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Council & democracy

The council is made up of 51 elected local councillors from 17 wards, also known as local voting areas, across the borough. Here you can find out what voting area you live in, or how to meet your councillor.

Tower Hamlets Council employs around 10,500 staff in six directorates around 4,800 of whom are based in schools.

Meet your councillor

  • Contact your local councillor
  • Council meetings calendar

Tower Hamlets Mayor

Tower Hamlets Mayor is responsible for many of the ceremonial duties of the council. A new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected every year from among the serving councillors in the borough.

Council budgets

We report our budgets and spending to show how we use public money. We also record and publish all decisions and recommendations from meetings.

Consultations, contracts, and performance

In this section you can read about the range of consultation practices in the council, the tenders and contracts process, and how we measure our performance.

Data protection and freedom of information

Find out about the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and what information can be made available to the public.

On-line services
  • In your ward
  • Council meetings, agendas and minutes
  • Council meetings this month
  • Contact the council 
  • Contact Tower Hamlets Mayor 
  • Comments and compliments
  • Making a complaint
News
  • Consultation: An Elected Mayor in Tower Hamlets
  • Record turnout elects young Mayor Landry
  • International Day of Democracy!
  • Voter Registration Canvass 2009
What's on
  • A Baishakhi Mela in Banglatown, Brick Lane
  • Spitalfields Music Summer Festival 2010
  • Kasia Molga exhibitions
  • Wise Words
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