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Sarah Deborah Champion (born 10 July 1969) is a British Labour politician and Member of parliament for Rotherham in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Having previously been employed as the Chief Executive of the local hospice, Champion was selected as the Labour candidate at the Rotherham by-election, 2012. Champion was given the role of Shadow Minister for Preventing Abuse in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn. ==Career== Champion graduated with a degree in psychology from Sheffield University in 1991. After working as a volunteer at Sheffield's St Luke's Hospice and running art workshops at the city's Abbeydale Road Secondary School she gained full-time employment, running Rotherham Arts Centre from 1992-1994. Sarah then worked as an Arts Development Officer for Ashfield District Council. She ran the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester from 1996 to 2008, and was the Chief Executive of the Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice in North Anston, Rotherham from 2008 to 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography ) 〕 In November 2012 she was selected to be Labour's candidate for the upcoming Rotherham by-election, which was triggered by the resignation of the constituency's previous MP, Denis MacShane. Champion was chosen to stand for Parliament after a controversial shortlist was imposed by the national party. Her selection took place at a heated meeting from which several delegates walked out in protest that Mahroof Hussain was not shortlisted. She was elected as MP for Rotherham on 29 November with 9,866 votes (a 46.25% overall share of the vote). Jane Collins of the UK Independence Party was second with 4,648 votes (21.79%), achieving that party's best result in a by-election. Labour achieved a majority of 5,218 (24.46%), an increase in terms of percentage from Rotherham's 2010 general election result, but a decrease in the actual number of votes cast. Champion is Rotherham's first female MP. In an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield on 30 November 2012 Champion said that she does not regard herself as a 'career politician': "There are some people who from the moment they were born wanted to be a politician. Whereas for me, since I started working I've always been working with the community and I want to carry on doing that."〔 In a 2014 BBC interview Champion admitted that she rarely attends Prime Minister's Questions. On 7 May 2015, Champion was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Rotherham with a 52.5% share of the vote. She secured 19,860 votes, increasing her majority by over 3,000. Sarah Champion was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.〔http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/06/who-nominated-who-2015-labour-leadership-election〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Champion (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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