Editing Gdańsk (section)

==Politics and local government==
{{Main|Politics of Gdańsk}}
[[File:Gdansk Urzad Marszalkowski.jpg|thumb|Pomeranian Voivodeship Office in Gdańsk]]

Contemporary Gdańsk is one of the major centres of economic and administrative life in Poland. It has been the seat of a Polish central institution, the [[Polish Space Agency]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C403961%2Cpolish-space-agency-may-launch-operations-in-gdansk-in-early-march.html |title=Polish Space Agency may launch operations in Gdańsk in early March |access-date=2 December 2022}}</ref> several supra-regional branches of further central institutions,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ulc.gov.pl/pl/aktualnosci/5326-informacja-dla-klientow-delegatury-polnocno-zachodniej-w-gdansku |title=nformacja dla klientów Delegatur w Gdańsku i we Wrocławiu |date=15 December 2020 |website=ulc.gov.pl |access-date=10 August 2024}}</ref> as well as the supra-regional (appellate-level) institutions of justice.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gdansk.sa.gov.pl/zasieg-terytorialny-apelacji-gdanskiej,m,m1,214,227 |title=Zasięg terytorialny apelacji gdańskiej |website=gdansk.sa.gov.pl |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref> As the capital of the [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]] it has been the seat of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Office, the Sejmik, and the Marshall's Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and other voivodeship-level institutions.<ref>{{cite act |title=Ustawa z dnia 24 lipca 1998 r. |date=24 July 1998 |institution=[[Sejm]] |at=Dz.U. 1998 nr 96 poz. 603 |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19980960603 |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref>

Legislative power in Gdańsk is vested in a unicameral [[Gdańsk City Council]] (Rada Miasta), which comprises 34 members. Council members are elected directly every four years. Like most legislative bodies, the City Council divides itself into committees, which have the oversight of various functions of the city government.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gdansk.pl/wiadomosci/pelna-lista-radni-gdanska-prezydenci-przewodniczacy-1990-2020,a,171617 |title=30 lat samorządu terytorialnego. Zobacz pełną listę radnych, prezydentów i ich zastępców |date=25 May 2020 |website=gdansk.pl |access-date=15 May 2020 |quote=}}</ref>

===Districts===
Gdańsk is divided into 34 administrative divisions: 6 {{lang|pl|[[dzielnica]]s}} and 28 {{lang|pl|[[osiedle]]s}}. A full list can be found at [[Districts of Gdańsk]], but the largest include [[Śródmieście, Gdańsk|Śródmieście]], [[Przymorze Wielkie]], [[Chełm, Gdańsk|Chełm]], [[Wrzeszcz Dolny]], and [[Wrzeszcz Górny]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bip.gdansk.pl/urzad-miejski/Podzial-administracyjny-Gdanska,a,647 |title=Podział administracyjny Gdańska |date=31 December 2023 |website=Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej |publisher=Gdańsk City Council |access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref>