2019 Manchester City Council election

Elections to Manchester City Council were held on 2 May 2019, as part of the 2019 United Kingdom local elections. In 2018 Labour retained its majority of the council with 94 seats to the Liberal Democrats making up the opposition of 2, led by former MP John Leech.

2019 Manchester City Council election

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33 of 96 seats (One Third) to Manchester City Council
49 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
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Leader Richard Leese John Leech
Party Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader since 20 May 1996 5 May 2016
Leader's seat Crumpsall Didsbury West
Last election 33 0
Seats won 32 1
Seat change Decrease1 Increase1
Popular vote 56,380 13,358
Percentage 58.6% 13.9%
Swing Decrease6.19%

Leader of Largest Party before election

Richard Leese
Labour

Leader of Largest Party after election

Richard Leese
Labour

Background and campaign

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Labour won every seat on Manchester City Council between 2011 and 2015. In 2016, former Liberal Democrat MP John Leech, who lost his seat in Manchester Withington in the 2015 General Election won a seat in Didsbury West and was joined by another Liberal Democrat Councillor in 2018.[1]

Following the resignation of Fallowfield councillor Grace Fletcher-Hackwood on 19 March, two vacancies were filled in the Fallowfield ward; the candidate who received the most votes won the full four-year term and the second placed candidate took over the three years remaining of the vacant seat.[2]

On 25 March, Manchester Lib Dem leader John Leech launched his party's manifesto for the 2019 elections.[3] This was followed by the Green Party launching their manifesto for the local elections on 9 April.

On 15 April, The Times uncovered a number of offensive tweets from Fallowfield Labour candidate Jade Doswell.[4] In 2014, 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’.[5] She apologised on a private Facebook post.[6]

On 17 April, Manchester Evening News reported that the Liberal Democrat candidate for Hulme, Daniel Tóth-Nagy, had been suspended from the party after tweeting "There is no such thing as Islamophobia" and making other comments deemed Islamophobic. Tóth-Nagy denied that he had ever "express[ed] hatred or violent against any person", but the party issued a statement condemning the comments and immediately withdrew their support for him.[7][8]

On 30 April, the Manchester Evening News reported that the Conservative candidate for Charlestown, Charalampos Kagouras, had been dropped by the party as a candidate due to years of racist and Islamophobic posts on social media.[9]

Result

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Map of the results of the 2019 Manchester council election, with Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in amber.

Changes are compared with the 2018 results. Socialist Alternative changes in vote share are compared to the results for Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Where 2 seats were contested simultaneously due to a vacancy the results for that ward have been normalised.

Manchester City Council[10]
Party This election Full council This election
Seats Net Seats % Other Total Total % Votes Votes % +/−
  Labour 32/33  1 97.0 61 93 96.9 55,134 58.60  11.40
  Liberal Democrats 1/33  1 3.0 2 3 3.1 13,188 14.02  1.23
  Green 0/33 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 12,164 13.04  6.50
  Conservative 0/33 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 6,212 6.58  2.70
  UKIP 0/14 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 4,155 4.42  4.15
  Independent 0/7 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 2,735 2.91  2.27
  Women's Equality 0/4 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 418 0.44  0.22
  For Britain 0/1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 38 0.04 n/a
  Socialist Alternative 0/1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 25 0.03  0.09
  Communist League 0/1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 12 0.01  

Council composition

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Before the election, the composition of the council was:

94 2
Labour LD

After the election, the composition of the council is:

93 3
Labour LD

Ward results

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Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2018, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis.

Ancoats and Beswick

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Ancoats and Beswick[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mohammed Majid Dar* 1,192 55.6  0.6
Green Robyn Schreibke 378 17.6  0.8
Liberal Democrats Jane McQueen 236 11.0  2.0
Conservative Daniel Bell 187 8.7  2.1
UKIP Trevor Wongsam 143 6.7 n/a
Majority 814 37.9  1.4
Rejected ballots 9 0.42
Turnout 2,145 21.28  
Registered electors 10,079
Labour hold Swing  0.75

Ardwick

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Ardwick[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Amna Abdullatif 1,692 71.2  2.4
Liberal Democrats George Rice 243 10.2  4.1
Green Kara Ng 242 10.2  2.1
Conservative Archie Galbraith 171 7.2  0.2
Majority 1,449 61.0
Rejected ballots 28 1.18
Turnout 2,376 19.04  1.2
Registered electors 12,480
Labour hold Swing  0.85

Baguley

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Baguley[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Luke Raikes* 1,192 52.7  2.5
UKIP Paul O'Donoughue 364 16.1 n/a
Conservative Peter Harrop 343 15.2  0.7
Green Sarah Mander 222 9.8  0.5
Liberal Democrats Nick Saunders 107 4.7  0.2
Communist League Hugo Wils 12 0.5 n/a
Majority 828 36.6  7.0
Rejected ballots 22 0.97
Turnout 2,264 20.26
Registered electors 11,176
Labour hold Swing  6.8

Brooklands

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Brooklands[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sue Murphy* 1,336 49.3  1.3
Conservative Stephen Carlton-Woods 463 17.1  9.9
UKIP Kathy Mason 389 14.4 n/a
Green Grace Buczkowska 301 11.1  
Liberal Democrats Sebastian Bate 203 7.5  2.7
Majority 873 32.2  7.6
Rejected ballots 18 0.66
Turnout 2,710 24.29  0.8
Registered electors 11,157
Labour hold Swing  4.3

Burnage

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Burnage[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Azra Ali* 2,337 64.0  0.7
Liberal Democrats Andrea Timoney 570 15.6  2.2
Green Benjamin Dundas 362 9.9  0.6
UKIP Ian Rae 233 6.4 n/a
Conservative Shahed Hossain 149 4.1  1.5
Majority 1,767 48.2  2.7
Rejected ballots 18 0.49
Turnout 3,668 28.66  3.9
Registered electors 12,800
Labour hold Swing  1.45

Charlestown

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Charlestown[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Basil Curley* 1,387 52.8  3.2
Independent Anthony Brennan 415 15.8  2.1
UKIP Stephen O'Neill 387 14.7 n/a
Conservative Charalampos Kagkouras 180 6.8  6.8
Green Astrid Johnson 159 6.0  3.9
Liberal Democrats Charles Turner 88 3.3  3.0
Majority 972 37.0  0.9
Rejected ballots 13 0.49
Turnout 2,629 22.25  0.8
Registered electors 11,817
Labour hold Swing  0.55

Cheetham

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Cheetham[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shazia Butt 3,047 81.0  10.4
Green Dave Taylor 183 4.9  2.0
Independent Rafique Malik 150 4.0 n/a
UKIP James Miller 121 3.2 n/a
Liberal Democrats Gary McKenna 117 3.1  2.0
Conservative Azmat Husain 109 2.9  1.6
Majority 2,864 76.2  16.9
Rejected ballots 33 0.88
Turnout 3,760 30.35  1.3
Registered electors 12,390
Labour hold Swing  6.2

Chorlton

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Chorlton[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Matt Strong* 2,574 57.0  3.0
Green Mary Crumpton 950 21.0  6.3
Liberal Democrats Lizzy Bain 575 12.7  0.3
Conservative Keith Berry 212 4.7  0.4
Women's Equality Jo Heathcote 146 3.2  6.2
Independent Michael Elston 59 1.3  1.6
Majority 1,624 35.7  9.5
Rejected ballots 29 0.64
Turnout 4,545 43.50  2.8
Registered electors 10,452
Labour hold Swing  4.65

Chorlton Park

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Chorlton Park[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Dave Rawson* 2,577 54.3  1.0
Green Mary Candeland 1,042 22.0  9.5
Liberal Democrats Amaan Hashmi 857 18.1  5.0
Conservative Christopher Halliday 269 5.7  1.7
Majority 1,535 32.1  2.2
Rejected ballots 42 0.88
Turnout 4,787 37.10  4.2
Registered electors 12,904
Labour hold Swing  5.25

Clayton and Openshaw

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Clayton and Openshaw[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sean McHale* 1,346 44.6  9.0
Independent Ken Dobson 1,334 44.2  23.9
Green Jake Welsh 109 3.6  3.7
Conservative Fahim Ahmad Choudhury 106 3.5  3.8
Liberal Democrats Maria Turner 99 3.3  2.2
Majority 12 0.40  33.0
Rejected ballots 21 0.70
Turnout 3,015 25.05  1.5
Registered electors 12,036
Labour hold Swing  16.45

Crumpsall

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Crumpsall[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Fiaz Riazat* 2,402 71.6  4.8
Conservative Sham Akhtar 294 8.8  1.8
Green Adam King 214 6.4  1.5
UKIP Ernest Willescroft 159 4.7  0.8
Liberal Democrats Andrew McGuinness 143 4.3  1.2
Women's Equality Samantha Days 82 2.4 n/a
For Britain Brian Sallis 38 1.1 n/a
Majority 2,108 62.9  6.7
Rejected ballots 22 0.66
Turnout 3,354 29.96  4.0
Registered electors 11,203
Labour hold Swing  3.3

Deansgate

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Deansgate[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Jeavons* 497 34.8  4.0
Liberal Democrats John Bridges 449 31.4  6.7
Green Christopher Ogden 252 17.6  3.4
Conservative Connor Watson 126 8.8  3.9
Women's Equality Sam Johnson 105 7.3  3.9
Majority 48 3.36  10.7
Rejected ballots 9 0.63
Turnout 1429 19.81  0.43
Registered electors 7,258
Labour hold Swing  5.35

Didsbury East

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Didsbury East[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Wilson* 1,948 41.9  4.3
Liberal Democrats John Cameron 1,889 40.6  5.8
Green Wendy Lynas 491 10.6  0.1
Conservative James Flanagan 286 6.2  1.3
Majority 59 1.27  9.7
Rejected ballots 34 0.73
Turnout 4,648 41.71  2.9
Registered electors 11,144
Labour hold Swing  5.05

Didsbury West

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Didsbury West[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Greg Stanton 2,214 50.2  9.1
Labour David Ellison* 1,490 33.8  7.7
Green Arnold Spencer 430 9.8  3.0
Conservative Anjenarra Haque 170 3.9  1.9
Women's Equality Sarika Paul 85 1.9 N/A
Majority 724 16.4
Rejected ballots 18 0.73
Turnout 4,407 37.60  0.9
Registered electors 11,717
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing  8.4

Fallowfield

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Fallowfield (2)[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jade Doswell 1,279 65.1  4.7
Labour Ali R. Ilyas* 1,213 61.7  0.5
Green Lottie Donovan 371 18.9  2.4
Green Anne Power 315 16.0  0.5
Liberal Democrats Lauren Coleman-Bennett 191 9.7  1.6
Liberal Democrats Jamie Dwan 148 7.5  0.6
Conservative 111 5.6  0.4
Conservative Rory Tinker 92 4.7  1.2
Majority 842 42.8  2.9
Rejected ballots 25 1.27
Turnout 1,965 16.55  0.4
Registered electors 11,879
Labour hold Swing  3.75
Labour hold Swing

Gorton and Abbey Hey

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Gorton and Abbey Hey[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Afia Kamal* 1,464 47.3  2.0
Liberal Democrats Jackie Pearcey 818 26.4  2.7
UKIP Katie Fanning 418 13.5 N/A
Green Paul Davies 208 6.7  1.1
Conservative Jake Feeley 170 5.5  6.1
Majority 646 20.86  4.83
Rejected ballots 19 0.61
Turnout 3,097 24.18  
Registered electors 12,810
Labour hold Swing  2.35

Harpurhey

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Harpurhey[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Pat Karney* 1,510 63.1  4.1
UKIP Michael Felse 319 13.3 n/a
Conservative Gareth Brown 232 9.7  6.7
Green Vicky Matthews 215 9.0  2.5
Liberal Democrats Lynne Williams 102 4.3 n/a
Majority 1,191 49.8  7.2
Rejected ballots 15 0.63
Turnout 2,393 19.24  0.8
Registered electors 12,445
Labour hold Swing  4.6

Higher Blackley

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Higher Blackley[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paula Sadler* 1,378 56.4  4.8
UKIP Lee Seville 431 17.6 n/a
Liberal Democrats Peter Matthews 230 9.4  1.3
Green Adrian Thompson 214 8.8  2.0
Conservative Alexandru Stancu 190 7.8  3.0
Majority 947 38.8  4.9
Rejected ballots 14 0.57
Turnout 2,443 21.78  0.9
Registered electors 11,283
Labour hold Swing  11.2

Hulme

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Hulme[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Annette Wright* 1,530 62.1  0.4
Green Issy Patience 620 25.2  7.6
Liberal Democrats Dániel Tóth-Nagy 163 6.6  
Conservative Jessica Beaumont 125 6.6  0.7
Majority 910 36.9  5.2
Rejected ballots 26 1.06
Turnout 2464 21.60  0.7
Registered electors 11,408
Labour hold Swing  3.6
  • On 17 April, Dániel Tóth-Nagy was suspended by the Liberal Democrats over allegedly Islamophobic comments made on social media.[11]


Levenshulme

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Levenshulme[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Basat Mahmood Sheikh* 2,524 65.9  0.8
Green Dick Venes 604 15.8  2.7
Liberal Democrats Andrew Hickey 370 9.7  0.9
UKIP Bob Catterall 218 5.7  1.9
Conservative James Smith 88 2.3  1.0
Majority 1,920 50.2  3.6
Rejected ballots 24 0.63
Turnout 3,828 31.02  2.9
Registered electors 12,344
Labour hold Swing  1.75

Longsight

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Longsight[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Suzanne Richards* 2,501 76.5  4.0
Conservative Shahana Choudhary 344 10.5  5.6
Liberal Democrats Kobe Bibbon 214 6.5  2.9
Green Bernard Ekbery 189 5.8  0.2
Majority 2,157 65.9  1.0
Rejected ballots 23 0.70
Turnout 3,271 26.44  2.5
Registered electors 12,370
Labour hold Swing  0.8

Miles Platting and Newton Heath

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Miles Platting and Newton Heath[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Flanagan* 1,601 60.3  3.0
UKIP Christopher Owen 459 17.3  6.7
Green Stephanie Wyatt 213 8.0  1.6
Independent Francesco Falcioni 133 5.0 n/a
Conservative Michael Ciotkowski 128 4.8  4.0
Liberal Democrats Simon Lepori 101 3.8 n/a
Majority 1,142 43.0  9.7
Rejected ballots 21 0.79
Turnout 2,656 21.25  1.1
Registered electors 12,499
Labour hold Swing  4.95

Moss Side

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Moss Side[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed* 2,485 78.9  10.2
Green Kristine Pearson 339 10.8  0.3
Liberal Democrats Andrew Stevens 186 5.9  0.9
Conservative Luke Costello 109 3.5  0.2
Majority 2,146 68.1  9.9
Rejected ballots 30 0.95
Turnout 3,149 24.98  3.0
Registered electors 12,600
Labour hold Swing  4.95

Moston

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Moston[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Yasmine Dar* 1,430 46.5  10.1
Independent Mike Pattillo 527 17.1 n/a
UKIP Mark Davies 467 15.1 n/a
Conservative Stephen McHugh 309 10.1  9.8
Green Eithne Quinn 181 5.9  6.2
Liberal Democrats Charles Glover 118 3.8 n/a
Socialist Alternative Grace Donaghey 25 0.8 n/a
Majority 901 29.3  5.8
Rejected ballots 17 0.55
Turnout 3,074 24.02  2.0
Registered electors 12,797
Labour hold Swing  13.6

Northenden

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Northenden[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sarah Russell* 1,431 56.9  0.5
Green Simon Gray 389 15.5  0.6
Conservative Ralph Ellerton 349 13.9  3.1
Liberal Democrats Mark Saunders 231 9.2  3.2
Independent Donald Oink A-Lot 117 4.6  3.3
Majority 1,042 41.4  3.1
Rejected ballots 20 0.79
Turnout 2,517 23.42  2.7
Registered electors 10,832
Labour hold Swing  0.05

Old Moat

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Old Moat[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Garry Bridges* 1,754 62.9  5.4
Green Bonnie Boulton 468 16.8  0.2
Liberal Democrats Jon Martin 386 13.8  0.2
Conservative Tom Benbow 144 5.2  0.9
Majority 1,286 46.1  5.6
Rejected ballots 37 1.33
Turnout 2,789 26.27  1.5
Registered electors 10,628
Labour hold Swing  2.8

Piccadilly

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Piccadilly[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sam Wheeler* 596 42.6  9.7
Liberal Democrats Joe Lynch 357 25.5  3.5
Green Brian Candeland 336 24.0  0.3
Conservative Paul Wan 98 7.0  2.2
Majority 239 17.1  11.9
Rejected ballots 13 0.93  0.43
Turnout 1,400 19.58  0.50
Registered electors 7,149
Labour hold Swing  6.6

Rusholme

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Rusholme[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ahmed Ali* 2,266 74.9  2.6
Green Kate Walsh Benson 384 12.7  0.2
Liberal Democrats Holly Matthies 201 6.6  2.5
Conservative Shazia Anjum 148 4.9  0.9
Majority 1,882 62.2  2.4
Rejected ballots 27 0.89
Turnout 3,026 26.19  1.0
Registered electors 11,555
Labour hold Swing  1.2

Sharston

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Sharston[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Tim Whiston 1,286 56.7  8.1
UKIP Philip Matthews 403 17.8 n/a
Green Sylvia Buchan 247 10.9  1.4
Conservative Jagdeep Mehat 191 8.4  4.5
Liberal Democrats Helen Shaw 135 5.9  0.8
Majority 883 38.9  5.2
Rejected ballots 7 0.31
Turnout 2,269 19.73  0.1
Registered electors 11,501
Labour Co-op hold Swing  12.95

Whalley Range

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Whalley Range[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Angeliki Stogia* 2,524 69.1  12.5
Green Eliza Tyrell 777 21.3  5.3
Liberal Democrats Philip Manktelow 199 5.4  2.6
Conservative David Semple 123 3.4  0.1
Majority 1,747 47.8  22.2
Rejected ballots 32 0.88
Turnout 3,655 33.19  3.7
Registered electors 11,013
Labour Co-op hold Swing  8.9

Withington

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Withington[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Becky Chambers 1,442 44.6  11.5
Liberal Democrats April Preston 1,339 41.4  8.4
Green Nathan Rae 331 10.2  5.2
Conservative Shaden Jaradat 101 3.1  1.5
Majority 103 3.2  10.6
Rejected ballots 21 0.65
Turnout 3,234 31.27  0.77
Registered electors 10,341
Labour hold Swing  9.5

Woodhouse Park

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Woodhouse Park[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Eddy Newman* 1,149 51.4  11.3
Green Rob Nunney 771 34.5  28.2
Conservative Ken Wedderburn 195 8.7  5.7
Liberal Democrats Anna Hablak 79 3.5  1.5
Majority 378 16.9  28.1
Rejected ballots 42 2.06
Turnout 2,236 20.36  2.36
Registered electors 10,989
Labour hold Swing  19.75

Changes since this election

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On 24 July 2019 it was reported that Majid Dar (Ancoats and Beswick) had been suspended by the Labour Party.[12] He was readmitted to the party and to the Labour group on the council without formal announcement.[13]

On 18 March 2020 Greg Stanton (Didsbury West) resigned from the Liberal Democrats to sit as an independent. Later, in April, he joined the Labour Party.[14]

On 7 April 2020 (2020-04-07), Sue Murphy (Brooklands) died after a long illness.[15]

Clayton and Openshaw by-election

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Clayton and Openshaw councillor Andy Harland died in December 2019.[16] A by-election took place on Thursday 27 February 2020 to fill the vacancy.[17] Changes are compared with the 2019 result.

By-election: Clayton & Openshaw - 27th February 2020[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ken Dobson 1,191 47.9  3.4
Labour Sherita Mandongwe 1,083 43.6  1.4
Conservative Sham Raja Akhtar 102 4.1  0.6
Liberal Democrats Claude-Diele Nsumbu 57 2.3  1.0
Green Jake Welsh 51 2.1  1.6
Majority 112 3.3 N/A
Rejected ballots 5 0.2
Turnout 2,489 19.7
Registered electors 12,623
Independent gain from Labour Swing  2.4

References

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