Mark Meredith
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Mark Joseph Meredith, born 21 August 1965, Pyenest Street, Shelton in Stoke-on-Trent is the directly-elected mayor of Stoke-on-Trent in England. He was elected on 5 May 2005, for the Labour Party, and defeated incumbent independent Mike Wolfe.
A member of the Labour Party since 1982, Mark Meredith has held many posts at various levels of the Labour Party but has never held nor sought a public office before. A local businessman in the Stoke-on-Trent town of Hanley, since 1992 he was selected as the Labour candidate in December 2004, defeating four others to win the Labour nomination. In the Mayoral election of 5 May 2005, Mark Meredith polled ahead of the Conservative candidate Roger Ibbs (in second place) Mike Wolfe Independent, a BNP candidate and 3 other non-aligned independents.
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