| City Council of the Capiyal Royal City of Kraków | |
| Native Name: | Rada Stołecznego Królewskiego Miasta Krakowa |
| Coa Pic: | POL Kraków COA.svg |
| House Type: | Unicameral |
| Leader1 Type: | Chairman |
| Leader1: | Jakub Kosek |
| Party1: | KO |
| Leader2 Type: | Vice-Chairpersons |
| Leader2: | Iwona Chamielec, KO Michał Drewnicki, PiS Łukasz Maślona, KdM |
| Members: | 43 |
| Structure1: | File:9th Term of Kraków City Council.svg |
| Structure1 Res: | 250px |
| Voting System1: | Multi-member electoral districts with five-year terms |
| Last Election1: | 7 April 2024 |
| Next Election1: | 2029 |
| Session Room: | LaurKrakowabyVetulani.JPG |
| Session Res: | 200px |
| Meeting Place: | Wielopolski Palace |
The Kraków City Council is the governing body of Kraków. The council has forty-three elected members[1] elected every five years in an election by city voters through a secret ballot. The election of City Council and the local head of government,[2] which takes place at the same time, is based on legislation introduced on 20 June 2002.
| Council | Term of office | Name | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1990-1993 | Kazimierz Barczyk | Solidarity Citizens' Committee | ||
| 1993-1994 | Tadeusz Kołaczyk | ||||
| 2nd | 1994-2002 | Stanisław Handzlik | Freedom Union | ||
| 3rd | |||||
| 4th | 2002-2006 | Paweł Pytko | Law and Justice | ||
| 5th | 2006-2007 | Paweł Klimowicz | Civic Platform | ||
| 2007-2009 | Małgorzata Radwan-Ballada | ||||
| 2009-2010 | Józef Pilch | Law and Justice | |||
| 6th | 2010-2018 | Bogusław Kośmider | Civic Platform | ||
| 7th | |||||
| 8th | 2018-2022 | Dominik Jaśkowiec | |||
| 2022-2023 | Rafał Komarewicz | Poland 2050 | |||
| 9th | 2024-current | Jakub Kosek | Civic Platform | ||
| Party | District 1 | District 2 | District 3 | District 4 | District 5 | District 6 | District 7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Coalition | Dominik Jaśkowiec Anna Bałdyga Piotr Moskała Grzegorz Stawowy | Jakub Kosek Grzegorz Stawowy Aleksandra Kot Joanna Hańderek | Iwona Chamielec Tomasz Daros Renata Piętka Agnieszka Łętocha | Małgorzata Potocka Bogusław Kośmider Agnieszka Pogoda-Tota | Zbigniew Kożuch Grażyna Fijałkowska Alicja Szczepańska Tomasz Leśniak | Łukasz Sęk Edyta Sikora Marek Hohenauer | Bogumiła Drabik Magdalena Mazurkiewicz | ||
| Law and Justice | Agnieszka Paderewska | Maciej Michałowski | Michał Ciechowski Marek Sobieraj | Krzysztof Sułowski Mariusz Kękuś | Małgorzata Kot Aleksandra Witek | Michał Drewnicki Renata Kucharska | Włodzimierz Pietrus Edward Porębski | ||
| Kraków for Citizens | Łukasz Maślona | Aleksandra Owca | Łukasz Gibała | Michał Starobrat | Rafał Zawiślak | Rafał Nowak | Eliza Dydyńska-Czesak | ||
All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2024 election.
All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2018 election.
All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2014 election.
All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2010 election.
All 43 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2006 election.
All seats on the city council were being contested in the 2002 election. The number of seats was lowered from 75 to 43.
All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1998 election.
All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1994 election.
All seats on the city council were being contested in the 1990 election.