2023 Manchester City Council election

2023 Manchester City Council election

←  2022 4 May 2023 2024  →
33 of 96 seats on Manchester City Council 49 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	96,219
First party Second party Third party   Leader Bev Craig Astrid Johnson John Leech Party Labour Green Liberal Democrats Last election 30 (65.8%) 1 (11.4%) 1 (12.6%) Seats before 91 3 2 Seats won 30 1 2 Seats after 88 4 4 Seat change 3 1 2 Popular vote 62,003 13,467 11,657 Percentage 64.6% 14.0% 12.2% Swing 0.35
Map of the wards of Manchester City Council coloured by winning party
Leader before election Bev Craig Labour Leader after election Bev Craig Labour

The 2023 Manchester City Council elections took place on 4 May 2023 alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom. One third of councillors (32) on Manchester City Council were elected, along with a mid-term vacancy in the Ardwick ward.

Labour retained its majority on the council. ^{[1] [2]}

Background

History

The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Manchester was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. ^[3] The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority was created in 2011 and began electing the mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former Greater Manchester metropolitan county. ^[4]

Since its formation, Manchester City Council has continuously been under Labour control. In the most recent council election in 2022, Labour won 30 of the 32 seats up for election with 65.4% of the vote, with the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party each winning one seat with 12.7% and 11.4% of the vote across the borough respectively. The Conservatives received 8.8% of the vote but did not win any seats.

The seats up for re-election in 2023 were those who were elected in 2019.^{[ citation needed ]}

Changes since the last election

Since the 2022 Manchester City Council election councillor Ekua Bayunu, who was elected as a Labour Party candidate in Hulme in 2021, quit the Labour party and joined the Green party. ^[5]

Council term

Bernard Priest (Lab, Ardwick) resigned as a councillor shortly before the election period began; this leads to a combined election where the candidate with the most votes is elected to a full four-year term, and the candidate with the second most votes fills the remainder of the vacated term 2021–24 term.

The following councillors did not stand for re-election:

Councillor	Party		Ward	Held seat since
Bernard Priest [lower-alpha 1]		Labour	Ardwick	1998
Luke Raikes		Labour	Baguley	2012
Williams Jeavons		Labour	Deansgate	2018
Greg Stanton [lower-alpha 2]		Labour	Didsbury West	2019
Sarah Russell		Labour	Northenden	2014
Edward Newman		Labour	Woodhouse Park	2002

1. Standing down mid-term.
2. Elected as a Liberal Democrat. Joined the Labour party in 2020.

Electoral process

The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. ^{[6] [7]} Councillors are elected via first-past-the-post voting, with each ward represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.^{[ citation needed ]}

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Manchester aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.^{[ citation needed ]}

Council composition

After the 2022 election, the composition of the council was:

↓

92	2	2
Labour	LD	GP

Immediately prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

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90	3	2	1
Labour	GP	LD	[lower-alpha 1]

1. vacancy

Following the election result, the composition of the council became:

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88	4	4
Labour	Grn	LD

Results

Summary change in vote share compared to the 2022 election. Change in number of seats compared to the most recent sitting councillor for each ward before the election. The result for the Ardwick ward has been normalised to account for the 2nd vacancy being filled in this election.

Manchester City Council
Party		This election			Full council			This election
		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Labour	30/33	3	90.6	59	88	91.67	62,003	64.60	1.19
	Liberal Democrats	2/33	2	6.3	2	4	4.17	11,656	12.15	0.49
	Green	1/33	1	3.1	3	4	4.17	13,467	14.03	2.62
	Conservative	0/33		0.0	0	0	0.0	7,001	7.29	1.48
	Independent	0/5		0.0	0	0	0.0	830	0.86	0.31
	Reform UK	0/2		0.0	0	0	0.0	213	0.22	0.19
	Women's Equality	0/1		0.0	0	0	0.0	96	0.10	0.09
	Monster Raving Loony	0/1		0.0	0	0	0.0	57	0.06
	Northern Heart	0/1		0.0	0	0	0.0	34	0.04
	SDP	0/1		0.0	0	0	0.0	26	0.03	0.01

For the per-ward results, asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2019; changes in vote share are therefore compared to 2019.

Ancoats and Beswick

Ancoats and Beswick ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Northwood	1,543	49.5	38.5
	Labour	Majid Dar*	1,208	38.7	16.9
	Green	Jacob Buffett	250	9.6	8.0
	Conservative	Sarah Ajiboye	94	3.0	5.7
	Independent	Peter Clifford	9	0.3
Majority			335	10.8
Rejected ballots			15
Turnout			3,119	25.79	4.51
Registered electors			12,093
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	27.7

Ardwick

Ardwick ^[9] (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Amna Saad Omar Abdullatif*	2,033	72.4	1.2
	Labour	Abdigafar Muse	1,705	60.7	10.5
	Green	George Morris	342	12.2	2.0
	Green	Niall Wright	272	9.7	0.5
	Conservative	Princetta Nicol	247	8.8	1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Abigail Bowden	215	7.7	2.5
	Liberal Democrats	Norman Lewis	184	6.6	3.6
	Conservative	Haider Raja	133	4.7	2.5
Majority
Rejected ballots			15 (full) 3 (partial)
Turnout			2,824	23.0
Registered electors			12,279
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Baguley

Baguley ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Phil Brickell	1,509	67.9	15.2
	Conservative	Luke Berry	377	17.0	1.8
	Green	Jake Welsh	214	9.6	0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Phil Manktelow	106	4.8	0.1
Majority			1132	50.9	14.3
Rejected ballots			15	0.7
Turnout			2,221
Registered electors			11,428
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	6.7

Brooklands

Brooklands ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Glynn Evans* [lower-alpha 1]	1,777	66.1	16.8
	Conservative	Stephen McHugh	324	12.1	5.0
	Green	Grace Buczkowska	274	10.2	0.9
	Reform UK	Dylan Evans	168	6.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Saunders	133	4.9	2.6
Majority			1,453	54.1	21.9
Rejected ballots			11
Turnout			2,687
Registered electors			10,990
	Labour hold		Swing	10.9

1. Incumbent councillor elected in the 2021 Manchester City Council election.

Burnage

Burnage ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Azra Ali*	2,376	66.1	2.1
	Green	Dick Venes	506	14.1	4.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Cameron	497	13.8	1.8
	Conservative	Md Shahed Hossain	199	5.5	1.4
Majority
Rejected ballots			16	0.4
Turnout
Registered electors			12,982
	Labour hold		Swing

Charlestown

Charlestown ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Basil Curley*	1,769	71.4	18.6
	Green	Paul Hodges	332	13.4	7.4
	Conservative	Arbab Khan	278	11.2	4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Mohamed Sabbagh	71	2.9	-0.4
Majority			1,437	58.0	21.0
Rejected ballots			26	1.1	0.6
Turnout			2,476	20.5	-1.8
Registered electors			12,080
	Labour hold		Swing	5.6

Cheetham

Cheetham ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shazia Butt*	2,605	80.1	-0.9
	Conservative	Iftikhar Ahmed	291	9.0	6.1
	Green	Ben Dundas	202	6.2	1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Roderick Morrison	128	3.9	0.8
Majority			2,314	71.1	-5.1
Rejected ballots			25	0.8	-0.1
Turnout			3,251	24.5	-5.9
Registered electors			13,263
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.0

Chorlton

Chorlton ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mathew Benham* [lower-alpha 1]	2,901	67.1	10.1
	Green	Anne Power	850	19.6	-1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Rhona Brown	308	7.1	-5.6
	Conservative	Keith Berry	180	4.2	-0.5
	Independent	Michael Elston	77	1.8	0.5
Majority			2,051	47.5	11.8
Rejected ballots			10	0.2	-0.4
Turnout			4,326	42.0	4.9
Registered electors			10,296
	Labour hold		Swing	5.8

1. Incumbent councillor elected in an October 2021 by-election.

Chorlton Park

Chorlton Park ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dave Rawson*	3,065	67.1	12.8
	Green	Richard Walton	810	17.7	-4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Amaan Hashmi	434	9.5	-8.6
	Conservative	Andrew Tang	228	5.0	-0.7
Majority			2,255	49.4	17.3
Rejected ballots			34	0.7	-0.2
Turnout			4,571	35.6	-1.5
Registered electors			12,845
	Labour hold		Swing	8.6

Clayton and Openshaw

Clayton and Openshaw ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sean McHale*	2,008	76.1	31.5
	Conservative	Ramzi Swaray-Kella	204	7.7	4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Maria Turner	202	7.7	4.4
	Green	Billie Nagle	198	7.5	3.9
Majority			1,804	68.4	68.0
Rejected ballots			26	1.0	0.3
Turnout			2,638	20.4	-4.7
Registered electors			12,943
	Labour hold		Swing	13.7

Crumpsall

Crumpsall ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fiaz Riasat*	2,220	74.4	2.8
	Conservative	Fatima Khan	316	10.6	1.8
	Green	Alison Hawdale	170	5.7	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Clayton	163	5.5	1.2
	Women's Equality	Samantha Days	96	3.2	0.8
Majority			1,904	63.8	0.9
Rejected ballots			18	0.6	-0.1
Turnout			2,983	25.6	-4.4
Registered electors			11,665
	Labour hold		Swing	0.5

Deansgate

Deansgate ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Anthony McCaul	1,050	56.8	22.0
	Green	Chris Perriam	370	20.0	2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Joe Lynch	253	13.7	17.7
	Conservative	Paul Wan	163	8.8
Majority			680	36.8
Rejected ballots			14
Turnout			1,850	21.16
Registered electors			8,744
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Didsbury East

Didsbury East ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	James Wilson*	2,450	52.1	10.2
	Liberal Democrats	Bryn Coombe	1,560	33.2	7.4
	Green	Anne Guy	484	10.3	0.3
	Conservative	Anjenarra Huque	160	3.4	2.8
	Independent	Paula Matsikidze	48	1	1
Majority			890	18.9	17.6
Rejected ballots			21
Turnout			4,702	42.36	0.65
Registered electors			11,149
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Didsbury West

Didsbury West ^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Kilpatrick	2,260	44.3	5.9
	Labour	Leslie Bell	2,047	40.1	6.3
	Green	James Young	592	11.6	1.8
	Conservative	Martin Cartwright	153	3.0	0.9
	SDP	Wendy Andrew	26	0.5	N/A
Majority			213	4.2	12.2
Rejected ballots			23
Turnout			5,101
Registered electors			11,888
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	6.1

Previous councillor Greg Stanton was elected for the Liberal Democrats in 2019 but defected to Labour; for the purpose of comparison to the 2019 figures this ward is a Lib Dem hold.

Fallowfield

Fallowfield ^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jade Doswell*	1,290	73.8	10.4
	Green	Charlie O'Brian	216	12.4	5.1
	Conservative	Sabneena Hossain	134	7.7	2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Lynne Williams	108	6.2	2.4
Majority			1,074	61.4	18.6
Rejected ballots
Turnout			1,748	18.35	1.8
Registered electors			9,596
	Labour hold		Swing

Gorton and Abbey Hey

Gorton and Abbey Hey ^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Afia Kamal*	1,906	64.9	17.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jackie Pearcey	531	18.1	8.3
	Green	Natasha Turner	274	9.3	2.6
	Conservative	Mokammel Alam	228	7.8	2.3
Majority			1,375	46.8	25.9
Rejected ballots
Turnout			2,939	22.08	2.1
Registered electors			13,481
	Labour hold		Swing

Harpurhey

Harpurhey ^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pat Karney*	1,715	72.1	9.0
	Conservative	Gareth Brown	307	12.9	3.7
	Green	Sam Cook	216	9.1	0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Celia Craske	140	5.9	1.6
Majority			1,408	59.2	9.4
Rejected ballots
Turnout			2,378	18.77	0.47
Registered electors			12,813
	Labour hold		Swing

Higher Blackley

Higher Blackley ^[25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paula Sadler*	1,498	66.0	9.6
	Conservative	Colin Jones	250	11.0	3.2
	Independent	Martin Power	212	9.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Matthews	156	6.9	2.5
	Green	Vicky Matthews	152	6.7	2.1
Majority			1,248
Rejected ballots			13
Turnout			2,268	20.37
Registered electors			11,210
	Labour hold		Swing

Hulme

Hulme ^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Annette Wright*	1,866	70.6	8.5
	Green	Chris Ogden	501	19.0	6.2
	Conservative	Samuel Stephenson	158	6.0	0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Bernadette Ryan	117	4.4	2.2
Majority			1,365	51.7
Rejected ballots			18
Turnout			2,660	21.96
Registered electors			12,115
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Levenshulme

Levenshulme ^[27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Basat Sheikh*	2,425	59.5	4.7
	Green	Amanda Gardner	762	18.7	0.2
	Independent	Jeremy Hoad	484	11.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	John Bridges	265	6.5	6.8
	Conservative	Patience Assam	108	2.6	1.8
	Northern Heart	Alim Haider	34	0.8	N/A
Majority			1,663
Rejected ballots			24
Turnout			4,078	30.9
Registered electors			13,284
	Labour hold		Swing

Longsight

Longsight ^[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Suzanne Richards*	2,663	83.1	6.6
	Conservative	Shahana Choudhury	259	8.1	2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Kobe Bibbon	148	4.6	1.9
	Green	Bernard Ekbery	135	4.2	1.6
Majority			2,404
Rejected ballots			20
Turnout				24.22%
Registered electors			13,321
	Labour hold		Swing

Miles Platting and Newton Heath

Miles Platting and Newton Heath ^[29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Flanagan*	1,872	74.1	13.8
	Conservative	Derek Brocklehurst	247	9.8	5.0
	Green	Jonathon Mbay Kazemb	238	9.4	1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Turner	168	6.7	2.9
Majority			1,625
Rejected ballots			21
Turnout				19.39
Registered electors			13,138
	Labour hold		Swing

Moss Side

Moss Side ^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mahadi Sharif Mahamed*	2,300	68.9	10.0
	Green	Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae	707	21.2	10.4
	Conservative	Michael Ciotkowski	179	5.4	1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Grayson	128	3.8	2.1
Majority			1,593	41.7	26.4
Rejected ballots			24	0.7
Turnout			3,338	23.97	1.0
Registered electors			13,926
	Labour hold		Swing	10.2

Moston

Moston ^[31]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Yasmine Dar*	1,859	64.6	18.1
	Conservative	Popoola Alabi	484	16.8	6.7
	Green	Diane Kosandiak	305	10.6	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Bain	228	7.9	4.1
Majority			1,375
Rejected ballots			18
Turnout				22.27
Registered electors			12,996
	Labour hold		Swing

Northenden

Northenden ^[32]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Fletcher	1,591	63.5	6.6
	Green	Sylvia Buchan	389	15.5
	Conservative	Jamie Hoyle	310	12.4	1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Rogers	158	6.3	2.9
	Monster Raving Loony	Sir Oink A-Lot	57	2.3	2.3
Majority			1,202
Rejected ballots			10
Turnout			2,515	23.01
Registered electors			10,932
	Labour hold		Swing

Old Moat

Old Moat ^[33]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Garry Bridges*	2,096	74.0	11.1
	Green	Laura Bannister	436	15.4	1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Martin	192	6.8	7.0
	Conservative	Ugo Nzeribe	109	3.8	1.4
Majority			1,660
Rejected ballots			12
Turnout				25.82
Registered electors			11,017
	Labour hold		Swing

Piccadilly

Piccadilly ^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samuel Wheeler*	958	48.7	6.1
	Green	Scott Robinson	725	36.9	12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Luke Allan	127	6.5	19.0
	Conservative	Malik Haris	100	5.1	1.9
	Reform UK	Jeffrey Wong	45	2.3	N/A
Majority			233	11.8	5.3
Rejected ballots			11	0.6
Turnout			1966
Registered electors			8,775
	Labour hold		Swing	3.4

Rusholme

Rusholme ^[35]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ahmed Ali*	2,371	80.1	5.2
	Green	Dennis Pirdzuns	249	8.4	4.3
	Conservative	Jason McLeod	204	6.9	2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Greg Sammons	135	4.6	2.0
Majority			2,122
Rejected ballots			22
Turnout			2,981	25.42
Registered electors			11,729
	Labour hold		Swing

Sharston

Sharston ^[36]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tim Whiston*	1,581	69.3	12.6
	Conservative	Daniel Johnson	349	15.4	7.0
	Green	Brian Candeland	198	8.7	2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ellin Saunders	123	5.4	0.5
Majority			1,232
Rejected ballots			13
Turnout			2,264	19.67
Registered electors			11,510
	Labour hold		Swing

Whalley Range

Whalley Range ^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angeliki Stogia*	2,379	69.0	0.1
	Green	Laura Potter	765	22.2	0.9
	Conservative	Praveen Tomar	173	5.0	1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Seb Bate	132	3.8	1.8
Majority			1,614
Rejected ballots			24
Turnout				30.4
Registered electors			11,444
	Labour hold		Swing

Withington

Withington ^[38]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Becky Chambers*	1,673	54.4	9.8
	Liberal Democrats	April Preston	909	29.5	10.3
	Green	Sam Easterby-Smith	388	12.6	3.2
	Conservative	Benjamin Harvey Spencer	108	3.5	0.8
Majority			764
Rejected ballots			15
Turnout			3,078	29.66
Registered electors			10,377
	Labour hold		Swing

Woodhouse Park

Woodhouse Park ^[39]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Anastasia Wiest	1,252	49.3	14.8
	Labour	Dave Marsh	1,106	43.6	7.8
	Conservative	Eric Houghton	137	5.4	3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Anna Hablak	34	1.3	2.2
Majority			146	5.8
Rejected ballots			8	0.3
Turnout			2,537	22.41
Registered electors			11,329
	Green gain from Labour		Swing	15.2

Changes since this election

Brooklands by-election

On 26 July 2023 Julia Baker Smith resigned her seat in Brooklands following rumours that she was living in on the Isle of Wight, 200 miles (320 km) away from her ward. ^[40] A by-election was held on 7 September 2023. ^[41]

Brooklands by-election ^[42]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dave Marsh	923	61.5
	Conservative	Norman Decent	189	12.6
	Green	Grace Buczkowska	178	11.9
	Reform UK	Dylan Evans	133	8.9
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Stewart	77	5.1
Majority			734	48.9
Turnout				13.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Resignations and defections

In October 2023 Amna Abdullatif (Ardwick) resigned from the Labour party in the wake of the Labour leadership's stance on the Israeli invasion of Gaza, sitting as an independent councillor. ^[43]

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