The 2023 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council elections took place on 4 May 2023 alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. Due to boundary changes, all 57 seats on

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Tameside Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local govern ...

were contested. Labour retained its majority on the council.

Background

The

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created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering

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, the West Midlands, and

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starting in 1974. Manchester was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. The

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abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as

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s. The

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was created in 2011 and began electing the

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from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former Greater Manchester metropolitan county. Since its creation in 1974, Tameside has always been under Labour control, aside from 1978 to 1982 when the

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held a majority. In June 2022 the

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made The Tameside (Electoral Changes) Order 2022, which officially abolished the existing 19 wards and created 19 new wards with different boundaries. Because of this change, all 57 seats on the council, three per ward, were to be contested.

Electoral process

The election took place using the

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system, a form of

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, with each ward being represented by three councillors. The candidate with the most votes in each ward will serve a four-year term ending in 2027, the second-placed candidate will serve a three-year term anding in 2026 and the third-placed candidate will serve a one-year term ending in 2024. All registered electors (

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, Irish,

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and

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citizens) living in Oldham aged 18 or over were entitled to vote in the election. People who lived at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, were entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Previous council composition

Results

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council 2023

Ashton Hurst

Ashton St Michael's

Ashton Waterloo

Audenshaw

Denton North East

Denton South

Denton West

Droylsden East

Droylsden West

Dukinfield

Dukinfield Stalybridge

Hyde Godley

Third place was decided by the returning officer drawing lots to break the tie between Andrea Colbourne and David McAllister.

Hyde Newton

Hyde Werneth

Longendale

Mossley

St Peter's

Stalybridge North

Stalybridge South

References

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