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the Flag of East Sussex. East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Kent to the northeast, West Sussex to the west, Surrey to the northwest, and the English Channel to the south. The largest settlement is the city of Brighton and Hove, and the county town is Lewes.
Local government was reformed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, which made East Sussex a non-metropolitan county. As part of the 1974 reforms it ceded the Mid Sussex area (including Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath ) to West Sussex , but gained the three former county boroughs of Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings.
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of East Sussex in South East England. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.
For local government purposes, East Sussex comprises a non-metropolitan county, with five districts, and the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove. East Sussex and West Sussex historically formed a single county, Sussex. The northeast of East Sussex is part of the Weald, a sandstone anticline that was once an extensive woodland. The highest ...
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine East Sussex with West Sussex as a sub-region of the South East Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named ...
The coat of arms of East Sussex. East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex and, to the south, by the English Channel. The ancient kingdom of Sussex had separate county administrations since the 12th century, with the county town of the eastern division being Lewes.
Brighton and Hove City Council is the local authority for Brighton and Hove, a local government district with city status in the ceremonial county of East Sussex, England.The council is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council.
South East England portal; The administrative county of East Sussex is divided into two tiers: five local government districts, forming the second tier of government in England; each district also has within it civil parishes, the third tier.