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Councillors - information and advice
Councillors are elected by local people to represent their interests within the Council's decision making process. The City Council consists of 50 Councillors, sometimes referred to Elected Members, who represent 20 City Wards with an overall electorate of just over 70,000.
The current Leader of the Council is Councillor Fraser Reynolds.
Set out below is the current list of City Councillors. If you are unsure as to in which Ward you live, you can follow this link to find a postcode search which lists local elected Members for an area.
| Bearpark and Witton Gilbert | Arnold Simpson |
| Bearpark and Witton Gilbert | Fraser Reynolds |
| Bearpark and Witton Gilbert | Redvers Frederick Crooks |
| Belmont | Arthur Walker |
| Belmont | Eric Mavin |
| Brancepeth, Langley Moor and Meadowfield | Denis Edwin Jackson |
| Brancepeth, Langley Moor and Meadowfield | Maureen Smith |
| Brandon | James Bartle |
| Brandon | John Alexander Turnbull |
| Brandon | Paul Taylor |
| Carrville and Gilesgate Moor | Alexander Leslie Thomson |
| Carrville and Gilesgate Moor | Barbara Howarth |
| Carrville and Gilesgate Moor | Dennis James Southwell |
| Cassop-cum-Quarrington | George Hodgson Marsden |
| Cassop-cum-Quarrington | John Herbert Kelly |
| Cassop-cum-Quarrington | Maggie Robinson |
| Coxhoe | Dennis Smith |
| Coxhoe | Maria Leina Plews |
| Coxhoe | Stephen Terrence McDonnell |
| Crossgate and Framwelgate | James Grenville Holland |
| Crossgate and Framwelgate | Jeffrey Bainbridge Young |
| Crossgate and Framwelgate | Robert William Wynn |
| Deerness | John Wilkinson |
| Deerness | Paul Guy |
| Elvet | Meg Norman |
| Elvet | Nigel van Zwanenberg |
| Elvet | Sue Pitts |
| Framwellgate Moor | Jeff Lodge MBE |
| Framwellgate Moor | Mark Wilkes |
| Framwellgate Moor | Terry Moderate |
| Nevilles Cross | Nigel Martin |
| Nevilles Cross | Ronald Gardiner Dickie |
| New Brancepeth and Ushaw Moor | David Bell |
| New Brancepeth and Ushaw Moor | John George Cowper |
| New Brancepeth and Ushaw Moor | Philip Stoddart |
| Newton Hall North | Amanda Hopgood |
| Newton Hall North | Mamie Simmons |
| Newton Hall South | Brian Kinghorn |
| Newton Hall South | Philip Wolstenholme |
| Pelaw and Gilesgate | Peter J Mitchell |
| Pelaw and Gilesgate | Stephen Laverick |
| Pittington and West Rainton | Kathleen Margaret Carr |
| Pittington and West Rainton | William Kellett |
| Shadforth and Sherburn | Brian Colledge |
| Shadforth and Sherburn | Carol Woods |
| Shadforth and Sherburn | Stuart Walton |
| Shincliffe | John George Taylor Lightley |
| St Nicholas | Anji Rae |
| St Nicholas | David Freeman |