Fun fact, the City of London is the last local authority in the UK where businesses as well residents get to vote. Businesses can appoint one voter for every five employees up to 50, and then one per 50 employees after that.

Do you know how that adds up, what the ratio of business votes to residential votes is? I imagine many more people work in the city than live there.

there are more business votes, but practically very few people actually use their business vote

as a business voter I went to my ward's annual meeting (wardmote), they were surprised to see a non-resident there

nearly the entire thing was about issues residents care about (late noise, cycle paths, petty crime, etc)

that and their amazing new plans for billingsgate/smithfield

the other are a couple of other things to remember about City ward lists:

    1. employers have no involvement other than picking their voters -- it's up to the individuals
    2. due to the allocation rules: micro-businesses have most of the votes, so small food vendors have significantly more votes than all the large businesses

Fun fact, comments like this give me the impression this place is turning into reddit.

Not to be confused with the Lord Mayor of London.

I think a lot of people who don't know much about London are surprised that the City of London is quite small and not what people generally mean when they say "London".

AKA "The Square Mile"

this is actually a common misconception, since the GLA controls the LLDC, TFL, and LFC it has enormous influence on the square mile.

Significantly as I noted in my original comment the transit from outside the CoL into the market, but also directly.