Combined authority · E47000003 · ONS CAUTH
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Mayor of West Yorkshire
Strategic / metro mayor layer only. Constituent councils below are Watchtower CTYUA pages — their debt and crime figures are not this authority’s. Ceremonial civic mayors are out of scope.
LabourMayor
Tracy Brabin
Mayor of West Yorkshire
Party
Labour
As published
Last election
2 May 2024
Next election
2028
Powers tier
Established Mayoral Strategic Authority
GOV.UK devolution factsheets (July 2025): elected mayor plus the Established Mayoral tier (including integrated settlement where named).
Police and Crime Commissioner functions for West Yorkshire sit with this mayor (GOV.UK factsheets).
Elections
- Last
- 2 May 2024 (ordinary)
Constituent councils in Watchtower
Upper-tier, unitary and London borough pages that already exist in this snapshot. Combined authorities do not replace those councils.
- Bradford · Metropolitan borough
- Calderdale · Metropolitan borough
- Kirklees · Metropolitan borough
- Leeds · Metropolitan borough
- Wakefield · Metropolitan borough
Sources
- House of Commons Library — Directly-elected mayors (SN05000) · as of 11 May 2026
- MHCLG — English devolution: Area factsheets · as of 10 Jul 2025
- ONS Open Geography — Combined Authorities (May 2025) Names and Codes in EN · as of 1 May 2025
Source: Curated Watchtower mayors snapshot. As of 14 Sept 2026.