Editing Gloucestershire (section)

==Governance==
Gloucestershire is a ceremonial county in South West England. [[Gloucestershire County Council]]'s 53 seats are majority-controlled by the Conservatives, though the Liberal Democrats have a sizeable presence on the council.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-06 |title=Election results by party, 6 May 2021 |url=https://glostext.gloucestershire.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=12 |access-date=2021-06-09 |website=Gloucestershire County Council}}</ref> The Council Leader is Mark Hawthorne. The County Council shares responsibility with six district councils: Tewkesbury, Forest of Dean, City of Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and Cotswold.

The southernmost part of the county, South Gloucestershire is governed by [[South Gloucestershire Council]], which is a [[unitary authority]] council independent of the county council but the unitary authority is still part of the ceremonial county. Previously, the area of South Gloucestershire was part of the county of Avon. Although Avon was abolished in 1996, some services in South Gloucestershire are still provided in conjunction with other former parts of Avon county, such as the [[Avon Fire and Rescue Service]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About us |url=http://www.avonfire.gov.uk/about-us |access-date=12 May 2016 |website=Avon Fire & Rescue}}</ref> Since 2017, South Gloucestershire has been part of the [[West of England Combined Authority]], which is under the directly elected mayor [[Dan Norris]].<ref name="bbc-20160316">{{cite news |date=16 March 2016 |title=West of England £1bn devolution deal announced in Budget |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35823771 |access-date=17 March 2016}}</ref>

There are six [[List of parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire|parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire]], all of which are Conservative controlled as of the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 general election]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Watson |first1=Christopher |last2=Uberoi |first2=Elise |last3=Loft |first3=Philip |date=2020-04-17 |title=General election results from 1918 to 2019 |url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8647/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417105325/https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8647/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |language=en-GB }}</ref> Due to the [[2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies]], Gloucestershire will be combined with Wiltshire for parliamentary boundary purposes, allowing cross-county electoral divisions.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-06-09 |title=Gloucestershire electoral boundary changes 'a dog's dinner' |language=en-GB |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-57398617 |access-date=2021-10-08}}</ref>