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The New Orleans City Council is the legislative branch of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.Established in 1954 through a home rule charter, it replaced the city’s previous commission form of government created under the 1912 Charter.
The New Orleans government operates both a fire department and the New Orleans Emergency Medical Services. New Orleans is the only city in Louisiana that refuses to pay court-ordered judgements when it loses a case that were awarded to the other party. [246]
Orleans Parish: 071: New Orleans: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Today coterminous with the City of New Orleans. Named after Philippe, Duke of Orléans, the regent of France 364,136: 350 sq mi (906 km 2) Ouachita Parish: 073: Monroe: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. The Ouachita Native American people 157,568: 633 sq mi (1,639 km ...
Map showing the first 11 Wards of New Orleans, c. 1870 or before. Most of the boundaries of Wards 1 through 11 were drawn in 1852 when the city was reorganized from three separate municipalities into one centralized government. [2] With various changes, these boundaries remain largely the same, and have not changed at all since the 1880s. [1]
The 2025 New Orleans mayoral election will be held on October 11, 2025, to elect the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana. Under the Louisiana primary system, all candidates will appear on the same ballot regardless of party. If none manage to achieve a majority of the vote, a runoff is scheduled to be held on November 15 between the top-two candidates.
The political balance in Louisiana was heavily affected by the post-Hurricane Katrina departure from New Orleans. Heavily Democratic New Orleans lost some 1/3 of its population. The overall effect reduced the Democrats' base of support in the state and turned Louisiana into a Republican-leaning state thereafter. New Orleans remained Democratic ...
The city of New Orleans and the parish of Orleans operate as a merged city-parish government. Before the city of New Orleans became co-extensive with Orleans Parish (or before it annexed towns from what used to be Jefferson Parish), the area was home to numerous smaller communities. The original city of New Orleans was composed of what are now ...
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [3] or simply Greater New Orleans (French: Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Spanish: Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties ...