Lynda Ellen Waltho (born May 22, 1960, London) is the LabourMP for Stourbridge. She was elected at the 2005 general election, after Debra Shipley stepped down due to ill-health just days before the election was called. May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Stourbridge is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ... Debra Ann Shipley (born 22 June 1957) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Mrs Waltho was born in London and educated at Keele University. She is married with two children and her husband Steve is a former Labour member of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Mrs Waltho won this seat with a slim majority of just 407 over Conservative candidate, Diana Coad, reduced from 3812 at the 2001 general election. The United Kingdom general election of 7 June 2001 was dubbed as the quiet landslide by the media. ...
External links
The Labour Party - Lynda Waltho MP official biography
Waltho was born in London and educated at Keele University.
Waltho won the seat with a slim majority of just 407 over Conservative candidate, Diana Coad, reduced from 3812 at the 2001 general election.In November 2005, she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Hanson MP, Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office.