Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time.

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. The council is currently run by a Liberal Democrat minority administration. At the 2022 local elections, the ...

is the local authority for the

metropolitan borough A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of districts of England, local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan distric ...

Metropolitan Borough of Stockport The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England, south-east of central Manchester. As well as the towns of Stockport, Bredbury and Marple, it includes the outlying areas of Hazel G ...

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 2004, 63

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s have been elected from 21 wards. New ward boundaries are being prepared to take effect from the 2023 election.

Political control

From 1889 to 1974

Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is withi ...

was a

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, independent of any county council. Under the

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it had its territory enlarged and became a

, with Greater Manchester County Council providing county-level services. The first election to the reconstituted borough 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 Stockport became a

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. Political control of the council since 1973 has been held by the following parties:

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 1974 have included:

Council elections

* 1973 election * 1975 election * 1976 election * 1978 election * 1979 election * 1980 election * 1982 election * 1983 election * 1984 election * 1986 election * 1987 election * 1988 election * 1990 election * 1991 election * 1992 election * 1994 election * 1995 election * 1996 election * 1998 election * 1999 election * 2000 election * 2002 election * 2003 election * 2004 election * 2006 election * 2007 election *

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* 2010 election * 2011 election * 2012 election * 2014 election * 2015 election * 2016 election * 2018 election * 2019 election * 2021 election * 2022 election

Borough result maps

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By-election results

References

By-election results

External links

Stockport Council
{{Metropolitan districts of England Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport * Council elections in Greater Manchester Metropolitan borough council elections in England