Combined authority · E47000009 · ONS CAUTH
West of England Combined Authority
Mayor of the West of England
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
Helen Godwin
Mayor of the West of England
Party
Labour
As published
Last election
1 May 2025
Next election
2029
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.
Elections
- Last
- 1 May 2025 (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.
- Bath and North East Somerset · Unitary authority
- Bristol, City of · Unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire · 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.