2024 Salford City Council election

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2024 Salford City Council election
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21 of 60 seats on Salford City Council
31 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Paul Dennett Robin GarridoPaul Heilbron
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Last election18 seats (57.3%)3 seats (23.5%)0 seats (8.2%)
Current seats4981
Incumbent Council control

Paul Dennett
Labour



The 2024 Salford City Council elections are scheduled to be held on 2 May 2024 alongside the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election, 2024 Salford mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom. Twenty-one seats on Salford City Council are up for election; one in each ward, and one additional seat in Ordsall to fill a casual vacancy.

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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. Salford was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. [1] 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. [2] One member from each district council in Greater Manchester, conventionally their leader, sits on the combined authority alongside the mayor.

Since its formation, Salford City Council has continuously been under Labour control. In the most recent council election in 2022, Labour won 15 seats, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats winning two seats each and an independent politician winning one. [3]

As the Local Government Boundary Commission for England produced new boundaries for Manchester ahead of the 2021 election, meaning that all councillors were elected before returning to electing by thirds, candidates up for re-election in 2024 are those who came first in each ward in 2021.

Changes since last election

In November 2023 Liberal Democrats councillor Alex Warren (Quays ward) resigned after he took up a politically restricted role. [4] A by-election was held on 11 January 2024 which was won by Paul Heilbron for the Lib Dems. [5]

During the 2023 local elections, a minor controversy emerged when Chris Twells, a Liberal Democrat councillor for Salford Ordsall since 2022, sought to simultaneously become a councillor in Cotswold District Council, standing in the Tetbury with Upton ward over 150 miles away from Salford. [6] He subsequently won in a surprise upset, [7] although the Liberal Democrats soon suspended him. [8] Chris Twells resigned from his Ordsall seat on March 15, 2024, remaining on the Cotswold council as an independent councillor. The Ordsall seat has remained vacant until this election. [9]

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. [10] [11] The election took place by first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally being represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Salford 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 will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Results

Election result

2024 Salford City Council election
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Labour
  Conservative
  Independent
  Liberal Democrats 1
  Communist 0N/A
  Green 0
  Reform UK 0
  TUSC 0
  Women's Equality 0

Candidates

Salford City Council released the list of candidates in early April. [12] [13] Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election.

Barton and Winton Ward

Barton and Winton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Janet Meades-Smith
Green Jack Smith
Labour Jacqui Fahy
Liberal Democrats Antony Duke
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Blackfriars & Trinity

Blackfriars and Trinity
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Craig Walsh
Green David Jones
Labour Jane Hamilton*
Liberal Democrats Stuart Oxbrow
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Boothstown & Ellenbrook

Boothstown and Ellenbrook
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Bob Clarke*
Green Diana Battersby
Labour Darren Matthews
Liberal Democrats Ian Chisnall
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Broughton

Broughton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Saqib Aftab
Green David Henry
Labour Maria Brabiner*
Liberal Democrats Ben Web
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Cadishead & Lower Irlam

Cadishead and Lower Irlam
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Richman
Green Jane Ransley
Labour Lewis Nelson*
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Claremont

Claremont
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alima Husain
Green Christopher Seed
Labour Barbara Bentham*
Liberal Democrats Ian McKinlay
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Eccles

Eccles
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Worcester
Green Nicola Smith
Labour Sharmina August*
TUSC Sally Griffiths
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Higher Irlam & Peel Green

Higher Irlam and Peel Green
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Dorothy Chapman
Green Nathan Ashmall
Labour Tracy Kelly*
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Kersal & Broughton Park

Kersal & Broughton Park
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Arnie Saunders*
Green Nel Scroggie
Labour Muhammad Kashif
Liberal Democrats Ben Thomas
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Little Hulton

Little Hulton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Myrella Saunders
Green Jane Wood
Labour Tony Davies
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Ordsall

Ordsall (2 seats due to by-election)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tanya Burch*
Liberal Democrats John Grant
Labour Brendan Kerville
Conservative Charlie Ng
Green Jack Owens
Green Michael Scantlebury
Conservative Clare Stevenson'
Turnout

Pendlebury & Clifton

Pendlebury & Clifton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Kathleen Allen
Conservative Angela Grant
Labour Su Matthews
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Pendleton & Charlestown

Pendleton & Charlestown
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Adam Carney
Green Adam Skyrme
Labour Michele Barnes*
Liberal Democrats Kenneth Thompson
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Quays

Quays
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Derek Meades
Green Andrea Romero O'Brien
Labour Liz McCoy
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Moore
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Swinton & Wardley

Swinton & Wardley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jackie Mountaine
Green Liam Waite
Independent Joseph O'Neill
Labour Jim Dawson*
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Swinton Park

Swinton Park
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Glenn Croston
Green Lisa Swarbrick
Labour Heather Fletcher*
Liberal Democrats John McLellan
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Walkden North

Walkden North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kausar George
Green Frederick Battersby
Labour Adrian Brocklehurst*
Liberal Democrats Scott Turner-Preece
Reform UK Craig Birtwistle
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Walkden South

Walkden South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Christopher Bates
Green Tom Dylan
Independent Paul Whitelegg
Labour Joshua Brooks*
Liberal Democrats Rowan Blessing
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Weaste & Seedley

Weaste & Seedley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Communist Chris Neville
Conservative Dan Whitehouse
Green Andrew Nadin
Labour Phil Cusak*
Liberal Democrats Ninad Oak
Women's Equality Carmen Wood-Hope
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Worsley & Westwood Park

Worsley & Westwood Park
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Lewis Ormston
Green Sara Laing
Labour James Prady
Liberal Democrats James Blessing
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

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