A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods , thoroughfares , parishes , landmarks , geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to the area (e.g. William Morris Ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest , England). It is common in the United States for wards to simply be numbered.
13-465: Lligwy is an electoral ward on the northeast coast of Anglesey , Wales . It includes the communities Moelfre , Llaneugrad , Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf (including the village of Benllech ) and Pentraeth ; and the electoral ward of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd in the community of Llanddyfnan . Lligwy elects three county councillors to the Isle of Anglesey County Council . Lligwy was created following
26-543: A city or borough is termed a metropolitan district ( ceantar cathrach ) or borough district ( ceantar buirge ) respectively. In 2019, John Paul Phelan , Minister of State for Local Government and Electoral Reform , commented in the Dáil: Municipal districts have an extensive list of functions currently, but the situation is haphazard ... some local authorities are better at performing some functions than others. I have found that some local authorities have
39-660: A ku (or 区 in Japanese writing ) is an administrative unit of one of the larger cities, closely equivalent to the divisions or wards of a London Borough or a New York Borough. In Vietnam , a phường is an administrative subunit of an inner city district, or quận . Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal are political divisions which are grouped into Gaunpalika ( Rural council ) and Municipality . A rural municipality or municipality has minimum of five and maximum of 33 divisions. Local electoral area A local electoral area ( LEA ; Irish : toghlimistéar áitiúil )
52-635: A ward was an administrative subdivision of a county , very similar to a hundred in other parts of England. In Australia , Canada , New Zealand , South Africa , Sri Lanka , the United Kingdom , and the United States , wards are an electoral district , within a district or municipality , used in local government elections. In the United States, wards are usually subdivided into precincts for polling purposes. In Wisconsin,
65-546: A 'ward' is what in most other states would be a precinct In some cities of India , such as Mumbai and Delhi , a ward is an administrative unit of the city region; a city area is divided into Zones, which in turn contain numerous wards. The smallest administrative unit of Gram Panchayats in India is also known as a ward. In Bangladesh wards are subdivisions of a city or town which administrates under City Corporations and municipalities ( pourashova ) In East Africa,
78-533: A strong municipal district structure, with the districts being where most of the nitty-gritty work of local authorities is done, be it roads, footpaths or lights. Some do not have that structure, though, with decisions rehashed or debated again at the councils' plenary sessions. Boundaries for local electoral areas and municipal district are determined by statutory instrument of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage . The Minister must first request
91-477: A total of 3,440 EDs in the state. As well as their use for electoral purposes, LEAs are local administrative units in Eurostat NUTS classification. They are used in local numbers of cases of COVID-19 . A municipal district ( Irish : ceantar bardasach ) is a division of a local authority which can exercise certain powers of the local authority. They came into being on 1 June 2014, ten days after
104-586: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Electoral ward The word "ward", for an electoral subdivision, appears to have originated in the Wards of the City of London , where gatherings for each ward known as "wardmotes" have taken place since the 12th century. The word was much later applied to divisions of other cities and towns in England and Wales and Ireland . In parts of northern England ,
117-521: Is an electoral area for elections to local authorities in Ireland . All elections use the single transferable vote . The Republic of Ireland is divided into 166 LEAs, with an average population of 28,700 and average area of 423.3 square kilometres (163.4 sq mi). The boundaries of LEAs are determined by order of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , usually based on lower-level units called electoral divisions (EDs), with
130-1190: The Electoral Commission to prepare a report. The minister must have regard to this report in making any changes. Prior to the establishment of the Electoral Commission in 2023, recommendations on local electoral boundary changes were made by an independent boundary committee established for that purpose. A boundary committee has been required since 1994 for electoral areas. The 2012–13 Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee considered both administrative areas (municipal districts, though not counties/cities) and electoral areas. In 2015, separate committees were set up to consider adjustments to county and municipal boundaries passing through each of four urban areas: Athlone , Carlow , Drogheda , and Waterford . A Boundary Committee established in 2017 and which reported in June 2018 recommended alterations to municipal districts and local electoral areas which were implemented in December 2018. Below are
143-704: The Isle of Anglesey electoral boundary changes in 2012, which created 11 multi-councillor wards from 40 single-councillor wards. Prior to this Lligwy was covered by the Moelfre ward and parts of the Brynteg , Llanbedrgoch , Llanddyfnan and Pentraeth county wards which each elected their own county councillor. Since the May 2017 county elections , the ward has been represented by Plaid Cymru councillor Vaughan Hughes and two Independent councillors, Ieuan Williams and Margaret Murley Roberts. This Wales -related article
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#1732797550434156-540: The local elections , under the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 . Of the 31 local authorities, 25 are subdivided into municipal districts, which comprise one or more LEA. The exceptions are the three city councils ( Cork City , Dublin City and Galway City ) and the three county councils in Dublin ( Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown , Fingal and South Dublin ). A district associated with
169-819: The word ward used in English is translated into Swahili/Kiswahili as Kata. In the case of a municipal amalgamation , the former cities and towns that make up the new metropolis may be referred to as wards. In Monaco , wards are informal divisions of the country, grouped into quartiers. In the Republic of Ireland , urban divisions were called wards and rural ones were called district electoral divisions . Both were renamed as electoral divisions in 1996. The electoral districts for Irish local authorities are local electoral areas . These are generally defined as combinations of electoral divisions, and in urban areas were formally described as combination of wards. In Japan ,
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