Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside,England. It consists of 85 councillors,for the city's 64 wards. Following a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission the number of wards increased to 64 at the elections on Thursday 4th May 2023. Three wards elect 3 councillors each,fifteen wards elect 2 councillors each and the remaining 46 wards each elect a single councillor,which brought down the total number of councillors to 85.
Liverpool City Council elections will be held every four years from 2023. Between 1973 and 2021 elections were generally held three years out of every four,with a third of the council being elected each time. Liverpool City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Liverpool in Merseyside,England. Since the last boundary changes in 2004,90 councillors have been elected from 30 wards. New ward boundaries are being prepared to take effect from the 2023 election.
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council elections are held every four years from 2023 onwards,having previously been held three years out of every four for a third of the council at a time. Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,generally known as Wirral Council,is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Wirral in Merseyside,England.
Princes Park ward is a Liverpool City Council Ward in the Liverpool Riverside Parliamentary constituency.
Steven Philip Rotheram is a British Labour politician who was elected Mayor of the Liverpool City Region in 2017.
Wavertree ward was an electoral division of Liverpool City Council centred on the Wavertree,Liverpool district of Liverpool.
Clubmoor ward was an electoral division of Liverpool City Council in the Liverpool Walton Parliamentary constituency.
From 2012 to 2023,the mayor of Liverpool was the executive mayor of the city of Liverpool in England. The office was abolished in 2023 and its functions were replaced with the leader of Liverpool City Council.
The 2018 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.
The 2019 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.
The 2019 Liverpool City Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Liverpool City Council in England. This was the same day as other local elections.
The second Liverpool City Region mayoral election was held in May 2021 to elect the mayor of the Liverpool City Region,alongside other local elections across England and Wales,to elect councillors,the mayor of Liverpool,and police and crime commissioners across the city region. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020,but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ian Robert Byrne is a British Labour Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Derby since the 2019 general election. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary grouping.
Wendy Simon is a Labour Party politician who exercised the powers and duties of the office of Mayor of Liverpool from 2020 to 2021. Mayor Joe Anderson temporarily stepped aside in December 2020. Although Anderson formally remained as Mayor until the end of his term,Simon performed Anderson’s duties. She also served as Deputy Mayor of Liverpool from 2018 to 2021.
Joanne Marie Anderson is a British Labour Party politician who served as the second and final directly elected Mayor of Liverpool from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as the Liverpool City Councillor for the Princes Park ward from October 2019 to May 2021. She was the first woman to be Mayor of the city and the first black woman to be a directly elected mayor in the UK. Anderson left office in May 2023 at the end of her term.
Emily Elizabeth Spurrell is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as the Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) in May 2021. She was previously a Liverpool City councillor for Mossley Hill and the deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside.
The 2022 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. One third of councillors —15 out of 45 —on Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council were elected. The election took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom.
Petrona Lashley was a British Labour politician and community activist. She was Liverpool's first black Deputy Lord Mayor,and one of its earliest black councillors.
The 2024 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024,alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day.
The Liverpool Community Independents are a British political party based in Liverpool. The group was formed in 2022,by former Labour councillors,who had been suspended for refusing to vote for budget cuts. Although it is part of Transform,it is still active,and fielding candidates,in its own right.
