Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom
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The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are
England
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In urban areas, the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly the same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury) can be divided into two or more wards.
City of London
The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city.
Isles of Scilly
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly.[3]
Civil parishes
Historic use
The four most northerly
Wales
In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils (county councils or county borough councils). These were formally called electoral divisions.[5]
Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council.[6]
Scotland
All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections.
Northern Ireland
Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas,[8] with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by the Local Government (Boundaries) (NI) Order 1972 (No. 131) and DEAs were first created by the Local Government (District Electoral Areas) Regulations 1973 (No.94)
See also
References
- ^ ONS Electoral wards/divisions (www.ons.gov.uk) Retrieved 15 June 2014
- ^ "England - Office for National Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ Council of the Isles of Scilly Elections
- ^ W. L. Warren, The Myth of Norman Administrative Efficiency: The Prothero Lecture in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Ser., Vol. 34. (1984), p. 125
- ^ "Local Government Act 1972 § 25". The National Archives. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ^ "Local Government Act 1972 § 35". The National Archives. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ^ "Research: Electoral Wards and Polling Districts - Research and data - Scottish Borders Council".
- ^ "Administrative Boundary Maps". Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
External links
- Office For National Statistics list of UK wards as of 31 December 2011 , Retrieved 15 June 2014.