Newham London Borough Council

Newham London Borough Council

Type
Type	London borough council of the London Borough of Newham
Leadership
Executive mayor	Robin Wales
Structure
Seats	60 councillors

Political groups	Executive (59) Labour (59) Opposition (1) Newham Independent (1)
Joint committees	East London Waste Authority
Elections
Voting system	Block vote
Last election	22 May 2014
Next election	May 2018
Meeting place
Newham Town Hall
Website
www.newham.gov.uk

Executive (59)

Opposition (1)

Newham London Borough Council ⁱ/ˈnjuːəm/ is the local authority for the London Borough of Newham. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. The council is unusual in that its executive function is controlled by a directly elected mayor of Newham, currently Robin Wales. Newham is divided into 20 wards, each electing three councillors. Newham London Borough Council comprises 59 Labour Party councillors and a solitary councillor expelled, with immediate effect from the Labour Party in 2017. The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced three local authorities: East Ham Borough Council, West Ham Borough Council and Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council.

Councillors were first elected in 1964, before being able to exercise power on creation of all London Boroughs on 1 April 1965. Newham replaced East Ham Borough Council, West Ham Borough Council and Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council (for North Woolwich). West Ham was a county borough (which meant that its council had the functions of both a county and a borough) from 1889 and East Ham gained that status in 1915. It was previously a non-county borough and between 1894 and 1904 it was governed by East Ham Urban District Council. Before 1900 North Woolwich was governed by the Vestry of the Parish of Woolwich.