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East Midlands

Councils in East Midlands working together on things that cross their borders, led by a mayor everyone in the area can vote for.

East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) is a Mayoral Strategic Authority with the functions and funding associated with that tier.

The mayor

Claire Ward Labour and Co-operative Party

Elected on 2 May 2024.

Source: Democracy Club, Mayor of East Midlands Combined County Authority (CC BY 4.0), read 26 October 2026. This is who won the most recent mayoral election; if the post has changed hands since without an election, this page won’t know yet.

Next mayoral election: Democracy Club hasn’t listed it yet.

What the government says about the next election

The Mayor is elected on a 4 year term. The most recent election was in 2024 with the next election scheduled for 2028. This will be done by Supplementary Vote, as will further elections.

What it decides

The law gives every authority of this kind powers under these headings:

Headings as printed in the government’s Devolution Framework Explainer: Mayoral Strategic Authorities (Open Government Licence v3.0), which lists each power under them. Which of them this authority uses, and how, is in its own papers.

Do all combined authorities do the same things?

The specifics of the powers of MSAs vary from place to place but typically include aspects of transport, skills, housing, and local infrastructure investment, and in some cases spatial planning, policing, health and employment support.

Police

EMCCA has conterminous borders with two police forces when taken together. The Bill will allow the Mayor to take on the Police and Crime Commissioner functions over both areas with the appointment of a Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime for each police force area. The transfer of PCC functions is subject to secondary legislation.

Fire and rescue

EMCCA has coterminous borders with two Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) when taken together. We will explore options to merge the two FRAs and for EMCCA to become the FRA for the area, this would be subject to separate secondary legislation.

What’s different about how it is run

EMCCA will continue to have different governance arrangements when it comes to transport and local infrastructure functions. A number of EMCCA’s public transport powers are also held concurrently with its constituent councils. This is to allow the continued operation of the Nottingham tram as well as Nottingham City Council’s operation of its Nottingham City Transport bus service. Ordinarily, these functions would be held solely by the Strategic Authority.

EMCCA will also retain some different functions in relation to public health; bus operator grants; workplace parking levy schemes; and permit schemes.

Councils in its area

Its constituent councils are Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Every council in its area:

From the ONS Open Geography Portal, Local Authority District to Combined Authority lookup (LAD25_CAUTH25_EN_LU) (Open Government Licence v3.0), read 26 October 2026. A county council is listed when every district in it is in the authority and the government’s factsheet names it as a member.

Website
eastmidlands-cca.gov.uk (from Wikidata)
Meetings and decisions
Governance (the link of that name on its home page, 26 October 2026)
Budget
Not yet read.
The mayor's page
The Mayor (the link of that name on its home page, 26 October 2026)
The mayor on Democracy Club
Claire Ward
Cite this page

Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

Every authority page has the same sections in the same order. Sources: MHCLG, English devolution: Area factsheets (Open Government Licence v3.0); MHCLG, Devolution Framework Explainers (Open Government Licence v3.0); ONS Open Geography Portal, Local Authority District to Combined Authority lookup (LAD25_CAUTH25_EN_LU) (Open Government Licence v3.0); ONS Open Geography Portal, Local Authority District to County and Unitary Authority lookup (LAD25_CTYUA25_EW_LU_v2) (Open Government Licence v3.0); Democracy Club, EveryElection (CC BY 4.0); Democracy Club candidates (CC BY 4.0); mySociety, UK Local Authorities, with WhatDoTheyKnow home pages (CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0); Wikidata, official website (P856) (CC0). Parish and town councils are not covered yet. Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.