Manchester City Council

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Manchester City Council
Arms of the City of Manchester.svg
Coat of arms
ManchesterCityCouncilLogo.svg
Corporate logo
Type
Type
Leadership
Yasmine Dar,
Labour
since 18 May 2022 [1]
Leader
Bev Craig,
Labour
since 1 December 2021 [2]
Chief executive
Joanne Roney
since April 2017
Structure
Seats96 councillors [3]
UK Manchester City Council 2024-03.svg
Political groups
Administration (86)
  Labour (86)
Opposition (9)
  Green (4)
  Liberal Democrats (4)
  Independent (1)
Vacant (1)
Joint committees
 Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel
Length of term
4 years
Elections
Last election
 2023
(1/3rd councillors + 1 vacancy)
Next election
 2024
(1/3rd councillors + 1 vacancy)
Motto
Latin: Concilio Et Labore, lit.  'By Wisdom and Effort'
Meeting place
Manchester town hall.jpg
Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester
Website
www.manchester.gov.uk

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. [4] Its city council is composed of 96 councillors, three for each of the 32 electoral wards of Manchester. The council is controlled by the Labour Party and led by Bev Craig. There is currently no official opposition as the two opposition groups, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats both have four councillors. Joanne Roney is the chief executive. Many of the council's staff are based at Manchester Town Hall.

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History

Manchester was incorporated in 1838 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 as the Corporation of Manchester or Manchester Corporation. It achieved city status in 1853, only the second such grant since the Reformation. The area included in the city has been increased many times, in 1885 (Bradford, Harpurhey and Rusholme), 1890 (Blackley, Crumpsall, part of Droylsden, Kirkmanshulme, Moston, Newton Heath, Openshaw, and West Gorton), 1903 (Heaton), 1904 (Burnage, Chorlton cum Hardy, Didsbury, and Moss Side), 1909 (Gorton, and Levenshulme), 1931 (Wythenshawe: Baguley, Northenden, and Northen Etchells), and Ringway in 1974. A new Town Hall was opened in 1877 (by Alderman Abel Heywood) and the Mayor of Manchester was granted the title of Lord Mayor in 1893. [5]

Under the Local Government Act 1972 the council was reconstituted as a metropolitan borough council in 1974, and since then it has been controlled by the Labour Party. In 1980, Manchester was the first council to declare itself a nuclear-free zone. In 1984 it formed an equal opportunities unit as part of its opposition to Section 28. [6]

Political make-up

Elections are usually by thirds (a third of the seats elected, three years in every four), although the 2018 and 2004 elections saw all seats contested due to substantial boundary changes. Labour has controlled a majority of seats in every election since the council was reconstituted in 1974. Between 2014 and 2016 Labour occupied every seat with no opposition. [7] In the local elections held on 5 May 2016, former Manchester Withington MP, John Leech, was elected with 53% of the vote signifying the first gain for any party other than Labour for the first time in six years in Manchester and providing an opposition for the first time in two years. [8] On 24 July 2019 it was reported that Majid Dar (Ancoats and Beswick) had been suspended by the Labour party. [9] On the 16th October 2023, Ardwick Cllr Amna Abdullatif resigned from the Labour Party over Keir Starmer's refusal to call for a ceasefire in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. [10]

Year Labour Liberal Democrats Green Conservative Independent
Current864401
2023 884400
2022 922200
2021 941100
2019 933000
2018 942000
2016 951000
2015 960000
2014 960000
2012 869001
2011 7520001
2010 6231012
2008 6134010
2007 6134100
2006 6233100
2004 5738100
2003 7127100
2002 7622001
2000 7821000
1999 8217000
1998 8415000
1996 8415000
1995 8314020
1994 7915041
1992 8012052
1991 859050
1990 7890120
1987 7790130

Coat of arms

Gules, three bendlets enhanced Or; a chief argent, thereon on waves of the sea a ship under sail proper. On a wreath of colours, a terrestrial globe semee of bees volant, all proper. On the dexter side a heraldic antelope argent, attired, and chain reflexed over the back Or, and on the sinister side a lion guardant Or, murally crowned Gules; each charged on the shoulder with a rose of the last. Motto: "Concilio et Labore". Arms of the City of Manchester.svg
Gules, three bendlets enhanced Or; a chief argent, thereon on waves of the sea a ship under sail proper. On a wreath of colours, a terrestrial globe semée of bees volant, all proper. On the dexter side a heraldic antelope argent, attired, and chain reflexed over the back Or, and on the sinister side a lion guardant Or, murally crowned Gules; each charged on the shoulder with a rose of the last. Motto: "Concilio et Labore".

A coat of arms was granted to the Manchester Corporation in 1842, passing on to Manchester City Council when the borough of Manchester was granted the title of city in 1853. [11]

In 1954, Manchester Corporation successfully took the Manchester Palace of Varieties to court for improperly using the corporation's arms in its internal decoration and its company seal. The case of Manchester Corporation v Manchester Palace of Varieties Ltd; [12] was the first sitting of the Court of Chivalry for two hundred years, and it has not sat since. [13]

In April 2013, Manchester City Council threatened to take legal action against The Manchester Gazette, for its use of the city's coat of arms on their website. The News Outlet claimed it already gained permission and continued to use it for a further 8 months in spite of the warnings. Withington MP John Leech described the council's latest move as a "massive over-reaction and waste of money", adding: "Have the council's legal department got nothing better to do?". [14] [15]

Controversies

On 14 April 2010, the BBC reported that council leader Richard Leese had stood down temporarily from his post as leader of Manchester City Council after having been arrested on suspicion of the common assault of his 16-year-old stepdaughter. He was released after accepting a police caution and admitting striking his stepdaughter across the face. [16] [17]

On 12 February 2019, an 'enormous political row' [18] erupted after Manchester Council announced it was consulting the public on a new Public Spare Protection Order which, among other things, targeted 'aggressive' begging and rough sleepers who pitch tents or sleep in doorways. [19] The council's opposition leader, and former Lib Dem MP John Leech sparked further controversy when he tweeted that the potential council policy which was still out for public consultation was "absolute crap". [20]

On 8 March 2019, at a routine council budget meeting, a row erupted before proceedings began. [21] The argument was prompted by a sign put up by Labour above the Lord Mayor's chair at the front of the council chamber, reading '10 Years of Tory And Lib Dem Cuts'. When Leech, the Lib Dem leader, entered the chamber, he took down the message – prompting senior Labour councillor Pat Karney to 'thunder' across the chamber. [22] He began 'screaming' and 'shouting' at Leech, and told him to hand over the laminated A4 pieces of paper at least 11 times. [23]

On 15 April 2019, The Times uncovered a number of offensive tweets from Fallowfield Labour councillor Jade Doswell. [24] 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’. [25] She apologised on a private Facebook post. [26]

On 25 July 2019, it was reported that Majid Dar had shared Facebook comparing justifications made by the Nazis for the slaughter of Jews during the Holocaust with those made by Israel's army for its actions in Gaza. Another post stated that Zionism 'keeps changing direction like a snake', whilst replies to one of his other comments included 'Kill all the Jews PERIOD' and 'Israel needs to stop existing'. [27] [28]

On 18 March 2020, Greg Stanton stood down from the Liberal Democrats to sit as an Independent councillor. Although Stanton cited his reasons for leaving as "because I could no longer support [John Leech's] leadership", the Liberal Democrats told the Manchester Evening News that Stanton was under "investigation for unacceptable and obstructive behaviour". Stanton stated that the statement was "misleading". [29]

On 20 March 2020, The Manchester Evening News ran an article on Independent councillor Kenneth Dobson (who represents Clayton and Openshaw), after he spread conspiracy theories suggesting that the outbreak of COVID-19 was faked. A series of tweets labelling COVID-19 a 'bogus virus' and a 'load of bol**x' were posted on his Twitter page, alongside images posted describing the pandemic as 'propaganda' and conflating the spread of the virus with the rollout of 5G wireless networks. [30]

On 22 June 2020, Manchester Council's executive member for Finance and Human Resources was suspended by the Labour group, after allegations of sexual abuse were made against him on Twitter. [31] [32]

Wards

The council wards are listed under their major parliamentary constituency below; the 2010-2024 parliamentary constituencies utilise the council ward boundaries as they were when the review was carried out in 2007, but new ward boundaries were designated for the city council in 2018 and so some wards span multiple constituencies. When the next General Election is conducted it will use the new constituencies which in turn use the post-2018 ward boundaries.

Wards within Manchester City Council Manchester City Council Wards Numbered 2018.png
Wards within Manchester City Council
Blackley and Broughton Manchester Central Manchester Gorton
This constituency also contains
Manchester Withington Wythenshawe and Sale East
This constituency also contains
  1. 1 2 3 Part of this ward is in Manchester Central; in Whalley Range this part is significant.
  2. 1 2 Part of this ward is in Blackley & Broughton.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Part of this ward is in Manchester Gorton.
New Constituencies
Blackley and Middleton South Gorton and Denton Manchester Central
This constituency also contains
This constituency also contains
This constituency also contains
Manchester Rusholme Manchester Withington Wythenshawe and Sale East
This constituency also contains

Councillors

Each ward is represented by three councillors. [33]

Parliamentary constituencyWardCouncillorPartyTerm of office
Blackley and Broughton
constituency 		Charlestown Basil Curley Labour 2023–27
Hannah Priest Labour 2021–24
Veronica Kirkpatrick Labour 2022–26
Cheetham Shazia Butt Labour 2023–27
Shaukat Ali Labour 2021–24
Naeem-Ul Hassam Labour 2022–26
Crumpsall Fiaz Riasat Labour 2023–27
Nasrin Ali Labour 2021–24
Mohammad Amin Labour 2022–26
Harpurhey Pat Karney Labour 2023–27
Joanne Green Labour 2021–24
Sandra Collins Labour 2022–26
Higher Blackley Paula Sadler Labour 2023–27
Shelley Lanchbury Labour 2021–24
Olusegun Ogunnambo Labour 2022–26
Manchester Central
constituency 		Ancoats and Beswick Chris Northwood Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Alan Good Liberal Democrats 2022–24 [a]
Irene Robinson Labour 2022–26
Ardwick Amna Abdullatif Independent [d] 2023–27
Abdigafar Muse Labour 2023–24
Tina Hewitson Labour 2022–26
Clayton and Openshaw Sean McHale Labour 2023–27
Donna Ludford Labour 2021–24
Thomas Robinson Labour 2022–26
Deansgate Anthony McCaul Labour Co-op 2023–27
Marcus Johns Labour Co-op 2021–24
Joan Davies Labour 2022–26
Hulme Annette Wright Labour 2023–27
Ekua Bayunu Green [b] 2021–24
Lee-Ann Igbon Labour 2022–26
Miles Platting and Newton Heath John Flanagan Labour 2023–27
June Hitchin Labour 2021–24
Carmine Grimshaw Labour 2022–26
Moss Side Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed Labour 2023–27
Emily Rowles Labour 2021–24
Erinma Bell Labour 2022–26
Moston Yasmine Dar Labour 2023–27
Julie Connolly Labour 2021–24
Paula Appleby Labour 2022–26
Piccadilly Sam Wheeler Labour 2023–27
Jon-Connor Lyons Labour 2021–24
Adele Douglas Labour 2022–26
Manchester Gorton
constituency 		Fallowfield Jade Doswell Labour 2023–27
Zahra Alijah Labour 2021–24
Ali R. Ilyas Labour 2022–26
Gorton and Abbey Hey Afia Kamal Labour 2023–27
Julie Reid Labour 2021–24
Louis Hughes Labour 2022–26
Levenshulme Basat Sheikh Labour 2023–27
Zahid Hussain Labour 2021–24
Dzidra Noor Labour 2022–26
Longsight Suzanne Richards Labour 2023–27
Luthfur Rahman Labour 2021–24
Abid Chohan Labour 2022–26
Rusholme Ahmed Ali Labour 2023–27
Jill Lovecy Labour 2021–24
Rabnawaz Akbar Labour 2022–26
Whalley Range Angeliki Stogia Labour Co-op 2023–27
Muqaddasah Bano Labour 2021–24
Aftab Razaq Labour 2022–26
Manchester Withington
constituency 		Burnage Azra Ali Labour 2023–27
Bev Craig Labour 2021–24
Murtaza Iqbal Labour 2022–26
Chorlton Mathew Benham Labour 2023–27
Eve Holt Labour 2021–24
John Hacking Labour 2022–26
Chorlton Park Dave Rawson Labour 2023–27
Mandie Shilton-Goodwin Labour 2021–24
Joanna Midgley Labour 2022–26
Didsbury East vacant2024–27
Linda Foley Labour 2021–24
Andrew Simcock Labour 2022–26
Didsbury West Richard Kilpatrick Liberal Democrats 2023–27
Debbie Hilal Labour 2021–24
John Leech Liberal Democrats 2022–26
Old Moat Garry Bridges Labour 2023–27
Gavin White Labour 2021–24
Suzannah Reeves Labour 2022–26
Withington Becky Chambers Labour 2023–27
Chris Wills Labour Co-op 2021–24
Angela Gartside Labour 2022–26
Wythenshawe and Sale East
constituency 		Baguley Phil Brickell Labour Co-op 2023–27
Tracy Rawlins Labour Co-op 2021–24
Paul Andrews Labour Co-op 2022–26
Brooklands Glynn Evans Labour 2023–27
Dave Marsh Labour 2023–24 [c]
Sue Cooley Labour 2022–26
Northenden Richard Fletcher Labour 2023–27
Sam Lynch Labour 2021–24
Angela Moran Labour 2022–26
Sharston Tim Whiston Labour Co-op 2023–27
Emma Taylor Labour 2021–24
Tommy Judge Labour Co-op 2022–26
Woodhouse Park Anastasia Wiest Green 2023–27
Rob Nunney Green 2021–24
Astrid Johnson Green 2022–26

^a Elected at a by-election in February 2022 to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Marcia Hutchinson. [34]

^b Elected as Labour but joined the Green party in July 2022 [35]

^c Elected at a by-election in September 2023 to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Julia Baker Smith. [36]

^d Elected as Labour but resigned from the party in the wake of the Labour leadership's stance on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. [37]

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