Wakefield Council
| Wakefield Metropolitan District Council | |
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| Third of council elected three years out of four | |
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Council logo
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| Type | |
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| Houses | Unicameral |
| History | |
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New session started
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16 May 2013 (Municipal year 2013/2014) |
| Leadership | |
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Leader
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Peter Box, Labour
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Mayor
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Harry Ellis
Since 13 November 2013 |
| Seats | 63 |
| Elections | |
| Multiple member first-past-the-post voting | |
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Last election
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2014 (one third of councillors) 2015 (one third of councillors) 2016 (one third of councillors) |
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Next election
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2018 (one third of councillors) 2019 (one third of councillors) 2020 (one third of councillors) |
| Motto | |
| Persevere and prosper | |
| Meeting place | |
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| County Hall, Wakefield | |
| Website | |
| www |
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| Constitution | |
| Constitution, 16 May 2013 | |
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council and provides a full range of local government services including Council Tax billing, libraries, social services, processing planning applications, waste collection and disposal, and it is a local education authority. Wakefield is divided into 21 wards, electing 63 councillors. A third of the council is elected for three of every four years. The council was created by the Local Government Act 1972 and replaced the Wakefield City Council of the County Borough of Wakefield and several other authorities. Since 1974 Wakefield has held borough and city status and from this time would use the full title of the authority on all publications, signage, council vehicle fleet and documents, however from around 2005, like many other local authorities doing so at the time, the authority dropped the full title for the shorter Wakefield Council (although for an interim period when the new logo was unveiled, it would have the full authority title below however this has now been replaced with the strapline - 'working for you').
As of February 2013 the council is controlled by the Labour Party. The council leader has been Councillor Peter Box since 1998 and Merran McRae is the chief executive. Since April 2014 Wakefield Council is a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority with Council Leader Peter Box being elected the chairman of the combined authority.
The council was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 as the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. It replaced the existing Wakefield City Council that was the local authority of the County Borough of Wakefield. It also replaced Castleford Borough Council, Ossett Borough Council, Pontefract Borough Council, Featherstone Urban District Council, Hemsworth Urban District Council, Horbury Urban District Council, Knottingley Urban District Council, Normanton Urban District Council, Stanley Urban District Council, Wakefield Rural District Council, Hemsworth Rural District Council and Osgoldcross Rural District Council.
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