City-State Council (Leamouth)
Leamouth City-State Council | |
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| 1st Council | |
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| Leadership | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 17 members |
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Political groups | Government Co-op (9) Opposition Liberal (5) Green (2) Conservative (1) |
| Elections | |
| Limited voting system | |
Last election | 7 April 2020 |
Last election | 7 April 2024 |
| Meeting place | |
| Council House, Leamouth | |
Leamouth City-State Council is the municipal and national legislature of the city-state of Free City of Leamouth. The City-State Council passes and amends laws and regulations; approves the annual budget and taxation; appoints and removes the Chief Minister, ministers, presidents and members of committees; debates matters proposed by the Cabinet, by secretaries or by individual members. Members are also able to ask questions to find out information and to hold secretaries to account.
Functions
Under the election system, each voter was allowed to vote for ten members of the City-State Council. Due to the small area of Leamouth and its territorial continuity, precincts served only as polling places, not political units, and there are no electoral districts served by the members, who were instead elected "at large" to serve the territory as a whole.
The system lends itself to block voting - each of the parties or electoral coalitions tended to nominate a slate of ten candidates and encourage its supporters to vote for all of them. In most cases, the winning party or coalition would have all ten of its nominees elected, with the other seven elected members coming from the second-place party.
Current membership
The 17 Members of the City-State Council, as of the most recent election, are:
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