2024 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election

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2024 Rochdale Council election
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20 out of 60 seats of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
31 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Neil Emmott John Taylor
Party Labour Conservative
Last election16 seats, 56.5%3 seats, 19.6%
Current seats469
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LeaderAndy KellyLee Wolf
Party Liberal Democrats Middleton Ind.
Last election1 seat, 11.9%0 seats, 5.0%
Current seats32
Incumbent Leader

Neil Emmott
Labour



The 2024 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council elections are due to take place on 2 May 2024 alongside the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom. One third of seats (20) on Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council will be contested. [1]

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Background

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. Rochdale was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. [2] 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. [3]

Since its formation, Rochdale has variously been under Labour control, Liberal Democrat control, Conservative control and no overall control. Councillors have predominantly been elected from the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party, with some independent councillors also serving. The council has had an overall Labour majority since 2011.

In the previous election in 2023, Labour won 16 seats with 56.5% of the vote gaining three councillors, the Conservatives won three seats with 19.6% of the vote losing one councillor, the Liberal Democrats won 1 seat with 11.9% of the vote, and the Middleton Independents Party won no seats from 5% of the vote losing two councillors. [4]

On 19 February 2024, Farooq Ahmed, a Liberal Democrat candidate for Central Ward, was suspended by the party after being photographed campaigning with George Galloway in the 2024 Rochdale by-election. [5]

Electoral process

The council generally 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] The election will be conducted using the first-past-the-post voting system, with each ward electing one councillor.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Rochdale 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.

Candidates

Balderstone & Kirkholt

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Bamford

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Castleton

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Central Rochdale

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East Middleton

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Healey

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Hopwood Hall

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Kingsway

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Littleborough Lakeside

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Milkstone & Deeplish

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Milnrow & Newhey

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Norden

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North Heywood

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North Middleton

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Smallbridge & Firgrove

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South Middleton

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Spotland & Falinge

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Wardle, Shore & West Littleborough

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West Heywood

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West Middleton

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References

  1. ↑ "Your next election". rochdale.gov.uk. Rochdale Borough Council. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  2. ↑ Local Government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 7. ISBN   0-11-750847-0.
  3. ↑ "The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Scheerhout, John; Tweed, Lyell (4 May 2023). "Rochdale council local elections 2023 results in full". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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