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Winner of each seat at the 2024 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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]
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.
2024 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election | ||||||||||
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Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
Labour | 14 | 2 | 70.0 | 30 | 44 | 73.3 | 22,717 | 42.1 | –9.1 | |
Conservative | 3 | 15.0 | 6 | 9 | 15.0 | 10,003 | 18.5 | –3.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 5.0 | 2 | 3 | 5.0 | 6,345 | 11.8 | +0.3 | ||
Workers Party | 2 | 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 2 | 3.3 | 7,234 | 13.4 | N/A | |
Middleton Ind. | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | 3.3 | 3,971 | 7.4 | +0.8 | ||
Green | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,640 | 3.0 | –4.2 | ||
Independent | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,262 | 2.3 | +1.1 | ||
Reform UK | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 788 | 1.5 | N/A | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Daniel Joseph Meredith | 1,086 | 52.9 | –5.5 | |
Workers Party | William Howarth | 395 | 19.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Leonard Keith Branton | 298 | 14.5 | –8.9 | |
Green | Mick Coats | 150 | 7.3 | –2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Swarbrick | 122 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 691 | 33.6 | |||
Turnout | 2,051 | 24.8 | |||
Registered electors | 8,277 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Michael Beal | 1,394 | 42.1 | –11.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Lewis Chadwick Woodall | 850 | 25.6 | –9.6 | |
Workers Party | Jamil Akhtar | 794 | 24.0 | N/A | |
Green | Peter Corby | 182 | 5.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Zarah Kauser | 95 | 2.9 | –8.1 | |
Majority | 544 | 16.5 | |||
Turnout | 3,344 | 40.9 | |||
Registered electors | 8,176 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 1.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Aisling Gallagher* | 899 | 34.8 | –4.6 | |
Independent | David Jones | 569 | 22.0 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Malcolm Thomas Bywater | 413 | 16.0 | –5.1 | |
Workers Party | Thomas James Byrne | 391 | 15.1 | N/A | |
Green | Jonathan Edward Kershaw | 183 | 7.1 | –2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sharon Harrison | 132 | 5.1 | –5.0 | |
Majority | 330 | 12.8 | |||
Turnout | 2,602 | 33.2 | |||
Registered electors | 7,847 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 3.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Workers Party | Farooq Ahmed | 2,016 | 53.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Ali Ahmed* | 1,541 | 40.5 | –32.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Naveed Akhtar | 144 | 3.8 | –13.8 | |
Conservative | Shajan Ali | 106 | 2.8 | –6.7 | |
Majority | 475 | 12.5 | |||
Turnout | 3,855 | 42.4 | |||
Registered electors | 9,099 | ||||
Workers Party gain from Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dylan James Williams* | 1,974 | 67.9 | +6.2 | |
Middleton Ind. | Bernard Peter Wynne | 709 | 24.4 | –2.7 | |
Conservative | Gillian Louise Jackson | 183 | 6.3 | –4.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Barrie Nicholson | 40 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,265 | 43.5 | |||
Turnout | 2,910 | 34.4 | |||
Registered electors | 8,468 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 4.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Shah Wazir | 1,086 | 37.7 | –31.2 | |
Conservative | Paul Simon Ellison | 618 | 21.5 | –1.1 | |
Workers Party | Amr Nazir | 591 | 20.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Andy Lord | 487 | 16.9 | +8.4 | |
Green | Anja Jungmayr | 96 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 468 | 16.2 | |||
Turnout | 2,903 | 36.7 | |||
Registered electors | 7,904 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 15.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Carol Elizabeth Wardle* | 1,220 | 50.1 | –14.8 | |
Reform UK | Steve Potter | 380 | 15.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Claudius Chonzi | 346 | 14.2 | –4.5 | |
Middleton Ind. | Caitlin Victoria O'mara | 302 | 12.4 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Iain Donaldson | 189 | 7.8 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 840 | 34.5 | |||
Turnout | 2,462 | 28.7 | |||
Registered electors | 8,592 | ||||
Labour hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Daalat Ali* | 1,197 | 41.6 | –27.0 | |
Workers Party | Haroon Nawaz Khan | 811 | 28.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Saghir Ahmed | 323 | 11.2 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Lynn Butterworth | 297 | 10.3 | –5.7 | |
Green | Mark Hollinrake | 247 | 8.6 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 386 | 13.4 | |||
Turnout | 2,902 | 34.8 | |||
Registered electors | 8,346 | ||||
Labour hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Tom Besford* | 1,436 | 54.9 | +10.8 | |
Conservative | Ian Spencer Jackson | 946 | 36.1 | –7.8 | |
Green | Hannah Macguire | 182 | 7.0 | –2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Safina Kauser | 36 | 1.4 | –1.2 | |
Workers Party | Uzair Mehmood | 17 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 490 | 18.8 | |||
Turnout | 2,640 | 36.0 | |||
Registered electors | 7,342 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | 9.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Workers Party | Minaam Ellahi | 1,812 | 62.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Shahid Mohammed* | 713 | 24.5 | –55.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rifat Mahmood | 152 | 5.2 | –4.6 | |
Conservative | Philip Edward Starr | 118 | 4.1 | –2.1 | |
Green | Feruz Ali | 111 | 3.8 | –0.2 | |
Majority | 1,099 | 37.9 | |||
Turnout | 2,906 | 37.4 | |||
Registered electors | 7,778 | ||||
Workers Party gain from Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Andy Kelly* | 1,684 | 55.6 | +8.4 | |
Labour | Avis Kay Gilmore | 936 | 30.9 | –3.1 | |
Conservative | Aidan James Forshaw | 233 | 7.7 | –5.0 | |
Green | Feruz Ali | 111 | 3.7 | –2.4 | |
Workers Party | Jordan Rashida | 64 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 748 | 24.7 | |||
Turnout | 3,050 | 36.1 | |||
Registered electors | 8,452 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 5.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Winkler* | 1,448 | 48.5 | –5.4 | |
Labour | Sue Moore-Holmes | 968 | 32.4 | +8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephanie Robertson | 233 | 7.8 | –6.3 | |
Green | Sarah Croke | 188 | 6.3 | –2.1 | |
Workers Party | Sana Aziz | 147 | 4.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 480 | 16.1 | |||
Turnout | 3,005 | 37.3 | |||
Registered electors | 8,050 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 7.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul O'Neill | 1,009 | 53.2 | –25.4 | |
Reform UK | Mike Howard | 408 | 21.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jordan Tarrant-Short | 305 | 16.1 | –5.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jennifer Kelly | 109 | 5.7 | N/A | |
Workers Party | Saliah Begum | 66 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 601 | 31.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,913 | 24.1 | |||
Registered electors | 7,942 | ||||
Labour hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kathryn Bromfield | 1,294 | 48.3 | –1.7 | |
Middleton Ind. | Keely O'Mara | 1,163 | 43.4 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Aaron Slack | 177 | 6.6 | –2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chariss Peacock | 46 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 131 | 4.9 | |||
Turnout | 2,690 | 29.9 | |||
Registered electors | 8,987 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Blundell* | 1,094 | 48.0 | –3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Zulfiqar Ali | 820 | 36.0 | +9.1 | |
Conservative | Eileen Taylor | 365 | 16.0 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 274 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | 2,336 | 27.4 | |||
Registered electors | 8,516 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 6.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | June West* | 1,571 | 51.0 | –0.8 | |
Middleton Ind. | Lee Wolf | 1,030 | 33.4 | +1.6 | |
Conservative | Tracy Furnell | 389 | 12.6 | –3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tony Hughes | 91 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 541 | 17.6 | |||
Turnout | 3,103 | 35.6 | |||
Registered electors | 8,726 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Faisal Rana* | 1,297 | 42.6 | –6.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rabina Asghar | 849 | 27.9 | –10.2 | |
Independent | Carl Faulkner | 693 | 22.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ann Conway | 208 | 6.8 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 448 | 14.7 | |||
Turnout | 3,064 | 35.7 | |||
Registered electors | 8,585 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Adam Branton | 1,515 | 60.3 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Farhat Kazmi | 442 | 17.6 | –9.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kim Ho | 317 | 12.6 | +6.8 | |
Green | Martyn Savin | 190 | 7.6 | +0.2 | |
Workers Party | Ali Shahid | 49 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,073 | 42.7 | |||
Turnout | 2,540 | 30.7 | |||
Registered electors | 8,276 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 5.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Joinson | 1,080 | 53.0 | –7.4 | |
Conservative | Stephen Spencer-Jones | 490 | 24.0 | –3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Shaw | 387 | 19.0 | +7.2 | |
Workers Party | Umar Malik | 81 | 4.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 590 | 29.0 | |||
Turnout | 2,064 | 23.7 | |||
Registered electors | 8,709 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Smith* | 1,024 | 50.3 | –10.6 | |
Middleton Ind. | Janene Walker | 767 | 37.7 | +12.1 | |
Conservative | Matt Roughsedge | 154 | 7.6 | –0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nikki Edwards | 89 | 4.4 | –0.5 | |
Majority | 257 | 12.6 | |||
Turnout | 2,047 | 27.4 | |||
Registered electors | 7,475 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 11.4 | |||
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