The Zaporizhzhia City Council (Ukrainian: Запорізька міська рада, Zaporiz’ka mis’ka rada) is a local government area that governs Zaporizhzhia, a city of regional significance located in southeast Ukraine.
The Zaporizhzhia City Council (and the city of Zaporizhzhia itself), is governed by a mayor, who is elected every four years in local Ukrainian elections.
The last election took place in 2015, and saw the election of independent candidate Volodymyr Buriak as mayor.
[4][5] The municipality's legislative branch is the city council, which consists of 90 locally-elected deputies.
[6] The Zaporizhzhia City Council contains a total of seven administrative raions (districts):[7] The former urban-type settlement of Teplychne (Ukrainian: Тепличне) was previously a settlement council and an administrative unit of the Shevchenko Raion, although it was annexed to Zaporizhzhia's city limits based on a resolution of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council dated 23 April 2009.