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Katowice City Council

local government body in Katowice, Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ131686416 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Katowice City Council is the governing body of Katowice. The council has 28 elected members elected every five years in an election by city voters through a secret ballot. The election of City Council and the local head of government, which takes place at the same time, is based on legislation introduced on 20 June 2002.

Members of the Katowice City Council

Election results

2024

All 28 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2024 election.

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“Katowice City Council” enters the record as local government body in Katowice, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Katowice, City and Council can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Katowice City Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.