City of Durham

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City of Durham
Shown within County Durham
Geography
Status:	City
Region:	North East England
Admin. County:	County Durham
Area: - Total	Ranked 195th 186.68 km²
Admin. HQ:	Durham
ONS code:	20UE
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 244th 92,200 494 / km²
Ethnicity:	97.7% White
Politics
Durham City Council http://www.durhamcity.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Liberal Democrats
MP:	Roberta Blackman-Woods

Durham is a local government district in County Durham, England. Its main settlement is Durham.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 when the borough of Durham and Framwelgate was joined to the, Brandon and Byshottles urban district and Durham Rural District..

The City of Durham district council will be abolished by April 1999, when County Durham's county council becomes a unitary authority. The original city of Durham could still continue as a town council.

1 Mayors of the City of Durham
- 1.1 Mayors since 1974
2 Composition of the Council
3 Other websites

[change] Mayors of the City of Durham

Mayors of the City of Durham are styled "The Right Worshipful, The Mayor of Durham". The Mayoralty is taken as a continuation of the mayoralty of the pre-1974 Durham and Framwelgate. The Mayor of Durham is entitled to an armed ceremonial bodyguard.

[change] Mayors since 1974

1974/75 John J. Ramshaw, B.E.M.
1975/76 Clifford Ellison, B.E.M.
1976/77 James Mackintosh
1977/78 Allan Thompson, J.P.
1978/79 Joseph Edward Wright, B.E.M., J.P.
1979/80 James Barr Lattimer, J.P.
1980/81 Joseph Sylvester Anderson
1981/82 William Taylor
1982/83 Walter Stobbs
1983/84 Derek Hanson
1984/85 Ebenezer Shuker
1985/86 Alan Crooks, J.P.
1986/87 Robert Clewes
1987/88 Ivy Elaine Humphries
1988/89 Mildred Brown
1989/90 James Alfred Fearon
1990/91 William Henry Hartwell
1991/92 David Bell
1992/93 Michael Rochford
1993/94 Maurice Crathorne, M.B.E.
1994/95 William Dermot Cavanagh, M.A.
1995/96 Stephen Terence McDonnell, D.N.
1996/97 Joseph Sylvester Anderson
1997/98 Neil Griffin, B.Ed, M.A.
1998/99 Derek Young
1999/00 Margaret Adair
2000/01 George Wharton
2001/02 John George Cowper
2002/03 Eileen Rochford
2003/04 Raymond Gibbon
2004/05 Mary Ruth Hawgood
2005/06 John George Taylor Lightley
2006/07 William Jeffrey Lodge
2007/08 Robert Wynn

[change] Composition of the Council

The Council is made up of 50 councillors elected every four years (last elections 2007). In 2007 the council is made of is Liberal Democrat (30), Labour (17), and Independent (3) members.

Liberal Democrats first took control of the council in the 2003 elections. Labour had held overall control of the City Council continually since the early 1980s.