WHO'S WHO
Mark Hunter MP
Lib Dem majority: 3,657 (10%)
Constituency: Cheadle
Region: North West
PA Number: 137
Address:
Constituency Office
3 Gillbent Road
Cheadle Hulme
SK8 7LE
Tel: 0161 486 1359
Email: hunterm@parliament.uk
Web: http://www.cheadle-libdems.org.uk/
Occupation: MP
Council Experience: Leader of Stockport Council until 2005
Parliamentary Experience: 2008- DCLG Spokesperson, 2007- Shadow Foreign Affairs spokesperson; 2006-07 Shadow Home Affairs spokesperson, 2005-6 Shadow ODPM (Local Government etc) spokesperson
Marital status/children: Married, two teenage children
Seat:Cheadle |
Liberal Democrats19,593 (52%) |
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Turnout:37,567 (55%) |
Conservative15,936 (42%) |
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Swing0.6% Con to Lib Dem |
Labour1,739 (5%) |
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Other299 (1%) |
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Hunter entered Parliament at his third attempt at a by-election on 14th
July 2005 to succeed the former Lib Dem MP Patsy Calton, who died
shortly after the general election in May 2005. He is a spokesman on Communities
and Local Government in the Commons and has been reselected to stand here
at the next general election.
Mark was educated at Audenshaw Grammar School for Boys and worked as a marketing executive for the Guardian Media Group.
He was the Liberal candidate in Ashton under Lyne in 1987 and the Liberal Democrat candidate in Stockport in the 2001. He was first elected to Stockport Borough Council in 1996, and served as Chair of Education and Executive Member for Regeneration; in 2002 he became Leader of the Council. Mark has played a leading role in moving forward the vital long awaited A555 link road. Mark has also helped to get more police on patrol locally and to clean up our local streets. Under Mark's leadership, the Council has become the leading Metropolitan Council for recycling in the country. New measures to protect our heritage and to tackle the problems of infill development have also been introduced.
Mark became a member of the Shadow Foreign Affairs team in January 2007; in 2006 he was a member of the Shadow Home Affairs team and in 2005 a member of the Shadow ODPM (Local Government etc) team; he is also a member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee. Mark currently serves as a Spokesperson on Communities and Local Government after Nick Clegg became leader of the Liberal Democrats at the end of 2007.
