Some key dates ahead of the mayoral referendum next month have been released by the council.
Bristol will be going to the polls on Thursday, May 5, to decide whether to scrap the mayoral system after opposition councillors had a victory in City Hall in December 2021. 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 taking 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. The leader and cabinet system was in place between 2000 and 2012, before George Ferguson became the city’s first directly elected mayor in November 2012.
