East Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire District
Shown within Hertfordshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Hertfordshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 105th 475.69 km²
Admin. HQ:	Bishop's Stortford
ONS code:	26UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 139th 131,800 277 / km²
Ethnicity:	97.1% White
Politics
East Herts Council http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Barbara Follett, Oliver Heald, Mark Prisk

East Hertfordshire is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Bishop's Stortford. Other towns in the district include Hertfordshire's traditional county town, Hertford, and Buntingford, a town on the river Rib.

The district was formed on April 1, 1974, as a merger of the municipal borough of Hertford with Bishop's Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Ware urban districts, and Braughing Rural District, Ware Rural District and part of Hertford Rural District.

Districts of the East of England
Babergh \| Basildon \| Bedford \| Braintree \| Breckland \| Brentwood \| Broadland \| Broxbourne \| Cambridge \| Castle Point \| Chelmsford \| Colchester \| Dacorum \| East Cambridgeshire \| East Hertfordshire \| Epping Forest \| Fenland \| Forest Heath \| Great Yarmouth \| Harlow \| Hertsmere \| Huntingdonshire \| Ipswich \| King's Lynn and West Norfolk \| Luton \| Maldon \| Mid Bedfordshire \| Mid Suffolk \| North Hertfordshire \| North Norfolk \| Norwich \| Peterborough \| Rochford \| St Albans \| St Edmundsbury \| South Bedfordshire \| South Cambridgeshire \| Southend-on-Sea \| South Norfolk \| Stevenage \| Suffolk Coastal \| Tendring \| Three Rivers \| Thurrock \| Uttlesford \| Watford \| Waveney \| Welwyn Hatfield
Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk