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Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

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Type
  
Cabinet-style council

Mayor
  
Cllr Ronald Conway

Preceded by
  
14 councils

Deputy Mayor
  
Cllr Bill Clarke

Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

Founded
  
1 April 1974 (1974-04-01)

Council Leader
  
Lord Smith of Leigh,Labour Party

The Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in the United Kingdom. It consists of 75 Councillors with one-third being elected every three years in four. The borough is separated into 25 wards. Councillors are democratically accountable to the ward they are elected to represent. Each ward is represented on the council by three council members.

Contents

Map of Wigan District, UK

Council members by ward

This is a list of the 33rd and current Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council:

Cabinet

Eight councilors are appointed to the cabinet who are each a 'Portfolio Holder' for an area of responsibility. (Such as 'Portfolio Holder for Environment').

Deaths in office

  • On 28 January 2013, Councillor Barbara Bourne, a representative of Pemberton since 1996, died in office following a long term illness. She was responsible for a long campaign for a new medical centre, which was opened in the area of Kitt Green, in 2010. The office for a third councillor currently remains vacant.

    • References

    Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council Wikipedia
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