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Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England.Since 1997 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council; it is independent from Staffordshire County Council.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2023, 44 councillors have been elected from 34 wards .
Stoke City's Bet365 Stadium, opened in 1997, has a 30,089 capacity. [100] Stoke-on-Trent is the smallest city to boast two professional clubs in the English Football League. The club bearing the area's name is Stoke City, formed in 1863 and is the second-oldest professional football club in England. [101]
The building remained the local seat of government after the formation of the enlarged Stoke-on-Trent City Council in 1974. [12] The new city council inherited additional facilities at Unity House in Hanley which had been completed in 1973, but as part of an initiative to co-locate its staff, the city council vacated Unity House and constructed ...
The 2023 Stoke-on-Trent City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Stoke-on-Trent City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. [1] New ward boundaries took effect for this election, although the number of councillors stayed the same at 44. [2]
David Williams is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North since 2024. [1]Williams studied at the University of Keele. [2] He was elected to Stoke-on-Trent City Council in 2019, representing Little Chell and Stanfield ward, a role which he continues to undertake whilst serving as a full-time Member of Parliament.
The position of Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent is largely ceremonial, determined by a vote amongst the elected councillors of Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Candidates are selected from the councillors. The lord mayor for 2022 to 2023 is Faisal Hussain, a Conservative.
In addition, the boundary with Stoke-on-Trent North were re-aligned to take account of changes to ward boundaries. Following a further local government boundary review in the City of Stoke-on-Trent which came into effect in May 2023, [8] [9] the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election: