Bristolians will be heading to the polls today (Thursday, May 5) to have their say on how the city is governed over the next decade.
People living within Bristol can vote to decide whether to scrap the mayoral system or to keep it. A majority of elected members of Bristol City Council backed a motion to hold a legally-binding second referendum to decide how the council should be run from 2024 onwards.
The vote will take place 10 years after the first referendum, which created the post of Mayor of Bristol in 2012. The referendum in May 2022 will offer Bristolians the choice of keeping an elected mayor or going back to the committee system of governance, which was in place prior to 2000.
