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Rutland County Council is a unitary authority responsible for local government in the historic county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The current Council was created in April 1997.
Formally it is a unitary district with the full legal title of Rutland County Council District Council. As a unitary authority, the council is responsible for almost all local services in Rutland, with the exception of the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and Leicestershire Constabulary, which are run by joint boards with Leicestershire County Council and Leicester City Council.
The unitary is seen as a re-creation of the Rutland County Council that was established in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888 and ended in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, when Rutland was reconstituted as a district of Leicestershire. The Local Government Commission for England in 1994 recommended that Rutland District (and Leicester City) should become unitaries and leave the two-tier Leicestershire.[1] Rutland unitary authority came into existence on 1 April 1997.[2]
The Council consists of 26 councillors, representing sixteen electoral wards of the county. It has all-out elections on a four-year cycle and follows a district pattern, with elections held in May 2007[3] and May 2011.
The ceremonial head of the Council is the Chairman, and the executive follows the leader and cabinet model.
The current council is led by the Conservatives, with an opposition of Independents, UKIP, and Liberal Democrats.
The political composition is as follows.
Rutland County Council election, 2011
The county is divided into electoral wards, returning one, two or three councillors. The current wards were first adopted for the 2003 local elections.
Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Isle of Wight, Cambridgeshire
David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Labour Party (UK), United Kingdom
Devon, Isles of Scilly, Cornish language, Brittany, Truro
Hampshire, English Channel, Isle of Wight Festival, Cornwall, West Sussex
Bedfordshire, Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable, Berlin, England
Rutland, Oakham, England, Flag Institute, William the Conqueror
Leicestershire, Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency), Harborough (UK Parliament constituency), Bosworth (UK Parliament constituency), Rutland
Labour Party (UK), Conservative Party (UK), Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party, Nigel Farage
Central Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Luton, Wiltshire
Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Luton, Wiltshire, Borough of Halton