Manchester City Council seats at election

Manchester City Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Manchester City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...

, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2018, 96

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s have been elected from 32 wards.

Political control

From 1889 to 1974 Manchester was a

county borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent te ...

, independent of any county council. Under the Local Government Act 1972 it had its territory slightly enlarged, gaining the parish of Ringway from Cheshire, whilst having its functions and responsibilities reformed, becoming a metropolitan borough, with Greater Manchester County Council providing county-level services. The first election to the reconstituted city council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its revised powers on 1 April 1974. Greater Manchester County Council was abolished in 1986 and Manchester became a

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. The Labour Party has held a majority of the seats on the city council since the reforms of 1974: County Borough Metropolitan Borough

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 1974 have been:

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2004 election which reduced the number of seats by 3, leading to the whole council being elected in that year.
Manchester local election - vote share

Borough result maps

File:Manchester UK local election 2004 map.svg, 2004 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2006 map.svg, 2006 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2007 map.svg, 2007 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2008 map.svg, 2008 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2010 map.svg, 2010 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2011 map.svg, 2011 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2012 map.svg, 2012 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2014 map.svg, 2014 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2015 map.svg, 2015 results map File:Manchester UK local election 2016 map.svg, 2016 results map

By-election results

References

External links

Manchester City Council
{{Metropolitan districts of England Council elections in Greater Manchester Local government in Manchester *