Editing West Yorkshire (section)

==Governance==
{{see also|List of civil parishes in West Yorkshire}}
{| class = "wikitable"
!Body !! Headquarters
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|[[West Yorkshire Combined Authority]]||[[Leeds City Centre]]
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|[[West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service]]||[[Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire|Birkenshaw]]
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|[[West Yorkshire Joint Services]]||[[Morley, West Yorkshire|Morley]]
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|[[West Yorkshire Police]]||[[Wakefield]]
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|[[City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council]]||[[Bradford City Hall]]
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|[[Calderdale Council]]|| [[Halifax Town Hall]]
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|[[Kirklees Council]]||[[Huddersfield Town Hall]]
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|[[Leeds City Council]]||[[Leeds Civic Hall]]
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|[[Wakefield Council]]||[[County Hall, Wakefield]]
|}

[[West Yorkshire County Council]] was abolished in 1986 and its five districts effectively became [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]]. The metropolitan county, covering an area of {{convert|2029|km2|sqmi}}, continues to exist in law and as a geographic frame of reference.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gazetteer of the old and new geographies of the United Kingdom|url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/ons_geography/Gazetteer_v3.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20031223023527/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/ons_geography/Gazetteer_v3.pdf|archive-date=23 December 2003|access-date=14 December 2006|publisher=Office for National Statistics|page=48}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/metropolitan.asp|title= Metropolitan Counties and Districts|work= Beginners' Guide to UK Geography|publisher= [[Office for National Statistics]]|date= 17 September 2004|access-date= 11 January 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20020606075048/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/metropolitan.asp|archive-date= 6 June 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Yorkshire and Humber Counties|url=http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/your-area/yorkshire-humber.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202233240/http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/your-area/yorkshire-humber.cfm|archive-date=2 February 2007|access-date=14 February 2007|publisher=The Boundary Commission for England}}</ref>

Since 1 April 2014, West Yorkshire has been a [[combined authority]] area, with the local authorities pooling some functions over transport and regeneration as the [[West Yorkshire Combined Authority]]. The first [[Mayor of West Yorkshire]], [[Tracy Brabin]], was [[2021 West Yorkshire mayoral election|elected]] on 6 May 2021, following a devolution deal announced by the government in the [[2020 United Kingdom budget|March 2020 budget]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Devolution deal worth £1.8bn agreed |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51834313 |access-date=17 May 2020 |work=BBC News |date=11 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Beecham |first1=Richard |title=West Yorkshire mayor plans still on track for next May despite lockdown |url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/council/west-yorkshire-mayor-plans-still-track-next-may-despite-lockdown-2851817 |access-date=17 May 2020 |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=13 May 2020 }}</ref>

The conurbation of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and  Wakefield makes up the [[West Yorkshire Built-up Area]], which is the [[List of urban areas in the United Kingdom|fourth-largest in the United Kingdom]] and the largest within the [[Historic counties of England|historic county boundaries]] of [[Yorkshire]].

In Parliament, 13 out of 22 of West Yorkshire's MPs are [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] and 9 are Conservative. At local level, the councils are generally divided, apart from the Wakefield district, which has long been one of the safest Labour councils in the country.

Some services are provided across the county by [[West Yorkshire Joint Services]] and the [[West Yorkshire Police]] and [[West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service]] are also county-wide.