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Darren Jones was born on 13 November 1986 in Bristol, and grew up in Lawrence Weston.He attended Portway Community School in Shirehampton, a state comprehensive, and has spoken about his experiences of growing up in poverty.
Bristol City Hall.. The city of Bristol, England, is a unitary authority, represented by four MPs representing seats wholly within the city boundaries.The overall trend of both local and national representation became left of centre during the latter 20th century.
Bristol Central is a parliamentary constituency located within the City of Bristol in South West England. [2] [3] It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 2024, it has been represented by Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party.
Bristol was a two-member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707–1800), and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885.
Bristol North West has traditionally been a Conservative–Labour swing seat, having elected five Conservative Party and five Labour Party Members of Parliament since its creation in 1950. The 2017 win was a surprise to the successful Labour candidate Darren Jones . [ 5 ]
The seat has elected Labour MPs at every election since 1935, the only seat in the south of England outside Greater London with such a record. The closest result, giving a marginal majority, was the 1987 election where Dawn Primarolo won a majority of 2.7% of the vote — in that election the Social Democratic Party, a 'moderate' breakaway party from the Labour Party, [n 3] won 19.6% of the vote.
Karin Marguerite Smyth was born on 8 September 1964 in London. [4] [5] Her parents had emigrated from Ireland to England in the 1950s.Smyth has three children. Smyth was educated at Bishopshalt School, Uxbridge College, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1988) where she was President of the Union of UEA Students, and the University of Bath (MBA, 1995). [6]
Boundaries were slightly altered in 1918 and Bristol East was abolished in a comprehensive review of the local seats for the 1950 general election. Political history. The most powerful representative of Bristol East in Parliament and H.M. Government was Sir Stafford Cripps, MP (Lab) 1931–1950, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947 to ...