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Richmond Town Hall. Richmond is located in the eponymous district of Richmondshire, created under the Local Government Act 1972 by a merger of the municipal borough of Richmond with the rural districts of Richmond, Aysgarth, Leyburn, Reeth, and part of Croft.
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county and unitary authority area (legally known as the County of North Yorkshire), [4] in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It covers seven former districts : Craven , Hambleton , Harrogate , Scarborough , Richmondshire , Ryedale and Selby .
Richmond and Northallerton is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election , when it was won by Rishi Sunak , who was at the time leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United ...
In July 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that in April 2023, the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire would be reorganised into a unitary authority. On 1 April 2023, Richmondshire District Council was abolished and its functions transferred to a new unitary authority named North Yorkshire. [15] [16]
Richmondshire District Council was the administration body covering Richmondshire, a large area of the northern Yorkshire Dales including Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, Wensleydale and Coverdale, with Scots' Dyke and Scotch Corner at its centre. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972.
The council chamber ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Richmondshire District Council was formed at Swale House in Richmond in 1974. [14] [15] [16] However, it subsequently became the meeting place of Richmond Town Council. [17]
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire in Yorkshire and the Humber.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.
South Yorkshire: Richmond and Northallerton CC: 73,888 12,185 Rishi Sunak† Tom Wilson‡ North Yorkshire: Rother Valley CC: 69,460 998 Jake Richards‡ Alexander Stafford† South Yorkshire: Rotherham BC: 75,929 5,490 Sarah Champion‡ John Cronly# South Yorkshire: Scarborough and Whitby CC: 74,558 5,408 Alison Hume‡ Roberto Weeden-Sanz ...