Mayors in England - wikipedia Mayors in England In England, the offices of mayor and lord mayor have long been ceremonial posts, with few or no duties attached to them. In recent years they have doubled as more influential political roles while retaining the ceremonial functions. A mayor 's term of office denotes the municipal year. The most famous example is that of the Lord Mayor of the City of London. Traditionally mayors and provosts have been elected by town, borough and city councils. Since 2000, several districts now have directly elected mayors with extensive powers. See borough status in the United Kingdom for a list of English districts to have a borough charter ( and therefore a mayor ). The role of the chairman of a district council is exactly the same as the mayor of a borough council, and they have the same status as first citizen, after the Sovereign, in their district, but they are not addressed as mayor. Contents 1 Election 1.1 Direct election 2 Lord Mayors 3 Honorifics 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Election In England, where a borough or a city is a local government district or a civil parish, the mayor is elected annually by the council from their number and chairs meetings of the council with a casting vote. Where the mayoralty used to be associated with a local government district but that district has been abolished, Charter Trustees may be set up to provide continuity until a parish council may be set up. Where a parish council ( whether the successor of a former borough or not ) has resolved to style itself a Town Council, then its chairman is entitled to the designation Town Mayor, though in practice, the word Town is often dropped. Direct election In 2000 the Labour government led by Tony Blair passed a local government reform which changed this system somewhat. Several districts in England now have directly elected mayors with real powers and an advisory cabinet to assist them. Also since 2000, the area of Greater London has had a Greater London Authority headed by the Mayor of London. This is a separate post to the historic and honorific Lord Mayor of London and may be characterised as a strategic, regional, role rather than as anything analogous to previous local government in England. Lord Mayors Main article : List of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom The right to appoint a Lord Mayor is a rare honour, even less frequently bestowed than city status. Currently, 23 cities in England have Lord Mayors : Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Canterbury, Chester, Coventry, Exeter, Kingston upon Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Stoke - on - Trent, the City of Westminster and York. Honorifics The Lord Mayors of London and York are styled The Right Honourable, Bristol also uses the honorific although without official sanction. All other Lord Mayors, as well as the Mayors of cities and the original Cinque Ports ( Sandwich, Hythe, Dover, Romney and Hastings, are styled The Right Worshipful. All other Mayors are styled The Worshipful, though this is in practice seldom used for a Town Mayor. These honorific styles are used only before the Mayoral title and not before the name, and are not retained after the term of office. A mayor usually appoints a consort, usually a spouse, other family member or fellow councillor. The designated female consort of a mayor is called the mayoress and accompanies the mayor to civic functions. A female mayor is also called mayor, not, as sometime erroneously called, `` Lady Mayoress ''. A mayoress or Lady Mayoress is a female consort of a mayor or Lord Mayor ; a male consort of a mayor or Lord Mayor is a Mayor 's Consort or Lord Mayor 's Consort. ^ 1 The Lord Mayor of Bristol uses the prefix without official sanction. See also Local government in England Municipal year References Jump up ^ The Title of Lord Mayor -- Use of the Prefix `` Right Honourable '', The Times, 7 July 1932, p. 16 Jump up ^ `` Lord Mayor of Bristol ''. Bristol City Council. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2008. External links BBC article New Local Government Network English city and regional mayors 2017 hide Lists of lord mayors in the United Kingdom England Lord mayors Birmingham Bradford Bristol Canterbury Chester Coventry Exeter Kingston upon Hull Leeds Leicester Liverpool City of London Manchester Newcastle - upon - Tyne Norwich Nottingham Oxford Plymouth Portsmouth Sheffield Stoke - on - Trent Westminster York Wales Lord mayors Cardiff Swansea Scotland Lord provosts Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Northern Ireland Lord mayors Armagh Belfast Ireland ( pre-1922 ) Lord mayors Cork Dublin Lists of civic mayors ( excluding lord mayors ) in the United Kingdom England Mayors Barnsley Bath Bedford Bolton Carlisle Cambridge Chelsea Chesterfield Colchester Dartmouth Derby Devizes Doncaster Dover Dudley Faversham Finsbury Gloucester Havering Hereford Honiton Horwich Lewisham Lincoln Margate Medway Merton Newcastle - under - Lyme Newham Northampton Paddington Penzance Preston Reading Salford Salisbury Sheffield Shrewsbury Slough Stafford Totnes Tower Hamlets Wells Westminster Wigan Winchelsea Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Wales Mayors Monmouth Scotland Provosts Elgin Inverness Montrose Peterhead Northern Ireland Mayors Castlereagh Causeway Coast Coleraine ( to 2015 ) Craigavon Derry Derry and Strabane Larne Lisburn Lisburn and Castlereagh Newry Newtownabbey North Down Ireland ( pre-1922 ) Mayors Galway Waterford Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayors_in_England&oldid=821897412 '' Categories : Local government in the United Kingdom Ceremonial officers in the United Kingdom Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from September 2010 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 23 January 2018, at 07 : 10. 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Question: what do you call a female mayors husband
Answer: Mayor's Consort