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

Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council The Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in the United Kingdom. It consists of 75 Councillors with one-third being elected every three years in four. The borough is separated into 25 wa ...

, generally known as Wigan Council, is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of

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, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2004, 75

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s have been elected from 25 wards.

Political control

From 1889 to 1974

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 enlarged and became a metropolitan borough, 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 Wigan 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 1991 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 1980 election, and more recently the 2004 election – which increased the number of seats by three. Both needed the whole council to be elected in those years.
Wigan - vote shares

Borough result maps

File:Wigan UK local election 1973 map.png, 1973 results map File:Wigan UK local election 1975 map.png, 1975 results map File:Wigan UK local election 1976 map.png, 1976 results map File:Wigan UK local election 1978 map.png, 1978 results map File:Wigan UK local election 1979 map.png, 1979 results map File:Wigan80.png, 1980 results map File:Wigan81.png, 1981 results map File:Wigan82.png, 1982 results map File:Wigan83.png, 1983 results map File:Wigan84.png, 1984 results map File:Wigan85.png, 1985 results map File:Wigan86.png, 1986 results map File:Wigan87.png, 1987 results map File:Wigan88.png, 1988 results map File:Wigan89.png, 1989 results map File:Wigan90.png, 1990 results map File:Wigan91.png, 1991 results map File:Wigan92.png, 1992 results map File:Wigan93.png, 1993 results map File:Wigan94.png, 1994 results map File:Wigan95.png, 1995 results map File:Wigan96.png, 1996 results map File:Wigan03.png, 2003 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2004 map.svg, 2004 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2006 map.svg, 2006 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2007 map.svg, 2007 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2008 map.svg, 2008 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2010 map.svg, 2010 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2011 map.svg, 2011 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2012 map.svg, 2012 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2014 map.svg, 2014 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2015 map.svg, 2015 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2016 map.svg, 2016 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2018 map.svg, 2018 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2019 map.svg, 2019 results map File:Wigan UK local election 2021 map.svg, 2021 results map

By-election results

References

External links

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