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East Riding of Yorkshire Council is the local authority for the East Riding of Yorkshire, a unitary authority area within the larger ceremonial county of the same name. The council has been under no overall control since 2023, being led by a Conservative minority administration. It is based at County Hall in Beverley.
The East Riding of Yorkshire is divided into two council areas: Kingston upon Hull is managed by Hull City Council, and the rest of the county is managed by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. A non-mayoral devolution deal was proposed for the county, a mayoral deal received approval from the Secretary of State as of September 2024.
Rowan Halstead was announced as the Yorkshire Party's candidate for Mayor on 30 January 2025. [7] He is an engineer and ex-soldier and has previously stood for the Bricknell Ward in the 2024 Election for Hull City Council and also stood for the party in the 2024 UK general election for the Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham Constituency.
Humberside was abolished in 1996 both as a county council and a non-metropolitan county, being succeeded by the four unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
The East Riding of Yorkshire is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was created on 1 April 1996 replacing East Yorkshire, East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley, Holderness, part of Boothferry and Humberside County Council. The East Riding of Yorkshire Council is fully elected every four years.
The Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority (HEYCA) is a combined authority for the city of Hull and county of East Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. [2] The first election for the Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire , who will chair HEYCA, is expected to take place in May 2025.
Local government was reorganised again, with the abolition of Humberside County Council in 1996, and county hall became the offices of the new unitary authority, East Riding of Yorkshire Council at that time. [10] The council chamber was refurbished in late 2019. [11]
In April 2013, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council approved planning for the conversion of the building into a theatre which opened in 2014. [4] The theatre's founder and original artistic director was Vincent Regan, who instead of using Arts Council or Heritage Lottery Fund funding, used sponsorship from local businesses. [2]