Wisbech Town Council is a parish council covering the town of Wisbech in England. It is the successor to the Wisbech Municipal Borough. The Council is based at 1 North Brink, Wisbech where its committee meetings and full council meetings are usually held.

From May 2023 the town's eighteen councillors are elected in ten wards (with numbers of councillors in each): Claremont (1), Clarence (1), Clarkson (2), Medworth (2), North (2), Octavia Hill (4), Peckover East (1), Peckover West (1), Staithe and Kirkgate (3) and Waterlees (1). Each year they meet to elect a Town Mayor and deputy mayor. Four staff administer and organise the council's activities.

Granted 1929. Officially described as:

• Arms: Azure representation of St Peter and St Paul or standing within a double canopy or (Arms of the Borough of Wisbech).^[16]
• Crest: On a wreath of the colours, A 16th Century ship with three masts Or on each mast a square sail Azure the centre one charged with two keys in saltire wards upwards and the other two charged with a castle Or (Crest of the Borough of Wisbech).

These were transferred from the Borough of Wisbech to the Town Council.^[17]

The council is composed of a diverse membership. The minimum age to be a councillor was lowered from 21 to 18 by the Electoral Administration Act 2006. The Wisbech Standard reported that twenty-two year old Samantha Hoy was the youngest ever member when she was co-opted onto the council in 2009.^[18] This was incorrect as Cllr Bennett had won an election to the council 30 years earlier in 1979 as a twenty-one year old.^[19] Cllr W Retchless was also elected as a twenty-one year old in 1987.^[20]

Elections were held for all the wards of the Town Council on 4 May 2023, the same day as elections to Fenland District Council. The Local Government Boundary Commission proposed new wards.^[21]

A number of former councillors have later become parliamentary candidates and MPs. Malcolm Moss's political career started as a Wisbech Town councillor in 1979.

The council may confer the freedom of the town on individuals or organisations, including the following:

• 1996 No.1 Company, Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force.
• 2001 James Gee Pascoe Crowden, LL, KStJ, JP
• 2010 Jody Alan Cundy CBE
• 2013 Richard Symond Gyles Barnwell, DL
• 2015 Malcolm Douglas Moss^[34]
• 2015 Royal British Legion riders involved in the Cambs876 Remembered project^[35]
• 2017 Gerald Fleming^[36]
• 2017 John McIntosh^[37]
• 2017 Ronald Sanderson^[38]
• 2019 Wisbech In Bloom^[39]
• 2019 The Vivien Fire Engine Trust^[40]

• Wisbech Annual Guide and Map (produced and distributed to local households each year).^[41]
• Wisbech Town Council Civic Handbook (2011)^[42]
• Code of Conduct (2012)^[43]
• Standing Orders (2019)^[44]
• A brief guide to Wisbech Town Council's Council Chamber^[45]

At its inception the newly formed Town Council resolved that the Chairman be styled Town Mayor. Mayor's role is largely ambassadorial, attending community events, opening shops and businesses and acting as a representative of the town in neighbouring areas. The Mayor also hosts a number of fundraising events throughout the year raising money for chosen charities.

'It is custom and practice on this Council for the Mayor to be selected on seniority and long service, whilst being mindful to select, where possible, a member who has not served as Mayor before. It is also custom and practice for this Town Council to select a Mayor Elect prior to the Annual Meeting who will then go forward to be considered by Full Council at the Annual Meeting. At the same time as a Mayor Elect, it is also custom and practice to select a Deputy Mayor Elect, who will then also be considered and elected by Full Council at the Annual Council Meeting.'^[46]

Each year the councillors at the Annual Council Meeting in May elect members to be the town mayor and deputy mayor. The fur trimmed robes used for mayor-making were created for local shipping magnate Richard Young five years consecutively Mayor of the Borough of Wisbech. It is now unusual to be mayor in consecutive years. The event usually takes place in the council chamber, exceptionally in 2020 this took place online.^[47] In May 2021 Wisbech Castle hosted the Mayor-making for the first time.^[48]