Council meets at Niagara Region Headquarters in Thorold, Ontario.
The next election was held in October 2018, and the council's composition is reviewed and updated accordingly.
While any eligible voter in the region can be considered for the position, the regional policy typically selects the chair from among the 30 council members elected in the previous municipal elections.
[2] On January 25, 18 delegates were slated to speak to request that the council be lit in the colours of the Palestinian flag in solidarity with community members who had loved ones killed in Gaza.
[3] On July 25, Niagara Regional Council passed a motion banning the display of signage within the council chambers following a months long spectacle with pro-Palestinian supporters in which the council refused to light the chambers in the colours of the Palestinian flag as was done for Israel.