Mansfield Independent Forum
| Tony Egginton | |
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| Mayor of Mansfield | |
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In office 17 October 2002 – 6 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Kate Allsop |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1951 |
| Political party | Mansfield Independent Forum |
Tony Egginton (born 1951) was the first directly-elected Mayor of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. He was elected to the position on 17 October 2002 and held the port until 8 May 2015. Egginton had previously been a newsagent.
Egginton was the first elected Executive Mayor in a new position created after a public referendum.
Mansfield District Council had suggested a preference of a Leader of the Council - chosen from within the majority political party and a Chief Executive Officer.
At a 2002 referendum the electorate voted in favour of the creation of a directly elected Mayor with Executive powers, instead of a Leader and a Managing Director.
Egginton stood for mayor after being convinced to do so by the leader of the campaign for the creation of a Mayor of Mansfield Stuart Rickersey .
Following Egginton's successful election as Mayor,and the election of independent candidates allinged to Egginton and Rickersey, winning control with 25 seats consisting of mostly new and inexperienced councillors. the Mansfield Independent Forum registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission in 2005, although with members still remaining notionally independent of one another. Egginton formed his Cabinet mostly of MIF members including Rickersey as Portfolio Holder for Corporate Issues.
Rickersey was appointed as a cabinet member as subsequently removed in cisrumsatnces which Rickersey blamed on influence of Council Officers over Egginton. Rickersey lead Egginton's successful 2007 re-election.
In Egginton's 2007 re-election manifesto, it contained a commitment to reduce the number of ward councillors from 46 to 36 by applying to the Boundary Commission to re-structure ward layout and boundaries.
This major change for the Mansfield electoral area was approved for the 2011 local elections with 36 single-member wards being created from the previous 19 wards.
Egginton's was born in 1951,attending Mansfield's Sherwood Hall Technical Grammar School, and employed circa 1970 at Blackwell Rural District Council. Later working as an apprentice at Metal Box Limited in Mansfield.
In a 2012 BBC Radio Nottingham interview with presenter John Holmes, Egginton stated he was employed at the old Mansfield Borough Council during the building of the Four Seasons shopping centre. Mansfield Borough became a District Council 1 April 1974, merging with the two nearby smaller Urban District authorities of Mansfield Woodhouse and Warsop.
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