On Thursday 5th May 2011, Leicester residents voted in Peter Soulsby as our new city mayor, who'll lead the city for four years.
He has appointed Rory Palmer as his deputy, and the following councillors as assistant city mayor:
- Ted Cassidy
- Piara Singh Clair
- Mohammed Dawood
- Vi Dempster
- Sarah Russell
- Manjula Sood.
See the full city mayor result here.
This year's polling day was our biggest ever as the city went to the polls to elect a mayor and vote for their local ward councillor.
There was also a referendum for an Alternative Voting (A.V.) system to be possibly introduced for the next General Election. Plus a Parliamentary By-election for Leicester South.
You can see all our election results here.
Our council and councillors
We have 54 Councillors representing 22 Wards across the city.
Our council is composed of 52 Labour Councillors, 1 Conservative Councillor and 1 Liberal Democrat Councillor. A poster showing all Councillors can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Contact your councillor
For general councillor queries, please contact our Members' Services team on (0116) 229 8855.
Or you can write directly to your Councillor. Please add their name to the envelope and post it to:
c/o Members' Services, Leicester City Council, 2nd Floor, Town Hall, Leicester, LE1 9BG
To complain about the behaviour of a Councillor, you must write to the Council's Standards Committee.
Councillors' personal web pages on councillor.leicester.gov.uk
All our councillors have their own personal web pages, which they update themselves.
You can see these at
councillor.leicester.gov.uk
Other councillor information
For more on our councillors, visit:
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Webcasts of council meetings
Watch our next full council meeting streamed live from the Town Hall chamber on Thursday 24th November 2011.
Visit our webcasting website, leicester.public-i.tv, to watch online from 5pm that day.
If you can't join us that day, we'll be archiving the broadcast soon after so you can watch at a time that's convenient to you.
Get more information on our webcasting service and archived meeting at
leicester.gov.uk/webcasts.
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Find out which ward you live in using our ward map, select your ward to view details of your local councillors.
You can also discover which ward you live in using your postcode with our Ward Search tool.
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Visit the Democratic Support pages to find out about:
- The different Committees and what they do
- Which Councillors are on each Committee
- How to get involved in the Council's Committees
- Get copies of agenda
- Get reports and minutes for each Committee
- Get contact details.
The council has a process by which its work can be scrutinised. The scrutiny process consists of an Overview and Scrutiny Committee and six Scrutiny Commissions.
The Democratic Support pages includes a section on Community Meetings which the council currently holds in each ward across the city. There is also information relating to the council's decision-making processes such as the Forward Plan, which details the key decisions the Cabinet / Council will be taking over the next four months; and the Calendar of Meetings.
You can also find information about presenting a petition at meetings.
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