Council of Paris Conseil de Paris
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Mayor of Paris	Anne Hidalgo, PS since 5 April 2014
Secretaries	Paul Hatte (the youngest councillor),Alice Timsit,Céline Hervieu andRaphaëlle Rémy-Leleu
Structure
Seats	163
Political groups	Government:(94)  PS (54)  EELV (23)  PCF (11)  G.s (6) Opposition:(66)  LR (55)  LREM (6)  MoDem (5) Others:(3)   Non-Inscrits (3)
Length of term	6 years
Elections
Voting system	Party-list proportional representation
Last election	15 March & 28 June 2020
Next election	2026
Meeting place
Hôtel de Ville de Paris
Website
Le Conseil de Paris

TheCouncil of Paris (French:Conseil de Paris,[kɔ̃sɛjd(ə)paʁi]) is thedeliberative body responsible for governingParis, the capital ofFrance. It possesses both the powers of amunicipal council (conseil municipal) and those of adepartmental council (conseil départemental) for thedépartement de Paris, as defined by the so-called PLM Law (Loi PLM) of 1982 that redefined the governance of Paris,Lyon andMarseille (hence the PLMacronym). Paris is the onlyterritorial collectivity in France to be both acommune and adépartement.

TheMayor of Paris presides over the Council of Paris and therefore holds the powers of mayor and of president of the departmental council. There are currently163 councillors for Paris.^[1]

Although the history of Paris spans millennia, that of its municipal government, in its present form, is less than half a century old. Paris and its environs were always governed directly by the highest Frenchpolity of the time: the Crown before theFrench Revolution, and a state-appointedpréfet (governing theSeinedépartement) afterwards. The office of mayor of Paris existed for brief periods during the 18th and 19th centuries, but was not an institution of government before 1977.^{[citation needed]}

From the creation of the mayoral office in 1977 until 2019, Paris functioned as both acommune and as adépartement, and had a unique method for governing both; the Council of Paris, with the Mayor of Paris as its president, met either as a municipal council (conseil municipal) or as a departmental council (conseil général/conseil départemental) depending on the issue to be debated.

In 2017, theNational Assembly passed a law merging the functions of the commune and department into the City of Paris (Ville de Paris), which came into effect on 1 January 2019.^[2]

The modern administrative organization of Paris still retains some traces of its previous incarnation as the government of theSeinedépartement. France's national government still controls theParis Police Prefecture (Préfecture de police), which also has authority over theParis Fire Brigade, for example, and has jurisdiction extending to thepetite couronne (small corona or halo) of Paris, the three borderingdépartements (Seine-Saint-Denis,Hauts de Seine, andVal de Marne) for some operations such as fire protection andrescue operations. Paris has no municipal police force, although it does have its own brigade oftraffic wardens.^[2]

The commune is divided into 17electoral districts representing the 20municipal arrondissements (arrondissements municipaux) in which voters simultaneously elect members of the district council (conseil d'arrondissement) and city council (conseil municipal). After the 2020 municipal election, arrondissements1,2,3 &4 were merged into a single electoral district called "Paris Centre".^[3] No district elects fewer than 10 district members and 3 council members, nor more than 40 district members and 18 council members. There are 354 district council members and 163 council members in all.^[4] A number of members from each district council — roughly half the seats in each council, as well as those at the top of the party lists in those districts — are elected to and simultaneously serve as city council members, forming themunicipal council called the Council of Paris. The council elects theMayor of Paris the week after the municipal election, requiring anabsolute majority of councillors in the first or second round, or by a plurality in the third round if necessary.^[3][4]

The districts and city council are elected usingclosedparty-list proportional representation in atwo-round system with amajority bonus.^[4] A party list which garners anabsolute majority in the first round of an election in which at least 25% of registered voters participates automatically wins half of all seats in the arrondissement, with the remaining half distributed proportionally using theD'Hondt method to all lists receiving over 5% of the vote, including the winning list.^[4][5] If no party list meets these requirements in the first round, a second round is scheduled a week later. All lists which have won over 10% of the vote in the first round are qualified to run in the second.^[4] In addition, any other lists which have won at least 5% of the vote in the first round can merge with qualified lists for the second, but are not required to do so.^[4] In the second round, only aplurality is needed to win the majority bonus.^[4] This electoral system means a party list may receive a majority of seats in an arrondissement without winning an absolute majority of votes.

This table summarises the 163 councillors elected in the2014 Paris municipal election.^[6]

See thelist of Paris councillors for the full list.

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