Editing Wetherby (section)

==Governance==
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| name          = Wetherby Town Council
| coa_pic       = Wetherbycoatofarms.jpg
| coa_caption   = [[Coat of arms]]
|motto= "Imperium in Imperio"<br />("One government within another.")<ref name=Herald>{{cite web |title=West Riding Civic Heraldry |publisher=Civic Heraldry |url=http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/wriding_ob.html}}</ref>
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| house_type    = Town Council
| website        = {{URL|https://www.wetherby.co.uk}}
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| meeting_place=[[File:Wetherby Town Hall 001.jpg|thumb|]] [[Wetherby Town Hall]]
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Since 2010, Wetherby has been in the [[Elmet and Rothwell (UK Parliament constituency)|Elmet and Rothwell]] constituency, a [[marginal seat]]. The town's MP is [[Alec Shelbrooke]], a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], who has his constituency offices in the town. [[Wetherby (ward)|Wetherby]] is an [[electoral ward]] of [[Leeds City Council]] and has a town council responsible for amenities, such as parks.

The [[coat of arms]] transferred over from the former [[Wetherby Rural District|Wetherby Rural District Council]]; it was the first such arms to be granted by the [[College of Arms]] to a [[rural district]] council, on 7 January 1938.<ref name=Herald/>

===Crime and law enforcement===
[[West Yorkshire Police]] have a station in Boston Road.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/leeds |title=Welcome to Leeds |publisher=West Yorkshire Police |access-date=27 February 2017}}</ref>

===Twinnings===
* {{flagicon|France}} – [[Privas]], France