Your councillors
Council
The Council is made up of 57 elected members, known as councillors, who each represent one of the 22 wards within Warrington. Some wards have more than one councillor serving them and the number of seats within individual wards varies depending on the area and population served. The borough has 14 three-member wards, seven two-member wards and one single-member ward.
Councillors
Members are elected for a four year period and their role is:
- to serve on the Council, committees and outside bodies
- to listen to and represent the views of their constituents
- to get involved with and to lead the community and
- to deal with individual ward-based queries
Councillors welcome contact with local residents and businesses and your views are vital to them to enable them to improve local services and to transform Warrington. You can contact councillors by telephone, email or letter, or meet them face to face.
- Councillor contact details (summary)
- Councillors details - portraits, committees and outside bodies membership (link to CMIS)
Note: CMIS is the Council's Committee Management Information System.
How do I find out about my councillor?
If you know your councillor's name click here.
If you know which ward you live in click here. [PDF]
If you don't know your councillor's name, or which ward you live in click here. [PDF - 18.7MB]
Political make up of the Council
Political control of the Council is shared in an alliance between the Liberal Democrat Group and the Conservative Group. The Labour Group are in Opposition.
The breakdown of seats is as follows:-
- Conservative - 7
- Labour - 22
- Liberal Democrat - 28
Key political roles
- Leader of the Council - Cllr Ian Marks (Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group)
- Deputy leader of the Council - Cllr Keith Bland (Leader of the Conservative Group)
- Leader of the opposition - Cllr Terry O'Neill (Leader of the Labour Group)
- Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat Group - Cllr Roy Smith
- Deputy leader of the Conservative Group - Cllr Les Hoyle
- Deputy leader of the Labour Group - Cllr Mike Hannon
Parish councils
Some parts of the borough are served by parish or town councils, who also have elected councillors to represent the views of their residents. There are 18 parish/town councils in Warrington as follows:
- Appleton
- Birchwood Town Council
- Burtonwood and Westbrook
- Croft
- Cuerdley
- Culcheth and Glazebrook
- Grappenhall and Thelwall
- Great Sankey
- Hatton
- Lymm
- Penketh
- Poulton-with-Fearnhead
- Rixton-with-Glazebrook
- Stockton Heath
- Stretton
- Walton
- Winwick
- Woolston
For more information about parish councillors you should contact the clerk to the parish or town council.
