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  2. Politics of the Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    The Isle of Wight was a part of the South East England region for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections. 2019 European parliamentary elections. The following results are exclusively for the Isle of Wight; results are collated regionally prior to MEPs being assigned under the closed list proportional representation system.

  3. Isle of Wight Council - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .iow .gov .uk. Isle of Wight Council, known between 1890 and 1995 as Isle of Wight County Council, is the local authority for the Isle of Wight in England. Since 1995 it has been a unitary authority, having also taken on district-level functions when the county's districts were abolished. It is based at County Hall in Newport.

  4. Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    Website. iow .gov .uk. The Isle of Wight ( /waɪt/ WYTE) is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island in England. Referred to as "The Island" by residents, [4] the Isle of Wight has ...

  5. History of the Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [55]

  6. Isle of Wight County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    It was named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,606. Its county seat is Isle of Wight, an unincorporated community. Isle of Wight County is located in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its ...

  7. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary - Wikipedia

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    The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in South East England. [6] The force area includes Southampton, the largest city in South East England, and the naval city of Portsmouth. [6] It also covers the New Forest National Park, sections ...

  8. Bob Seely - Wikipedia

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    Captain. Robert William Henry Seely [3] MBE (born 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Isle of Wight since 2017. [4] Seely is a former journalist and soldier. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as a foreign correspondent in the USSR and in post-Soviet states.

  9. List of governors of the Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    Governors of the Isle of Wight. 1509–1520: Sir Nicholas Wadham (1472-1542) of Merryfield and Edge, "Captain of the Isle of Wight". [1] 1520–1538: Sir James Worsley [2] 1538–1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (later Earl of Essex) 1540–1553: Richard Worsley [3] 1553–1558: Sir William Girling. 1558–1560: William Paulet, 1st ...

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