Governance
Historically Otley was a market-town and ecclesiastical parish in the wapentakes of Skyrack and Claro in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was the seat of the Mid-Wharfedale Urban District council until local council reorganisation in 1974 and since then it is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Otley lies in the Leeds North West constituency of the UK Parliament and is represented by MP Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrats). It is part of the Otley & Yeadon ward on Leeds City Council and is represented by three Liberal Democrat Councillors Ryk Downes, Colin Campbell & Sandy Lay. It is twinned with the French town of Montereau-Fault-Yonne, south of Paris.
Otley and Wharfedale ward has a population of 24,000, and Otley itself has a population of 14,348, according to Census 2001.
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