East Hertfordshire
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| East Hertfordshire District | |
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 Shown within Hertfordshire |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Region: | East of England |
| Admin. County: | Hertfordshire |
| Area: - Total |
Ranked 105th 475.69 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Bishop's Stortford |
| ONS code: | 26UD |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 139th 131,800 277 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 97.1% White |
| Politics | |
| East Herts Council http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| MPs: | Barbara Follett, Oliver Heald, Mark Prisk |
East Hertfordshire is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Bishop's Stortford. Other towns in the district include Hertfordshire's traditional county town, Hertford, and Buntingford, a town on the river Rib.
The district was formed on April 1, 1974, as a merger of the municipal borough of Hertford with Bishop's Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Ware urban districts, and Braughing Rural District, Ware Rural District and part of Hertford Rural District.
| Districts of the East of England |  |
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Babergh | Basildon | Bedford | Braintree | Breckland | Brentwood | Broadland | Broxbourne | Cambridge | Castle Point | Chelmsford | Colchester | Dacorum | East Cambridgeshire | East Hertfordshire | Epping Forest | Fenland | Forest Heath | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Hertsmere | Huntingdonshire | Ipswich | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | Luton | Maldon | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Suffolk | North Hertfordshire | North Norfolk | Norwich | Peterborough | Rochford | St Albans | St Edmundsbury | South Bedfordshire | South Cambridgeshire | Southend-on-Sea | South Norfolk | Stevenage | Suffolk Coastal | Tendring | Three Rivers | Thurrock | Uttlesford | Watford | Waveney | Welwyn Hatfield |
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Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk |
