Editing London Borough of Hackney (section)

==Governance==
{{main|Hackney London Borough Council}}
[[File:Hackney town hall 1.jpg|thumb|[[Hackney Town Hall]] was built in the 1930s for the former [[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney]].]]
The local authority is Hackney Council, which meets at [[Hackney Town Hall]] and has its main offices in the adjoining Hackney Service Centre. Since 2002 the council has been led by the directly elected [[Mayor of Hackney]]. A [[Speaker (politics)|speaker]] fulfils the civic and ceremonial duties previously undertaken by the (non-political) mayor prior to 2002.<ref>[http://www.hackney.gov.uk/l-speakerwhat.htm ''The Speaker of Hackney Council'']. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120084847/http://www.hackney.gov.uk/l-speakerwhat.htm |date=20 November 2008|access-date= 27 May 2010}}.</ref>

===Greater London representation===
Since 2000, for elections to the [[London Assembly]], the borough forms part of the [[North East (London Assembly constituency)|North East]] constituency. The constituency returned [[Sem Moema]] AM as the directly elected Assembly Member in 2021.

===UK Parliament===
The borough comprises two parliamentary constituencies: [[Hackney North and Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)|Hackney North and Stoke Newington]] (represented by [[Diane Abbott]] MP) and [[Hackney South and Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)|Hackney South and Shoreditch]] (represented by [[Meg Hillier]] MP); both are [[Privy Counsellor]]s and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] Members of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]]. Final recommendations for a change to the boundaries of these two constituencies were published by the Boundary Commission in July 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/2023-review/2023-review-volume-one-report/the-2023-review-of-parliamentary-constituency-boundaries-in-england-volume-one-report-london/page/4/|last=Boundary Commission for England|title=The 2023 review of parliamentary constituency boundaries in England - volume one: report - London|date=2023|accessdate=22 November 2023}}</ref>