predecessor successor nationality party office term_start article_title term_end name occupation
loveday carlyon dick cole british mebyon kernow leader of mebyon kernow 1990 loveday jenkin
 1997 loveday jenkin councillor
loveday jenkin

loveday jenkin is a cornish nationalist politician .
jenkin is the daughter of richard and ann jenkin , key figures in cornish nationalist political party mebyon kernow .
she studied plant bioscience at cardiff university and the university of cambridge , and worked at a local conservation charity .
in 1990 , she was elected as leader of mebyon kernow , then at a low ebb .
she served until 1997 , focusing on reviving the party 's electoral performance .
she stood as the party 's candidate for cornwall and west plymouth at the 1994 european election , taking 1.5 % of the vote .
soon after , she was elected to kerrier district council , representing the crowan district .
she subsequently stood , unsuccessfully , for parliament on a number of occasions .
at the 2010 uk general election , she stood in camborne and redruth , taking 775 votes , coming 5th .
out of seven candidates .
at the 2015 uk general election , she again stood in camborne and redruth , taking 897 votes , giving her the last place of 6 candidates standing , but increasing her vote total and also her percentage of votes cast -lrb- +0.2 % -rrb- .
she was elected to cornwall council in a 2011 by-election , representing the wendron district .
jenkin is a lecturer at the camborne school of mines , where she has undertaken studies into japanese knotweed , she is also a bard of the gorsedh kernow , has served as cornwall 's great trees officer , and chairs the cornish language fellowship .
jenkin has two children , who were brought up speaking cornish as their first language .
