For details about all ward councillors, please visit the Westminster City Council website
Westminster City Council
Cllr Colin Barrow - Leader of the Westminster City Council
Westminster City Council is the local authority serving the heart of London.
The City of Westminster stretches from Pimlico and Victoria in the south through the West End, Marylebone and Bayswater to Paddington and Queen's Park in the north-west. It includes the capital's principal areas of government, shopping, entertainment and tourism and the headquarters of innumerable commercial and professional organisations together with extensive residential areas of all types.
The resident population now stands at approximately 181,700 but it is estimated that about 1 million people set foot in Westminster at some time during the day.
The City Council has 60 Members which, since the election in May 2002, (and bye-election in Church Street in September 2008) comprise:-
49 Conservative
11 Labour
The Lord Mayor is elected annually and carries out a large programme of civic duties, including attending many state occasions.
The City Council employs about 4,900 staff who are organised in nine departments and about 1,000 employees are located in or very close to City Hall in Victoria Street. Other employees are dispersed over a very large number of locations, almost all of them within the City boundaries.