• The Mayor of Bristol was the political leader of Bristol City Council. The mayor was a directly elected politician who, along with the 70 members of Bristol...
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    executive function is controlled by its directly elected mayor. Bristol has 34 wards, electing a total of 70 councillors. The council was formed by the Local...
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    The position of Lord Mayor of Bristol was conferred on the city in June 1899 (effective 15 November 1899) as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours and...
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  • councillors to the Bristol City Council for a four-year term. These were the first council elections held since the position of Mayor of Bristol was abolished...
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    entrepreneur who served as the first elected mayor of Bristol from 2012 to 2016. Ferguson was co-founder of Ferguson Mann Architects in 1979, where regeneration...
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    lord mayor of Bristol is a figurehead elected each May by the city council. The current lord mayor is Councillor Paul Goggin.> In the House of Commons...
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    Marvin Rees (category Mayors of Bristol)
    politician who served as the second and final Mayor of Bristol from 2016 to 2024. Marvin Rees was brought up in Bristol, partly in Lawrence Weston and Easton...
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    In 2017 the West of England Combined Authority and Mayor of the West of England were created covering the local authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershire...
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    local elections. Voters in the city also voted for the mayor of Bristol, the mayor of the West of England and for Avon and Somerset's police and crime commissioner...
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  • has also had a directly elected mayor. Because of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, elections for the Mayor of Bristol, Bristol City Council councillors, and...
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    The body has its headquarters in the Redcliffe area of Bristol, and is led by the Mayor of the West of England. The most recent election for this post took...
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  • from Bristol mayor's briefings". BBC News. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022. "Bristol mayor Marvin Rees faces boycott by BBC, ITV and Bristol Live"...
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    formally opened by the Lord Mayor of Bristol on 18 September 1934. The BBC has been on the same site ever since. Prior to the opening of Broadcasting House, the...
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  • and politician who was Mayor of Bristol in 1790. He played a significant part in the early anti and pro-slavery debates in Bristol. John Harris was born...
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    Turnout in the election was: 29.3% Mayor of Bath Mayor of Bristol History of local government in Bristol § Mayors Local Democracy, Economic Development...
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  • Mayor of Bristol". Bristol City Council. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2008. "How to address the Mayor". Borough...
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    Bristol is a suburban city located in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, 20 miles (32 km) southwest-west of Hartford. The city is also 120 miles...
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    Tower Hamlets, which both voted to retain the mayoral system. Bristol voted to remove the post of elected mayor in a referendum on 5 May 2022, to be replaced...
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    Bristol is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,219. It is the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee...
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  • take part of their salaries in Bristol pounds. The former Mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson, accepted his entire salary (£51,000) in Bristol pounds. From...
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    The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Due to the presence of Bristol Harbour...
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    William II Canynges (category Mayors of Bristol)
    shipper from Bristol, one of the wealthiest private citizens of his day and an occasional royal financier. He served as Mayor of Bristol five times and...
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    the style of her husband. The lord mayors and lord provosts of certain cities (ex officio) The lord mayors of London, Cardiff, Belfast, Bristol and York...
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    The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in...
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  • the office of Lord Mayor was created in 1888. Following a brief period as part of the county of Avon in the late twentieth century, Bristol regained its...
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    but councillors in Bristol voted down this proposal in early 2021. The mayor of the West of England is the directly elected head of the WECA. Under a devolution...
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    Geoff Gollop (category Mayors of Bristol)
    Conservative politician, the deputy mayor of Bristol, the former lord mayor of Bristol, and the former deputy lord mayor of Bristol. He was the Conservative candidate...
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    August 2020. Bristol City Council (1956). Council House Bristol. Bristol: Bristol City Council. "Lord Mayor's reception room". Bristol City Council....
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    Massive Attack (category Musical groups from Bristol)
    Attack criticised the Mayor of Bristol for cancelling the Bristol Arena project in the Temple Meads area of Bristol. The Mayor had announced a private...
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  • Councils currently operating the mayoral model include: Following a referendum in 2022, Bristol City Council will abandon the mayor and cabinet model and adopt...
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