Raleigh City Council is the governing body for the city of Raleigh

Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

, the state capital of North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

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Raleigh is governed by council-manager government

Council-manager government

The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of municipal government in the United States; the other common form of local government is the mayor-council government form, which characteristically occurs in large cities...

. It is composed of eight members, including the Mayor of Raleigh

Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina

The mayor of Raleigh is the mayor of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, in the United States. Raleigh operates with council-manager government, under which the mayor is elected separately from Raleigh City Council, of which he is the eighth member....

. Five of the members are elected from the five districts that cover the city. The remaining three, including the mayor, are elected at-large

At-Large

At-large is a designation for representative members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body , rather than a subset of that membership...

. They are all elected every two years.

Members

• Charles Meeker
  Charles Meeker
  Charles Carpenter Meeker is the Democratic mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He was first elected in 2001 over Republican Paul Coble, and reelected for a fifth two-year term in 2009. A fifth term tied Meeker with Avery C. Upchurch as Raleigh's longest-serving mayor...
  
   (mayor)
• Mary-Ann Baldwin (at-large)
• Russ Stephenson (at-large)
• Nancy McFarlane (District A)
• John Odom (District B)
• Eugene Weeks (District C)
• Thomas Crowder (District D)
• Bonner Gaylord (District E)