Preston City Council
Preston City Council is the local council for the City of Preston, Lancashire. City Councillors are elected through the Preston local elections.
There are 48 elected councillors, who meet every two months at the Full Council meetings. However most of the decisions are made by a cabinet composed of the Leader of the Council leader, the Deputy Leader and Planning and Regulation Cabinet Member, the Resources and Performance Cabinet Member, the Environment Cabinet Member and the Communities and Social Justice Cabinet Member. These decisions scrutinised by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which has a cross-party composition.
The city is divided into districts which are in turn divided into wards.
Following the 2019 Preston City Council election the Council was composed of 30 Labour Party councillors, 9 Conservative Party councillors and 9 Liberal Democrats councillors. This was after boundary changes were introduced which reduced the total number of councillors from 57 to 48.
