Ward (electoral subdivision)

In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to the area (e.g. William Morris Ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England).

[1] The word was much later applied to divisions of other cities and towns in England and Wales and Ireland.

In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and the United States, wards are an electoral district, within a district or municipality, used in local government elections.

[3][4] In Bangladesh wards are subdivisions of a city or town which administrates under City Corporations and municipalities (pourashova) In East Africa, the word ward used in English is translated into Swahili/Kiswahili as Kata.

In the case of a municipal amalgamation, the former cities and towns that make up the new metropolis may be referred to as wards.

Centre (No. 5) and West (No. 6) wards in Cork , Ireland, were defined in 1853 and last used for elections in 1914. The boundary ran down the middle of Castle Street, where nameplates remained in site in 2022.
Boundary marker in Dublin of the North City Ward