Southend-on-Sea City Council

Southend-on-Sea City Council
Type
Type	Unitary authority
Leadership
Mayor	Ron Woodley, Independent since 9 May 2024
Leader	Daniel Cowan, Labour since 20 May 2024
Chief Executive	Colin Ansell since 5 February 2024
Structure
Seats	51 councillors
Political groups	Administration (28)   Labour (19)   "Independent Group" (5)   Liberal Democrats (4) Other parties (23)   Conservative (16)   Reform UK (2)   Green (2)   Non-Aligned Independent (3)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	2 May 2024
Next election	7 May 2026
Meeting place
Civic Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6ER
Website
www.southend.gov.uk

Southend-on-Sea City Council is the local authority of the city of Southend-on-Sea, in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. Southend has had an elected local authority since 1866, which has been reformed several times. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council; it is independent from Essex County Council

The council has been under no overall control since 2019. Since 2024 it has been led by a coalition of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and some of the independent councillors. It is based at Southend Civic Centre.