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Elections to
Manchester City Council Manchester City Council is the local authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester is the sixth largest city in England by population. Its city council is composed of 96 councillors, three f ...
were held on 2 May 2019, as part of the
2019 United Kingdom local elections Local elections in parts of the United Kingdom were held on Thursday 2 May 2019, with 248 English local councils, six directly elected mayors in England, and all 11 local councils in Northern Ireland being contested. A total of 8,886 counci ...
. In 2018 Labour retained its majority of the council with 94 seats to the Liberal Democrats making up the opposition of 2, led by former MP John Leech.


Background and campaign

Labour won every seat on Manchester City Council between 2011 and
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. In 2016, former Liberal Democrat MP John Leech, who lost his seat in
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in the
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won a seat in Didsbury West and was joined by another Liberal Democrat Councillor in 2018. Following the resignation of Fallowfield councillor Grace Fletcher-Hackwood on 19 March, two vacancies were filled in the Fallowfield ward; the candidate who received the most votes won the full four-year term and the second placed candidate took over the three years remaining of the vacant seat. On 25 March, Manchester Lib Dem leader John Leech launched his party's manifesto for the 2019 elections. This was followed by the
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launching their manifesto for the local elections on 9 April. On 15 April, ''The Times'' uncovered a number of offensive tweets from Fallowfield Labour candidate Jade Doswell. In 2014, Doswell had tweeted that she was a "little bit sick in my mouth" at the sight of an Israeli flag and claimed the flag was 'offensive' and provocative’. She apologised on a private Facebook post. On 17 April, ''Manchester Evening News'' reported that the Liberal Democrat candidate for Hulme, Daniel Tóth-Nagy, had been suspended from the party after tweeting "There is no such thing as
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" and making other comments deemed Islamophobic. Tóth-Nagy denied that he had ever "express dhatred or violent against any person", but the party issued a statement condemning the comments and immediately withdrew their support for him. On 30 April, the ''Manchester Evening News'' reported that the
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candidate for Charlestown, Charalampos Kagouras, had been dropped by the party as a candidate due to years of racist and Islamophobic posts on social media.


Result

Changes are compared with the 2018 results. Socialist Alternative changes in vote share are compared to the results for
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. Where 2 seats were contested simultaneously due to a vacancy the results for that ward have been normalised.


Council composition

Before the election, the composition of the council was: After the election, the composition of the council is:


Ward results

Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in
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, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis.


Ancoats and Beswick


Ardwick


Baguley


Brooklands


Burnage


Charlestown


Cheetham


Chorlton


Chorlton Park


Clayton and Openshaw


Crumpsall


Deansgate


Didsbury East


Didsbury West


Fallowfield


Gorton and Abbey Hey


Harpurhey


Higher Blackley


Hulme

*On 17 April, Dániel Tóth-Nagy was suspended by the Liberal Democrats over allegedly Islamophobic comments made on social media.


Levenshulme


Longsight


Miles Platting and Newton Heath


Moss Side


Moston


Northenden


Old Moat


Piccadilly


Rusholme


Sharston


Whalley Range


Withington


Woodhouse Park


Changes since this election

On 24 July 2019 it was reported that Majid Dar ( Ancoats and Beswick) had been suspended by the Labour Party. He was readmitted to the party and to the Labour group on the council without formal announcement. On 18 March 2020 Greg Stanton (
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) resigned from the Liberal Democrats to sit as an independent. Later, in April, he joined the Labour Party. On , Sue Murphy (
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) died after a long illness.


Clayton and Openshaw by-election

Clayton and Openshaw Clayton and Openshaw is an area and ward (politics), electoral ward of Manchester, England created by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) replacing the previous electoral wards of Ancoats and Clayton, Ancoats & Clayton an ...
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ouncillor Andy Harland died in December 2019. A by-election took place on Thursday 27 February 2020 to fill the vacancy. Changes are compared with the
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result.


References

{{Greater Manchester elections Manchester City Council elections 2019 English local elections May 2019 events in the United Kingdom 2010s in Manchester