Bath and North East Somerset Council
| Bath and North East Somerset Council | |
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| Whole council elected every four years | |
Council logo
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Unicameral |
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Term limits
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None |
| History | |
| Founded | 1 April 1996 |
| Preceded by | Bath Borough Council Wansdyke District Council |
| Leadership | |
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Chief Executive
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Jo Farrar
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Leader of Council
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Tim Warren, Conservative
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Leader of the Opposition
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Robin Moss, Labour
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| Structure | |
| Seats | 65 councillors |
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37 / 65
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15 / 65
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6 / 65
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5 / 65
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2 / 65
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| Elections | |
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Council last election
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7 May 2015 |
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Council next election
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2019 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Guildhall, Bath | |
| Website | |
| www |
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Bath and North East Somerset Council is the local council for the district of Bath and North East Somerset in Somerset, England.
It is a unitary authority, with the powers and functions of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. The council consists of 65 councillors, 32 from Bath, 6 each from the and Keynsham areas, and 21 others.
Historically part of the county of Somerset, Bath was made a county borough in 1889 so being independent of the newly created administrative Somerset county council, which covered the rest of the area that became Bath and North East Somerset. The area that would become Bath and North East Somerset became part of Avon when that non-metropolitan county was created in 1974. Since the abolition of Avon in 1996, Bath has been the main centre of the district of Bath and North East Somerset, one of the four authorities that replaced Avon County Council and the six district councils of Avon. The authority covers the combined areas of the non-metropolitan districts (that existed 1974 to 1996) of Wansdyke and Bath.
Before the Reform Act of 1832 Bath elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons. Bath now has a single parliamentary constituency, with Conservative Ben Howlett as Member of Parliament. The rest of the area falls within the North East Somerset constituency. Previously most of the area was in the Wansdyke constituency, which covers the part of Bath and North East Somerset that is not in the Bath constituency. It also contained four wards or parts of wards from South Gloucestershire Council. It was named after the former Wansdyke district.
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