2023 Manchester City Council election

The 2023 Manchester City Council elections are scheduled to take place on 4 May 2023 alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom. One third of councillors (33) on Manchester City Council are to be elected.

2023 Manchester City Council election
4 May 2023
33 of 96 seats on Manchester City Council
49 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Bev Craig John Leech Astrid Johnson
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Green
Last election 30 (65.79%) 1 (12.64%) 1 (11.41%)
Map of the wards of Manchester City Council
Incumbent council control

Bev Craig
Labour


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]

Since its formation, Manchester City Council has continuously been under Labour control. In the most recent council election in 2022, Labour won 30 of the 32 seats up for election with 65.4% of the vote, with the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party each winning one seat with 12.7% and 11.4% of the vote across the borough respectively. The Conservatives received 8.8% of the vote but did not win any seats.

Candidates up for re-election in 2023 are those who were elected in 2019.

Council term

Since the 2022 Manchester City Council election councillor Ekua Bayunu, who was elected as a Labour Party candidate in Hulme in 2021, quit the Labour party and joined the Green party.[3]

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.[4][5] Councillors are elected via first-past-the-post voting, with each ward 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 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 2022 election, the composition of the council was:

↓
92 2 2
Labour LD GP

Heading in to the election, the composition of the council is:

↓
91 3 2
Labour GP LD

Candidates

Asterisks denote incumbent councillors seeking re-election. Unless otherwise noted, the councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2019.

Ancoats and Beswick
Ancoats and Beswick[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sarah Ajiboye
Green Jacob Sebastian Buffett
Independent Peter Clifford
Labour Mohammed Majid Dar*
Liberal Democrats Chris Joanne Northwood

Ardwick
Ardwick[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Amna Saad Omar Abdullatif*
Liberal Democrats Abigail Bowden
Liberal Democrats Norman Lewis
Green George Joshua Morris
Labour Abdigafar Mohamed Muse
Conservative Princetta Monica Nicol
Conservative Haider Ali Raja
Green Niall Wright

Baguley
Baguley[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Luke Berry
Labour Co-op Phil Brickell
Liberal Democrats Phil Manktelow
Green Jake Welsh

Brooklands
Brooklands[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Grace Buczkowska
Reform UK Dylan Anthony Evans
Labour Glynn Evans*a
Conservative Stephen James McHugh
Liberal Democrats Mark Saunders

Burnage
Burnage[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Azra Gulshan Ali*
Liberal Democrats John Cameron
Conservative Md Shahed Hossain
Green Dick Venes

Charlestown
Charlestown[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Basil Curley*
Green Paul Dominick Hodges
Conservative Arbab Muhammad Khan
Liberal Democrats Mohamed Balal Sabbagh

Cheetham
Cheetham[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Iftikhar Butt Ahmed
Labour Shazia Butt*
Green Ben Dundas
Liberal Democrats Roderick George Donald Morrison

Chorlton
Chorlton[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mathew Henry Benham
Conservative Keith Berry
Liberal Democrats Rhona Brown
Independent Michael Theo Elston
Green Anne Vivienne Power

Chorlton Park
Chorlton Park[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Amaan Hashmi
Labour Dave Rawson*
Conservative Andrew Tang
Green Richard Miles Stubbs Walton

Clayton and Openshaw
Clayton and Openshaw[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sean Michael Mchale*
Green Billie Nagle
Conservative Ramzi Swaray-Kella
Liberal Democrats Maria Theresa Turner

Crumpsall
Crumpsall[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Richard Mark Clayton
Women's Equality Samantha Days
Green Alison Jane Hawdale
Conservative Fatima Arabab Khan
Labour Fiaz Riasat*

Deansgate
Deansgate[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Joe Lynch
Labour Co-op Anthony John McCaul
Green Chris Perriam
Conservative Paul Wan

Didsbury East
Didsbury East[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Bryn Coombe
Green Anne Elizabeth Guy
Conservative Anjenarra Huque
Independent Paula Jane Matsikidze
Labour Co-op James Martin Wilson*

Didsbury West
Didsbury West[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Social Democratic Wendy Madeleine Andrew
Labour Leslie Bell
Conservative Martin Cartwright
Liberal Democrats Richard Kilpatrick
Green James Young

Fallowfield
Fallowfield[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jade Mary Doswell*
Conservative Sabneena Zareen Hossain
Green Charlie Horatio O'Brien
Liberal Democrats Lynne Williams

Gorton and Abbey Hey
Gorton and Abbey Hey[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mokammel Alam
Labour Afia Begum Kamal*
Liberal Democrats Jackie Pearcey
Green Natasha Turner

Harpurhey
Harpurhey[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gareth Joseph Brown
Green Sam Cook
Liberal Democrats Celia Mary Craske
Labour Patrick Charles Karney*

Higher Blackley
Higher Blackley[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Colin Gregory Jones
Liberal Democrats Peter George Matthews
Green Vicky Matthews
Independent Martin Power
Labour Paula Mary Sadler*

Hulme
Hulme[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Chris Ogden
Liberal Democrats Bernadette Ryan
Conservative Samuel Stephenson
Labour Co-op Annette Patricia Wright*

Levenshulme
Levenshulme[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Patience Assam
Liberal Democrats John Richard Bridges
Green Amanda Gardner
Northern Heart Alim Haider
Independent Jeremy Edward Hoad
Labour Basat Mahmood Sheikh*

Longsight
Longsight[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Kobe Ryan Bibbon
Conservative Shahana Choudhury
Green Bernard Joseph Ekbery
Labour Suzanne Elizabeth Richards*

Miles Platting and Newton Heath
Miles Platting and Newton Heath[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Derek Lee Brocklehurst
Labour John Flanagan*
Green Jonathon Mbay Kazemb
Liberal Democrats Charles William Turner

Moss Side
Moss Side[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae
Conservative Michael Anthony Ciotkowski
Liberal Democrats Robin Francis Grayson
Labour Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed*

Moston
Moston[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Popoola Stephen Alabi
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Jennifer Bain
Labour Yasmine Dar*
Green Diane Lilian Kosandiak

Northenden
Northenden[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Monster Raving Loony Sir Oink A-Lot
Green Sylvia June Buchan
Labour Richard William Alston
Conservative Jamie Hoyle
Liberal Democrats Chris Rogers

Old Moat
Old Moat[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Laura Bannister
Labour Garry Paul Bridges*
Liberal Democrats Jon Martin
Conservative Ugo Nzeribe

Piccadilly
Piccadilly[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Luke Robert Allan
Conservative Malik Haris
Green Scott Andrew Robinson
Labour Samuel Kaine Wheeler*
Reform UK Jeffrey Wong

Rusholme
Rusholme[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ahmed Ali*
Conservative Jason Peter McLeod
Green Dennis Pirdzuns
Liberal Democrats Greg Sammons

Sharston
Sharston[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Brian Arthur Candleland
Conservative Daniel Christopher Johnson
Liberal Democrats Ellin Saunders
Labour Tim Whiston*

Whalley Range
Whalley Range[35]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Seb Bate
Green Laura Lee Anne Potter
Labour Angeliki Stogia*
Conservative Praveen Tomar

Withington
Withington[36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Becky Chambers*
Green Sam Easterby-Smith
Liberal Democrats April Preston
Conservative Benjamin Harvey Spencer

Woodhouse Park
Woodhouse Park[37]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Anna Hablak
Conservative Eric Houghton
Labour Dave Marsh
Green Anastasia Cynthia

Notes
a.^ Incumbent councillor elected in the 2021 Manchester City Council election.


References
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  16. "Statement as to Persons Nominated - Crumpsall". Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  17. "Statement as to Persons Nominated - Deansgate". Retrieved 7 April 2023.
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  19. "Statement as to Persons Nominated - Didsbury West". Retrieved 7 April 2023.
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