Editing Edinburgh (section)

===Government===
[[File:Edinburgh - 2016 - panoramio - StevenL (9).jpg|thumb|right|[[Edinburgh City Chambers]] is the headquarters of the [[City of Edinburgh Council]].]]

Following local government reorganisation in 1996, the City of Edinburgh Council constitutes one of the [[Council areas of Scotland|32 council areas of Scotland]].<ref name="act">{{Cite web |date=3 November 1994 |title=Schedule 1 – New Local Government Areas – Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/39/contents#sch1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128060111/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/39/contents#sch1 |archive-date=28 January 2013 |access-date=12 February 2013 |publisher=Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI)}}</ref> Like all other [[local authorities of Scotland]], the council has powers over most matters of local administration such as housing, planning, [[Transport in Edinburgh|local transport]], parks, economic development and regeneration.<ref name="act1">{{Cite web |date=3 November 1994 |title=Chapter 6 – Functions – Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 |url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/ukpga_19940039_en_4#pt1-ch6 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625212935/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/ukpga_19940039_en_4#pt1-ch6 |archive-date=25 June 2008 |access-date=8 June 2008 |publisher=Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI)}}</ref> The council comprises 63 elected [[councillor]]s, returned from 17 [[Wards of the United Kingdom|multi-member electoral wards]] in the city.<ref name="councillors">{{Cite web |title=Councillors |url=http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/councillors |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201213730/http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/councillors |archive-date=1 February 2013 |access-date=12 February 2013 |publisher=City of Edinburgh Council}}</ref> Following the [[2007 City of Edinburgh Council election]] the incumbent [[Scottish Labour Party|Labour Party]] lost majority control of the council after 23 years to a [[Scottish Liberal Democrats|Liberal Democrat]]/[[Scottish National Party|SNP]] coalition.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 June 2007 |title=Nationalist negotiate coalition deals in some of Scotland's largest cities |url=http://www.citymayors.com/politics/scotland-election07.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125102245/http://citymayors.com/politics/scotland-election07.html |archive-date=25 November 2010 |access-date=16 January 2011 |publisher=CityMayors Politics}}</ref>

After the 2017 election, the SNP and Labour formed a coalition administration, which lasted until the next election in 2022. The [[2022 City of Edinburgh Council election]] resulted in the most politically balanced council in the UK, with 19 SNP, 13 Labour, 12 Liberal Democrat, 10 Green, and 9 Conservative councillors. A minority Labour administration was formed, being voted in by Scottish Conservative and Scottish Liberal Democrat councillors. The SNP and Greens presented a coalition agreement, but could not command a majority in the council. This caused controversy amongst the Scottish Labour Party group for forming an administration supported by Conservatives, and led to the suspension of two Labour councillors on the council for abstaining on the vote to approve the new administration.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2022 |title=Labour suspends councillors who abstained on vote that put their party into power |url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/two-edinburgh-labour-councillors-suspended-after-abstaining-on-vote-which-put-their-party-into-power-3748068 |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com |language=en}}</ref> The city's [[Coat of arms of Edinburgh|coat of arms]] was registered by the [[Lord Lyon King of Arms]] in 1732.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Urquhart |first=R M |title=Scottish Burgh and County Heraldry |publisher=Heraldry Today |year=1973 |isbn=978-0-900455-24-7 |location=London |page=9}}</ref>