Borough of Harrogate

The Borough of Harrogate is a local government district and borough of North Yorkshire, England. Its population at the census of 2011 was 157,869.^[2] Its council is based in the town of Harrogate, but it also includes surrounding towns and villages and almost all of the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is the most populous district of North Yorkshire. The district is part of the Leeds City Region.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Masham and Wath rural districts, and part of Thirsk Rural District, from the North Riding of Yorkshire, along with the boroughs of Harrogate and the city of Ripon, the Knaresborough urban district, Nidderdale Rural District, Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District, part of Wetherby Rural District and part of Wharfedale Rural District, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

On 1 April 1996 the parishes of Nether Poppleton, Upper Poppleton, Hessay and Rufforth were transferred from the district to become part of the new York unitary authority. According to the 2001 census these parishes had a population of 5,169.

Politics

Elections to the borough council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 54 seats on the council being elected at each election. After being under no overall control from the 2006 election, the Conservative party gained a majority at the 2010 election.

Following the United Kingdom local elections, 2016 and subsequent by-elections,^[3] the political composition of Harrogate is as follows:

Year	Conservative	Liberal Democrat	Independent
2016	37	10	7

The district is divided between two parliamentary constituencies: the whole of Harrogate and Knaresborough and the eastern part of Skipton and Ripon.

Towns

By population:
1. Harrogate
2. Ripon (city)
3. Knaresborough
4. Boroughbridge
5. Pateley Bridge
6. Masham

Historical sites

References

↑ "Resident Population Estimates by Ethnic Group (Percentages); Mid-2005 Population Estimates". National Statistics Online. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
↑ "Non-Metropolitan district population 2011". -Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
↑ https://localdemocracy.harrogate.gov.uk/summary.asp

Districts of Yorkshire and the Humber
Lincolnshire	North Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire
North Yorkshire	Craven Hambleton Harrogate Richmondshire Ryedale Scarborough Selby York
South Yorkshire	Barnsley Doncaster Rotherham Sheffield
West Yorkshire	Bradford Calderdale Kirklees Leeds Wakefield
East Riding of Yorkshire	East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull

Ceremonial county of North Yorkshire
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Unitary authorities	Middlesbrough Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees (part) City of York
Boroughs or districts	Craven Hambleton Harrogate Richmondshire Ryedale Scarborough Selby
Major settlements	Bedale Bentham Boroughbridge Catterick Garrison Colburn Easingwold Eston Filey Grassington Guisborough Harrogate Hawes Haxby Helmsley Ingleby Barwick Kirkbymoorside Knaresborough Leyburn Loftus Malton Masham Middleham Middlesbrough Northallerton Norton-on-Derwent Pateley Bridge Pickering Redcar Richmond Ripon Saltburn-by-the-Sea Scarborough Selby Settle Skelton-in-Cleveland Skipton South Bank Stokesley Tadcaster Thirsk Thornaby-on-Tees Whitby Yarm York See also: List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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Coordinates: 53°59′25″N 1°32′28″W / 53.99028°N 1.54111°W / 53.99028; -1.54111

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