David Boothroyd

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David Boothroyd (born November 9, 1972) is a British political researcher, author and local councillor.

Boothroyd was born in Leeds. His family moved to Scarborough in 1976 where he attended Newby County Primary School, and to Congleton, Cheshire, in 1983 where he attended Quinta County Primary School, and from 1984, Heathfield High School. From 1989 to 1991 he attended The King's School, Macclesfield, a public school/independent school. He then went to St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University, where he read Natural Sciences, and was involved with the Cambridge Organisation of Labour Students; among the other members at this time was Andrew Gilligan.

Having already joined the Labour Party in 1989, on leaving university Boothroyd worked briefly for John Battle, MP for Leeds West. From 1995 he was employed by "Parliamentary Monitoring Services" and contributed to their publications by finding the biographies of MPs. Boothroyd became known on Usenet from about this time for contributing election results; he also participated in political discussions on Usenet in which he became known for both a strong dislike of any links between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and a belief that the term 'Swing' should only ever be used to refer to movement between Conservative and Labour. He is a strong defender of the Labour government and Tony Blair. His style of presenting election results derives from that of F. W. S. Craig.

Boothroyd was active in local politics in Westminster City Council and fought unsuccessfully for a seat on it in 1998. He started a website, http://www.election.demon.co.uk, which gives UK election results, and wrote a book called Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties in 2001, which gives potted histories for the smaller fringe parties and longer histories for the larger ones. He also worked as a research assistant for Ian Lucas, MP for Wrexham, after the 2001 general election.

In 2002 he was elected to Westminster City Council, representing Westbourne ward, and was re-elected in 2006. He attracted some attention in 2005 when he campaigned vociferously against the City Council after it refused planning permission for the Rainbow Flag on a building in Soho. [1] He is openly gay. [2]

He is currently an Account Executive for Indigo Public Affairs, a company specialising in urban regeneration schemes and lobbying for planning consent.

He is a member of the Constitutional Monarchy Association, a group that is in favour of the Royal Family.[3]