Combined authority · E47000012 · ONS CAUTH

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

Mayor of York and North 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.

Labour

Mayor

David Skaith

Mayor of York and North Yorkshire

Party

Labour

As published

Last election

2 May 2024

Next election

2028

Powers tier

Mayoral Strategic Authority

GOV.UK devolution factsheets (July 2025): mayoral combined or combined county authority. Not named as Established at that factsheet date.

Police and crime plus fire and rescue functions sit with this mayor (GOV.UK factsheets).

Elections

Last: 2 May 2024 (ordinary)
Next: 2028 (ordinary); Calendar: next 2028 · last 2 May 2024

Constituent councils in Watchtower

Upper-tier, unitary and London borough pages that already exist in this snapshot. Combined authorities do not replace those councils.

York · Unitary authority
North Yorkshire · Unitary authority

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.

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