City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Third of council elected three years out of four
	Coat of arms
	Council logo
Type
Type	Metropolitan district council of the City of Bradford
Houses	Unicameral
Term limits	None
History
Founded	1 April 1974
Leadership
Lord Mayor of Bradford	Cllr Doreen Lee, Labour Party
Leader of the Council	Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe, Labour Party
Chief executive	Kersten England
Structure
Seats	90 councillors
Political groups	Administration (51) Labour (51) Other parties (38) Conservative (21) Liberal Democrat (9) Green Party (2) Independent (5) Vacant (2)
Joint committees	West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Elections
Last election	2018 (one third of councillors); 2019 (one third of councillors); 2021 (one third of councillors)
Next election	(one third of councillors); (one third of councillors); (one third of councillors)
Meeting place
	Bradford City Hall
Website
	bradford.gov.uk

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Bradford. Since 1 April 2014 it has been a constituent council of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.^[1]

History[]

In 1974, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council was created to administer the newly formed metropolitan borough. The county borough of Bradford was merged with the Borough of Keighley, the Urban Districts of Baildon, Bingley, Cullingworth, Denholme, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with part of Queensbury and Shelf Urban District and part of Skipton Rural District by the Local Government Act 1972. The Council, which is based at Bradford City Hall in Centenary Square, governs the whole metropolitan district. The city was granted the right on 18 September 1907 to elect a Lord Mayor.

The district is divided into 30 Electoral Wards, each ward electing three Councillors. Elections are held in May, where one third of the 90 seats (one for each ward) are contested and the successful candidate is elected for a period of four years.

In March 2006, the UK's Audit Commission issued a report "in the public interest" regarding concerns about the procurement process for the acquisition of an asset management system. The report identified weaknesses in the Council's programme management and procurement processes, which the Council accepted "without reservation".^[2]

At the local elections in 2015, Labour won 17 of the 30 seats available to hold majority of the Council – on 46 of 90 seats.

Parliamentary representation[]

The council is currently covered by five constituencies with six wards in each constituency: Bradford East, Bradford South, Bradford West, Keighley and Shipley.^[3]

Wards and Councillors[]

Map of wards within the City of Bradford

Each ward is represented by three councillors.^[4]

Parliamentary constituency	Ward	Councillor	Party	Term of office
Bradford East	Bolton and Undercliffe	Rachel Sunderland	Liberal Democrats	2019–22
		Suhail Choudhry	Labour	2019–23
		David Ward	Liberal Democrats	2016–20
		David Ward	Independent	2017-20
	Bowling and Barkerend	Rizwana Jamil	Labour	2018–22
		Imran Khan	Labour	2015–19
		Hassan Khan	Labour	2016–20
	Bradford Moor	Mohammed Shafiq	Labour	2018–22
		Zafar Iqbal	Labour	2015–19
		Riaz Ahmed	Liberal Democrats	2016–20
	Eccleshill	Geoff Reid	Liberal Democrats	2018–22
		Nicola Pollard	Liberal Democrats	2015–19
		Brendan Stubbs	Liberal Democrats	2016–20
	Idle and Thackley	Julie Humphreys	Liberal Democrats	2018–22
		Jeanette Sunderland	Liberal Democrats	2015–19
		Alun Griffiths	Liberal Democrats	2016–20
	Little Horton	Fareeda Mir	Labour	2018–22
		Taj Salam	Labour	2015–19
		Talat Sajawal	Labour	2016–20
Bradford South	Great Horton	Joanne Dodds	Labour	2018–22
		Tariq Hussain	Labour	2015–19
		Abdul Jabar	Labour	2016–20
	Queensbury	Robert Hargreaves	Conservative	2018–22
		Andrew Senior	Conservative	2015–19
		Lynda Cromie	Independent	2016–20
	Royds	Ruth Wood	Labour	2018–22
		Angela Tait	Labour	2015–19
		Andrew Thornton	Labour	2016–20
	Tong	Alan Wainwright	Labour	2014–18
		Tess Peart	Labour	2015–19
		Michael Johnson	Labour	2016–20
	Wibsey	Sabiya Khan	Labour	2018–22
		Ralph Berry	Labour	2015–19
		David Green	Labour	2016–20
	Wyke	David Warburton	Labour	2014–18
		Sarah Ferriby	Labour	2015–19
		Rosie Watson	Labour	2016–20
Bradford West	City	Nazam Azam	Labour	2018–22
		Shakeela Lal	Labour	2015–19
		Aneela Ahmed	Labour	2016–20
	Clayton & Fairweather Green	Sinead Engel	Labour	2018–22
		Carol Thirkill	Labour	2015–19
		Michelle Swallow	Labour	2016–20
	Heaton	Nussrat Mohammed	Labour	2018–22
		Mohammed Amran	Labour	2015–19
		Mohammad Shabbir	Labour	2016–20
	Manningham	Shabir Hussain	Labour	2018–22
		Sameena Akhtar	Labour	2015–19
		Sarfraz Nazir	Labour	2016–20
	Thornton and Allerton	Richard Dunbar	Labour	2018–22
		Sue Duffy	Labour	2015–19
		Beverley Mullaney	Labour	2016–20
	Toller		Labour	2018–22
		Fozia Shaheen	Labour	2015–19
		Arshad Hussain	Labour	2016–20
Keighley	Craven	Rebecca Whitaker	Conservative	2018–22
		Jack Rickard	Conservative	2015–19
		Adrian Naylor	The Independents	2016–20
	Ilkley	Mike Gibbons	Conservative	2018–22
		Martin Smith	Conservative	2015–19
		Anne Hawkesworth	The Independents	2016–20
	Keighley Central	Abid Hussain (Died 24 dec 2020)	Labour	2018–22
		Zafar Ali	Conservative	2015–19
		Khadim Hussain	Labour	2016–20
	Keighley East	Caroline Firth	Labour	2018–22
		Doreen Lee	Labour	2015–19
		Malcolm Slater	Labour	2016–20
	Keighley West	Paul Godwin	Labour	2018–22
		Cath Bacon	Labour	2015–19
		Adrian Farley	Labour	2016–20
	Worth Valley	Chris Hird	Conservative	2018–22
		Rebecca Poulsen	Conservative	2015–19
		Russell Brown	Conservative	2016–20
Shipley	Baildon	Valerie Townend	Conservative	2018–22
		Mike Pollard	Conservative	2015–19
		Debbie Davies	Conservative	2016–20
	Bingley	David Heseltine	Conservative	2018–22
		Mark Shaw	Conservative	2015–19
		John Pennington	Conservative	2016–20
	Bingley Rural	Michael Ellis	Conservative	2018–22
		Simon Cooke	Conservative	2015–19
		Naveed Riaz	Conservative	2016–20
	Shipley	Vick Jenkins	Labour	2018–21
		Vick Jenkins	Independent	2021-22
		Kevin Warnes	Green Party	2019–23
		Martin Love	Green Party	2016–21*
	Wharfedale	Gerald Barker	Conservative	2014–22
		Jackie Whiteley	Conservative	2015–19
		Dale Smith	Conservative	2016–20
	Windhill and Wrose	Vanda Greenwood	Labour	2018–22
		Susan Hinchcliffe	Labour	2015–19
		Alex Ross-Shaw	Labour	2016–20

2020 election postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic

References[]

^ The West Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2014
^ Audit Commission, Report in the Public Interest under Section 8 of the Audit Commission Act 1988: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Audit 2005-2006, March 2006
^ "Your MPs". bradford.moderngov.co.uk. Bradford Council. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
^ "Your Councillors by Ward". bradford.moderngov.co.uk. Bradford Council. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

External links[]

City of Bradford MDC

[1] The West Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2014

[2] Audit Commission, Report in the Public Interest under Section 8 of the Audit Commission Act 1988: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Audit 2005-2006, March 2006

[3] "Your MPs". bradford.moderngov.co.uk. Bradford Council. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

[4] "Your Councillors by Ward". bradford.moderngov.co.uk. Bradford Council. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

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