The city council created under that charter consists of seventeen members.
For the seven at-large seats, each political party may only nominate five candidates and voters may only vote for five.
The result of this limited voting system is that at least two of the seven members elected will be from a different party than the other five.
Historically, this has resulted in the at-large seats being filled by five Democrats and two Republicans, but in recent elections the Working Families Party has also competed successfully for the two minority seats.
The Democratic party's dominance in the city has resulted in a body with little turnover from year to year, although there have been periods of widespread retirements from City Council, such as during the ABSCAM scandal of the 1980s, or the DROP controversy on the early 2010s.