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles,previously Salford,from 1997 to 2015.
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd is a British Labour Party politician who has discontinuously served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983,currently as the MP for Rochdale since 2017. He was MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997 and Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012. He then became Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017,and interim Mayor of Greater Manchester between 2015 and 2017. Lloyd served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2018 and 2020,resigning to recover from his illness of COVID-19. He was also Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland between 2019 and 2020.
David Anthony Gerald Sumberg is a British politician,and former Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region for the Conservative Party. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999 and stood down in 2009. Before this he was the Member of Parliament for Bury South,north of Manchester,from 1983 to 1997 when he lost in the Labour landslide to Ivan Lewis.
Salford was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The borough constituency dated from 1997 and was abolished in 2010,replaced by Salford and Eccles.
Salford City Council elections are generally held three years out of every four,with a third of the council being elected each time. Salford City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Salford in Greater Manchester,England. Since the last boundary changes in 2020,60 councillors have been elected from 20 wards.
Barton upon Irwell is a suburb of the City of Salford,Greater Manchester,England,with a population of 12,462 in 2014.
David Joseph Henry is a writer,human rights activist and former parliamentary candidate from Manchester,England. He is a former pupil of Oakwood High School in Chorlton.
Blackley and Broughton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Graham Stringer. He was first elected in 1997 for the former Manchester Blackley and prior to this was Leader of Manchester City Council. The constituency covers north Manchester and east Salford.
Salford and Eccles is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rebecca Long-Bailey,a member of the Labour Party.
Worsley and Eccles South is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat is currently held by Barbara Keeley MP of the Labour Party. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Mohammed Afzal Khan,is a Pakistani born British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Gorton since 2017.
The Mayor of Salford is a directly elected post created in 2012 for the City of Salford in Greater Manchester. The position is different from the long-existing and largely ceremonial,annually appointed ceremonial mayor of Salford.
The Manchester Central by-election was a by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Manchester Central held on Thursday 15 November 2012.
Langworthy is an area of Salford,Greater Manchester. Weaste lies to the west of Langworthy and Pendleton to the east. In 2001 the population of Langworthy was 7,104,increasing to 12,935 at the 2011 Census. It was named after Edward Ryley Langworthy,a former mayor of Salford.
Rebecca Roseanne Long-Bailey,is a British politician and former solicitor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles since 2015. A member of the Labour Party,Long-Bailey served in the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017,Shadow Secretary of State for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2017 to 2020 and Shadow Secretary of State for Education in 2020.
Swinton South (ward) is an electoral ward of Salford,England. It is represented in Westminster by Rebecca Long-Bailey MP for Salford and Eccles. A profile of the ward conducted by Salford City Council in 2014 recorded a population of 11,458.
Pendlebury is an electoral ward of Salford,England. It is represented in Westminster by Rebecca Long-Bailey MP for Salford and Eccles. A profile of the ward conducted by Salford City Council in 2014 recorded a population of 13,434.
