The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council.
Leeds City Council divides the city into ten "Management areas" (Inner and Outer areas of North West, North East, East, South and West), which are included in this table to give a way to sort places into those ten geographical groups.
[3] The city's current boundaries came into being on 1 April 1974, set by the Local Government Act 1972.
Before this, there existed a smaller County Borough of Leeds, and parts of today's city were in various other administrative areas.
Leeds includes part or all of the former Municipal Boroughs of Morley and Pudsey, the Rural Districts of Tadcaster, Wetherby and Wharfedale, and the Urban Districts of Aireborough, Garforth, Horsforth, Otley and Rothwell.