2024 Manchester City Council election

2024 Manchester City Council election

←  2023 2 May 2024 2026 →
32 of 96 seats on Manchester City Council + 1 vacancy 49 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Bev Craig John Leech Astrid Johnson Party Labour Liberal Democrats Green Last election 30 (64.6%) 2 (12.2%) 1 (14.0%) Seats before 87 4 4 Seats won 29 + 1 vacancy 1 1 Seats after 87 4 3 Seat change 1
Map of the wards of Manchester City Council coloured by winning party
Leader before election Bev Craig Labour Leader after election TBD

The 2024 Manchester City Council elections are scheduled to take place on 2 May 2024, alongside the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election and other local elections across England. One third of members of Manchester City Council are up for election.

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. ^[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, Manchester City Council has continuously been under Labour control. In the most recent council election in 2023, Labour won 30 of the 33 seats up for election with 64.6% of the vote, the Liberal Democrats won two seats with 12.2% of the vote and the Green Party won one seat with 14% of the vote. The Conservatives received 7.3% of the vote but did not win any seats.

Candidates up for re-election in 2024 are those who were elected in 2021.

Changes since the last election

In July 2023 councillor 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. ^[3] A by-election was held on 7 September 2023, won by Labour's Dave Marsh. ^[4]

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, and now sits as an independent councillor. ^[5]

In March 2024 James Wilson (Didsbury East) resigned as a councillor; voters in the ward will vote for up to 2 candidates with the winner receiving a full 4-year term, and the candidate with the 2nd highest number of votes will serve the remainder of Cllr Wilson's 2023-2027 term.

Councillors not seeking re-election

Councillor	Party		Ward	Held seat since
Hannah Priest		Labour	Charlestown	2016
Eve Holt		Labour	Chorlton	2018
Zahra Alijah		Labour	Fallowfield	2016
Shelley Lanchbury		Labour	Higher Blackley	2012
Emily Rowles		Labour	Moss Side	2014
Julie Connolly		Labour	Moston	2021

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, one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.

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.

Council composition

After the 2023 election, the composition of the council was:

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88	4	4
Labour	Grn	Lib Dem

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

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86	4	4	1	1
Labour	Grn	Lib Dem	[lower-alpha 1]	[lower-alpha 2]

1. Independent
2. Vacancy

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

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87	4	3	1	1
Labour	Lib Dem	Grn	[lower-alpha 1]	[lower-alpha 2]

1. Workers Party of Britain
2. Independent

Results

Summary change in vote share compared to the 2023 election; where no figure is shown, the party did not stand candidates in 2023. Change in number of seats compared to the most recent sitting councillor for each ward before the election. The result for the Didsbury East 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	29+1		90.9	57	87	90.63	60,059	53.70	10.90
	Green	1	1	3.0	2	3	3.13	19,562	17.49	3.46
	Liberal Democrats	1		3.0	3	4	4.17	11,577	10.35	1.80
	Workers Party	1	1	3.0	0	1	1.04	6,174	5.52
	Conservative	0		0.0	0	0	0.00	6,865	6.14	1.15
	Independent	0		0.0	1	1	1.04	5,037	4.50	3.60
	Independent Network	0		0.0	0	0	0.00	558	0.50
	Women's Equality	0		0.0	0	0	0.00	123	0.11	0.01
	Communist Future	0		0.0	0	0	0.00	93	0.08
	TUSC	0		0.0	0	0	0.00	81	0.07

Ward level results are compared to the 2021 election when candidates seeking re-election were last elected on their normal cycle. Incumbent candidates are denoted with an asterisk. ^[8]

Ancoats and Beswick

Ancoats and Beswick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Good*	1,900	49.8	27.8
	Labour	Julie Jarman	1,420	37.2	20.7
	Green	Kate Sophie Walsh Benson	366	9.6	1.2
	Conservative	Paul Wan	76	2.0	6.3
	Communist Future	Chris Strafford	33	0.9	New
Majority			480	12.6
Rejected ballots			19	0.5
Turnout			3,814	30.1
Registered electors			12,679
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	24.3

Alan Good was elected in a by-election in 2022; changes in vote share are compared with the regular May 2021 election cycle and on that basis this is a notional Liberal Democrat gain.

Ardwick

Ardwick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Abdigafar Mohamed Muse	1,947	63.2	14.0
	Green	Chris Perriam	528	17.1	7.7
	Conservative	Princetta Nicol	329	10.7	2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Bernie Ryan	233	7.6	2.6
Majority			1,419	46.0
Rejected ballots			45	1.5
Turnout			3,082	23.8
Registered electors			12,956
	Labour hold		Swing	10.8

Baguley

Baguley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Tracey Rawlins*	1,586	62.8	0.4
	Conservative	Luke James Berry	423	16.7	3.7
	Green	Jake Welsh	319	12.6	2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Phil Manktelow	148	5.9	1.8
Majority			1,163	46.0
Rejected ballots			50	2.0
Turnout			2,526	21.6
Registered electors			11,683
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	1.6

Brooklands

Brooklands

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dave Marsh*	1,737	62.8	1.3
	Conservative	Yemi Ajayi	407	14.7	2.1
	Green	Grace Buczkowska	402	14.5	2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Stewart	177	6.4	1.3
Majority			1,330	48.1
Rejected ballots			44	1.6
Turnout			2,767	24.9
Registered electors			11,093
	Labour hold		Swing	0.4

Dave Marsh was elected in a by-election in 2023.

Burnage

Burnage

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bev Craig*	2,257	53.2	19.0
	Green	Asma Alam	815	19.2	11.1
	Workers Party	Syed Ataur Rahman	707	16.7	New
	Liberal Democrats	Kobe Bibbon	210	5.0	1.4
	Conservative	Muhammad Tahir	197	4.6	5.4
Majority			1,442	34.0
Rejected ballots			53	1.3
Turnout			4,239	32.1
Registered electors			13,222
	Labour hold		Swing	14.9

Charlestown

Charlestown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Uzma Jafri	1,602	58.6	5.5
	Green	Paul Dominick Hodges	591	21.6	15.2
	Conservative	Muhammad Arbab Khan	299	10.9	6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Melanie Ncube	176	6.4	2.7
Majority			1,011	37.0
Rejected ballots			68	2.5
Turnout			2,736	22.4
Registered electors			12,225
	Labour hold		Swing	10.3

Cheetham

Cheetham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shaukat Ali*	1,906	49.5	30.2
	Independent	Dawud Ali	1,218	31.6	New
	Green	Fesl Reza-Khan	315	8.2	1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Roderick George Donald Morrison	191	5.0	0.9
	Conservative	Patience Assam	150	3.9	5.7
	Communist Future	Edmund Potts	31	0.8	New
Majority			688	17.9
Rejected ballots			42	1.1
Turnout			3,853	27.9
Registered electors			13,818
	Labour hold		Swing	30.9

Chorlton

Chorlton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tina Kirwin-McGinley	2,809	59.5	8.5
	Green	Kate Hughes	1,360	28.8	11.7
	Liberal Democrats	Rhona Brown	343	7.3	1.9
	Conservative	Festus Fofanah	159	3.4	3.4
Majority			1,449	30.7
Rejected ballots			51	1.1
Turnout			4,722	44.9
Registered electors			10,524
	Labour hold		Swing	10.1

Chorlton Park

Chorlton Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Mandie Shilton Godwin*	3,235	63.2	6.0
	Green	Richard Miles Stubbs Walton	1,222	23.9	9.9
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Rogers	366	7.1	1.2
	Conservative	Keith Berry	230	4.5	4.0
Majority			2,013	39.3
Rejected ballots			67	1.3
Turnout			5,120	38.76
Registered electors			13,210
	Labour hold		Swing	7.9

Clayton and Openshaw

Clayton and Openshaw

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donna Ludford*	2,191	72.6	3.3
	Green	Samsuzzaman Syed	359	11.9	3.5
	Conservative	Ramzi Swaray-Kella	216	7.2	5.9
	Liberal Democrats	Maria Theresa Turner	211	7.0	0.3
Majority			1,832	60.7
Rejected ballots			39	1.3
Turnout			3,016	22.59
Registered electors			13,350
	Labour hold		Swing	0.1

Crumpsall

Crumpsall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nasrin Ali*	1,467	42.6	23.8
	Independent	Madasar Kasana Anwar	981	28.5	New
	Green	Alison Jane Hawdale	298	8.6	0.3
	Conservative	Arbab Khan Fatima	213	6.2	15.4
	Liberal Democrats	Norman Lewis	192	5.6	1.9
	Independent	Tariq Baz	124	3.6	New
	Women's Equality	Samantha Days	123	3.6	New
Majority			486	14.3
Rejected ballots			50	1.5
Turnout			3,448	28.77
Registered electors			11,983
	Labour hold		Swing	26.1

Deansgate

Deansgate

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Marcus Charles Johns*	1,432	61.3	7.4
	Green	Chris Ogden	490	21.0	9.9
	Conservative	Jason Peter McLeod	196	8.4	1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Luke Allan	186	8.0	17.3
Majority			942	40.3
Rejected ballots			31	1.3
Turnout			2,335	24.23
Registered electors			9,635
	Labour hold		Swing	1.2

Didsbury East

Didsbury East (2)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Linda Foley*	2,636	53.4	2.4
	Labour	Leslie Bell	2,611	52.9	1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Bryn Coombe	1,176	23.8	11.9
	Green	Charlotte Mary Lanigan	784	15.9	7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Belal Sabbagh	780	15.8	19.9
	Green	Ben Dundas	622	12.6	4.0
	Conservative	Stephen James McHugh	279	5.7	1.0
	Conservative	Anjenarra Huque	215	4.4	0.4
Rejected ballots			36
Turnout			4,933	43.57
Registered electors			11,322
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Didsbury West

Didsbury West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Deborah Louise Hilal*	2,379	43.3	1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Rosie Hughes	2,220	40.4	0.2
	Green	Stanley Charles Parker	677	12.3	5.0
	Conservative	Daniel James Bell	173	3.1	2.2
Majority			159	2.9
Rejected ballots			45	0.8
Turnout			5,494	44.81
Registered electors			12.262
	Labour hold		Swing	0.7

Fallowfield

Fallowfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ghazala Sadiq*	1,136	53.1	18.0
	Green	Albie Mayo	338	15.8	0.4
	Workers Party	Chowdhury Murtahin Billah	331	15.5	New
	Liberal Democrats	Lynne Williams	196	9.2	5.1
	Conservative	Sabreena Zareen Hossain	113	5.3	4.1
Majority			798	37.3
Rejected ballots			27	1.3
Turnout			2,141	21.21
Registered electors			10,094
	Labour hold		Swing	9.2

Gorton and Abbey Hey

Gorton and Abbey Hey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Julie Reid*	2,206	67.3	3.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jackie Pearcey	403	12.3	0.8
	Green	Natasha Turner	368	11.2	6.3
	Conservative	Ugo Nzeribe	248	7.6	3.7
Majority			1,803	55.0
Rejected ballots			55	1.7
Turnout			3,280	23.38
Registered electors			14,031
	Labour hold		Swing	1.3

Harpurhey

Harpurhey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joanne Mary Green*	1,879	69.4	0.7
	Conservative	Gareth Joseph Brown	300	11.1	7.1
	Green	Jean Betteridge	294	10.9	2.7
	Liberal Democrats	Celia Mary Craske	114	4.2	0.7
	TUSC	Sam Hey	81	3.0
Majority			1,579	58.3
Rejected ballots			41	1.5
Turnout			2,709	20.37
Registered electors			13,296
	Labour hold		Swing	3.9

Higher Blackley

Higher Blackley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julie Connolly	1,392	55.3	12.5
	Independent Network	Dean Luke Booth	558	22.2	New
	Green	Vicky Matthews	215	8.5	2.3
	Conservative	Colin Gregory Jones	175	6.9	11.8
	Liberal Democrats	Peter George Matthews	148	5.9	1.4
Majority			834	33.1
Rejected ballots			30	1.2
Turnout			2,518	22.28
Registered electors			11.300
	Labour hold		Swing	17.3

Hulme

Hulme

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lee Glover	1,845	58.4	10.6
	Green	Ekua Bayunu*	1,018	32.2	14.4
	Conservative	Yat Fung Cheung	172	5.4	1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Joe Lynch	126	4.0	2.7
Majority			827	26.2
Rejected ballots			40	1.3
Turnout			3,201	24.81
Registered electors			12,903
	Labour hold		Swing	12.5

Ekua Bayunu was elected as a Labour councillor in 2021 but defected to the Green Party. Changes in vote share reflect the party's vote in 2021 rather than an individual candidate's. On that basis, this ward is a Labour hold.

Levenshulme

Levenshulme

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Zahid Hussain*	1,958	37.8	28.5
	Workers Party	Muhammad Iqbal	1,200	23.2	New
	Green	Amanda Gardner	863	16.7	4.0
	Independent	Jeremy Edward Hoad	761	14.7	3.3
	Liberal Democrats	John Bridges	224	4.3	0.9
	Conservative	Chan Ben Kin	120	2.3	20
Majority			758	14.6
Rejected ballots			57	1.1
Turnout			5,183	37.30
Registered electors			13,895
	Labour hold		Swing	25.8

Longsight

Longsight

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Workers Party	Shahbaz Sarwar	2,444	46.0	New
	Labour	Luthfur Rahman*	2,259	42.5	28.8
	Green	Bernard Joseph Ekbery	253	4.8	0.1
	Conservative	Liberty Rowe	164	3.1	14.2
	Liberal Democrats	Liaqat Ali	110	2.1	2.4
	Independent	Mohammed Aqib Raja	48	0.9	New
Majority			185	3.5
Rejected ballots			38	0.7
Turnout			5,316	38.02
Registered electors			13,981
	Workers Party gain from Labour		Swing	37.4

Miles Platting and Newton Heath

Miles Platting and Newton Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	June Hitchen*	1,876	65.8	4.0
	Independent	Donna Liley	320	11.2	New
	Green	Prashant Kumbhat	295	10.3	0.9
	Conservative	Bassel Ounah	191	6.7	5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Charles William Turner	134	4.7	0.6
Majority			1,556	54.6
Rejected ballots			35	0.9
Turnout			2,851	21.21
Registered electors			13,440
	Labour hold		Swing	7.6

Moss Side

Moss Side

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Esha Mumtaz	1,763	44.5	37.3
	Independent	Ali Guled Olad	988	25.0	New
	Green	Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae	820	22.0	13.7
	Conservative	Bhupinder Kumar	180	4.5	1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Anthony Jones	158	4.0
Majority			775	19.5
Rejected ballots			43	1.1
Turnout			3,952	26.88
Registered electors			14,705
	Labour hold		Swing	31.1

Moston

Moston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sherita Mandongwe	1,982	60.8	4.2
	Green	Diane Lilian Kosandiak	464	14.2	4.7
	Conservative	Popoola Stephen Alabi	452	13.9	6.9
	Liberal Democrats	John Cameron	285	8.7	5.2
Majority			1,518	46.6
Rejected ballots			76	2.3
Turnout			3,259	24.66
Registered electors			13,216
	Labour hold		Swing	4.4

Northenden

Northenden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sam Lynch*	1,741	62.4	1.9
	Green	Sylvia June Buchan	519	18.6	15.5
	Conservative	Ezra McGowan	320	11.5	8.4
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Clayton	164	5.9	1.2
Majority			1,222	43.8
Rejected ballots			45	1.6
Turnout			2,789	25.51
Registered electors			10,931
	Labour hold		Swing	7.3

Old Moat

Old Moat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gavin White*	2,078	63.8	8.6
	Green	Laura Bannister	777	23.9	10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Martin	250	7.7	0.9
	Conservative	Misbah Ahmed	116	3.6	2.6
Majority			1,301	40.0
Rejected ballots			34	1.0
Turnout			3,255	28.13
Registered electors			11.572
	Labour hold		Swing	9.4

Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon-Connor Lyons*	1,453	56.6	5.5
	Green	Scott Robinson	815	31.8	12.1
	Liberal Democrats	Allison Harrison	140	5.5	5.7
	Conservative	Praveen Tomar	129	5.0	2.0
	Communist Future	Sinead Rylance	29	1.1	New
Majority			638	24.8
Rejected ballots			26	1.0
Turnout			2,582	26.90
Registered electors			9,636
	Labour hold		Swing	8.8

Rusholme

Rusholme

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jill Lovecy*	1,608	43.0	32.5
	Workers Party	Naznin Hussain	823	22.0	New
	Independent	Mohammed Wahab Sajjad	555	14.8	New
	Green	Dennis Pirdzuns	413	11.0	0.3
	Conservative	Joseph Bernard Kalokoh	143	3.8	5.4
	Liberal Democrats	Gregory Thomas Sammons	124	3.3	0.6
	Independent	Shahid Qazi	42	1.1
Majority			785	21.0
Rejected ballots			34	0.9
Turnout			3,742	29.8
Registered electors			12,542
	Labour hold		Swing	27.2

Sharston

Sharston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Emma Victoria Taylor*	1,703	68.6	1.5
	Conservative	Glen Richard Sykes	338	13.6	7.7
	Green	Brian Arthur Candeland	270	10.9	3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Martha O'Donoghue	137	5.5	4.6
Majority			1,365	55.0
Rejected ballots			36	1.4
Turnout			2,484	21.5
Registered electors			11,576
	Labour hold		Swing	3.3

Whalley Range

Whalley Range

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Muqaddasah Bano*	2,084	50.6	17.7
	Green	Billie Nagle	980	23.8	0.1
	Workers Party	Tanvir Marth	669	16.2	New
	Liberal Democrats	Seb Bate	180	4.4	1.8
	Conservative	Norman Hesketh-Hart	160	3.9	1.4
Majority			1,104	26.8
Rejected ballots			46	1.1
Turnout			4,119	34.5
Registered electors			11,948
	Labour hold		Swing	8.8

Withington

Withington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Chris Wills*	1,614	44.1	10.1
	Liberal Democrats	April Preston	1,082	29.6	2.7
	Green	Sam Easterby-Smith	835	22.8	13.3
	Conservative	Akbar Arif	99	2.7	1.3
Majority			532	14.5
Rejected ballots			31	0.8
Turnout			3,661	33.2
Registered electors			11,026
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	3.7

Woodhouse Park

Woodhouse Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Rob Nunney*	1,580	59.2	11.2
	Labour	Susan Gwenda Wildman	890	33.3	8.5
	Conservative	Eric Houghton	130	4.9	3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Anna Hablak	71	2.7	1.2
Majority			690	25.6
Rejected ballots			24	0.9
Turnout			2,695	23.3
Registered electors			11,542
	Green hold		Swing	9.8

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