Talk:Hull City Council
This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hull City Council article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Political composition[edit]
What is the political composition of hull city council?, i believe this should be added to the article.
User:Gr8opinionater Thursday 26th June 2008 17:12 (GMT)
I have added the political composition of the council.
User:Gr8opinionater Thursday 26th June 2008 18:58 (GMT)
Article title[edit]
Surely the title of the article should be Kingston upon Hull City Council, the formal name of the council —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.239.105 (talk) 19:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
- The council use the short form of Hull City Council and we follow using the more popular name rather than the formal name as per WP:NAME. Keith D (talk) 12:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion[edit]
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:
You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:51, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Pre-1929 political composition[edit]
I have just seen an edit The ed17 removing the political composition history summary prior to 1929. They claim the date in the original edit (1440) 'goes back before current UK political parties existed'.
Party politics in local elections was not formally established in England and Wales until the interwar period. In Hull, prior to 1929, no political party held a majority because only Labour Party and Independent Labour Party candidates stood for political parties. This does not mean councillors were independent. The vast majority going back to 1882 at least were members of local Liberal and Conservative associations. Wazzok1 (talk) 18:42, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
- If 1440 is an inappropriate start point, then 1929 is even worse as current political parties certainly existed at that stage. Of the major ones: Labour was formed in 1900; the Conservative Party in 1834; the Liberal Party in 1859.
- The first party political councillor in Hull was elected in 1893. The first formal Conservative councillor was elected in 1922 and the first Liberal in 1960.
- Where should the line be drawn? Wazzok1 (talk) 18:47, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
- Start-Class organization articles
- Low-importance organization articles
- WikiProject Organizations articles
- Start-Class Politics of the United Kingdom articles
- Low-importance Politics of the United Kingdom articles
- Start-Class Yorkshire articles
- Low-importance Yorkshire articles
- WikiProject Yorkshire articles