Eric Syddique Explained

Eric Mahmood Syddique (1936 - January 2020)^{[1] [2]} was chief executive of the UK Electoral Reform Society in the 1990s.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

From 2001 to 2013 he was secretary of Electoral Reform International Services, which provides assistance in conducting elections worldwide.^{[7] [8]} He has written extensively for Voting matters^[9] and Representation.^[10]

Syddique was a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House,^[11] and vice chairman of the UK's H S Chapman Society.^[12] He was also a member of the Council of the Hansard Society.^[13]

In 1986 Syddique was Chairman of the Lewisham and Kent Islamic Centre.^[14]

He wrote the entry for Enid Lakeman (one of his predecessors as ERS chief executive, who died in 1995) in the 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^[15]

In 1971 he was elected a member of the Liberal Party Council.^[16]

From 1973 to 1995^[1] Eric Syddique was a Liberal Democrat member of Sevenoaks District Council in Kent.^{[17] [18]}

Eric Syddique died aged 84 in January 2020 at home in Eynsford, where he had lived for 60 years.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eric Mahmood Syddique 1936 - 2020 . Sevenoaks Liberal Democrats . Tony . Clayton . 26 January 2020.
2. Web site: Eric Syddique . myheritage.com/.
3. News: Letter: Snags of Hansard voting system . E.M. Syddique . The Independent . London . 20 November 1996.
4. News: Burrell . Ian . Teenagers too naive, say critics . London . The Independent . 31 January 1997 . 27 February 2010.
5. Web site: KCC elections 2013: An analysis of the results by Michael Steed and Eric Syddique . Canterbury District Green Party . 8 May 2013 . 18 December 2019.
6. Web site: Postmark Africa: Can Prisoners Vote? . BBC World Service . 16 May 1996.
7. Web site: Electoral Reform International Services Limited . Companies House . Cardiff . 18 December 2019.
8. Web site: ERIS Annual Report 2010 . PDF . Electoral Reform International Services .
9. http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE10/P2.HTM Voting matters
10. http://prod.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g795314764~db=all informaworld catalogue of writing for Representation
11. http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/supportus/donations/ chathamhouse.org.uk
12. http://hschapman.org.uk/html/officers___committee.html Officers + Committee, H.S. Chapman Society (UK)
13. Parliamentary Affairs . April 1997 . OUP in association with The Hansard Society.
14. News: Koran in translation (Letters to the Editor) . The Times . London . 17 December 1986 . 19 . E.M. Syddique.
15. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101063221/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
16. Book: Oakley, Robin . The Political Year 1971 . 200 . Pitman . 1971 . 978-0273361244 . London.
17. http://www.felhs.org.uk/bulletins/Bulletin76web.pdf The Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society
18. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/review_areas/downloads/TR_Ashford_Day3.doc Minutes of planning enquiry 19 November 2003