Whitchurch Park is a council ward

Wards of the United Kingdom

A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of British administrative and electoral geography .-England:...

 of the city of Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

 in England. It includes the eastern part of Hartcliffe

Hartcliffe

Hartcliffe is the name of both a council ward and a district of the city of Bristol in the United Kingdom which lies within that ward. The ward contains the areas of Hartcliffe and Headley Park, as well as small portions of Withywood and Bishopsworth....

 and the western part of Whitchurch

Whitchurch, Bristol

Whitchurch is a village in north Somerset, England and an adjoining suburb of south eastern Bristol, bounded by Hartcliffe to the west and Hengrove and Knowle to the north. The suburb was initially developed during the 1930s....

. The ward has a population of 11,061 people.

Religion

7,683 people, or 69.5% of the population are Christians. This is a higher figure than the average for the city of Bristol. 21 % of people identified themselves as non religious, while 7.8% did not state their religion in the census. The figures for all other religions were below 1%.

Politics

The ward is in the Bristol South constituency. The member of Parliament for the constituency is Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bristol South since 1987. She was Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families at the Department for Children, Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and is now a Deputy Speaker of...

, of the Labour Party.
The councillors for the ward are Timothy Kent (Liberal Democrat) and Helen Holland (Labour)