Metropolitan City Borough of Manchester
Manchester City Council | |
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 Coat of arms | |
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| Type | |
| Type | Metropolitan borough council of Manchester |
| Leadership | |
Tom Stannard since January 2025 | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 96 councillors[3] |
| Manchester City Council composition | |
Political groups |
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Joint committees | Greater Manchester Combined Authority Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel |
Length of term | 4 years |
| Elections | |
Last election | 2 May 2024 |
Next election | 7 May 2026 |
| Motto | |
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| Meeting place | |
| File:Manchester town hall.jpg | |
| Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester, M60 2LA | |
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Manchester City Council is the local authority for the city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester has had an elected local authority since 1838, which has been reformed several times. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011.
The council has been under Labour majority control since 1971. It is based at Manchester Town Hall.
History
Manchester had been governed as a borough in the 13th and 14th centuries, but its borough status was not supported by a royal charter. An inquiry in 1359 ruled that it was only a market town, not a borough. It was then governed by manorial courts and the parish vestry until the 18th century.[4]
In 1792 a body of improvement commissioners known as the 'Manchester Police Commissioners' was established to provide services in the rapidly growing town. In 1838 the town was incorporated as a municipal borough, after which it was governed by a body formally called the 'mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Manchester', generally known as the corporation or town council. The police commissioners were disbanded in 1843 and their functions passed to the corporation.[5][6]
Manchester was granted city status in 1853, only the second such grant since the Reformation. After that the corporation was also known as the city council.[4] When elected county councils were established in 1889, Manchester was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it became a county borough, independent from the new Lancashire County Council, whilst remaining part of the geographical county of Lancashire.[6]
The city boundaries have been enlarged many times. Notable expansions were 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. The mayor was granted the title of lord mayor in 1893.[7]
Henry Price (1867–1944) was appointed as the first City Architect of Manchester in 1902.[8] He was succeeded in 1932 by George Noel Hill (1893–1985).[9]
The county borough was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, being replaced by a metropolitan district of Manchester, covering the area of the old county borough plus the parish of Ringway. The new district was one of ten metropolitan districts within the new metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.[10] Manchester's borough and city statuses and its lord mayoralty passed to the new district and its council.[11][12]
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.[13]
From 1974 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986 and its functions passed to Greater Manchester's ten borough councils, including Manchester City Council, with some services provided through joint committees.[14]
Since 2011 the council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. The combined authority provides strategic leadership and co-ordination for certain functions across Greater Manchester, notably regarding transport and town planning, but Manchester City Council continues to be responsible for most local government functions.[15][16]
Governance
Manchester City Council provides metropolitan borough services. Some strategic functions in the area are provided by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; the leader of the city council sits on the combined authority as Manchester's representative.[17] There is one civil parish in the city at Ringway, with a parish council; the rest of the city is unparished.[18]
Political control
The council has been under Labour majority control since 1971.
Political control of the council since 1838 has been as follows:[19]
Borough Corporation
| Party | Period | |
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| style="width: 2px; background-color: #ffd700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | | Liberal | 1838-1886 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1886-1889 |
County Borough
| Party | Period | |
|---|---|---|
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1889-1908 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 1908–1919 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1919–1921 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 1921–1926 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1926–1932 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 1932–1934 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1934–1946 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1946–1947 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1947–1949 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 1949–1952 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | | [[No overall control|]] | 1952–1953 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1953–1967 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 1967–1971 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1971–1974 |
Metropolitan Borough
| Party | Period | |
|---|---|---|
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1974–present |
Leadership
The role of Lord Mayor of Manchester is largely ceremonial. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 1930 have been:[20]
County Borough
| Councillor | Party | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F. J. West | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 11 February 1930 | 3 November 1933 |
| J. H. Swales | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 3 November 1933 | 6 October 1937 |
| Samuel Woollam | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 6 Oct 1937 | 2 November 1945 |
| George Titt | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2 November 1945 | 8 Nov 1946 |
| Tom Nally | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 8 November 1946[21] | 1949 |
| William Jackson | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 1949 | 1953 |
| Tom Nally | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1953 | 20 December 1956[22] |
| Bob Thomas | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 20 December 1956 | 22 May 1962 |
| Maurice Pariser | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 22 May 1962[23] | 8 October 1965[24] |
| Bob Thomas | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 3 November 1965[25] | 12 May 1967 |
| Robert Rodgers | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 12 May 1967[26] | 21 May 1970[27] |
| Arnold Fieldhouse | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | | Conservative | 21 May 1970 | 14 May 1971 |
| Bob Thomas | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 14 May 1971[28] | 26 April 1973 |
| Joe Dean | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 26 April 1973 | 28 February 1974 |
| Norman Morris | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 28 February 1974 | 1 April 1974 |
Metropolitan Borough
| Councillor | Party | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norman Morris[29] | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1 April 1974 | 1982 |
| Bill Egerton | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1982 | 1984 |
| Graham Stringer | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1984 | 1996 |
| Richard Leese | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1996 | 1 Dec 2021 |
| Bev Craig | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 1 Dec 2021 | |
Composition
Following the 2024 election, the composition of the council was:[30]
| Party | Councillors | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| After election | Current | ||
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 87 | 86 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | | Liberal Democrat | 4 | 4 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | | Green | 3 | 3 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DB251E;" data-sort-value="Workers Party of Britain" | | Workers Party | 1 | 1 |
| style="width: 2px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | | Independent | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 96 | 95 | |
The next election is due in May 2026.
Elections
Since the last boundary changes in 2018, the council has comprised 96 councillors representing 32 wards, with each ward electing three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council (one councillor for each ward) elected each time for a four-year term of office.[31]
Wards
The council wards are listed under their parliamentary constituency below:
| Blackley and Middleton South | Gorton and Denton | Manchester Central |
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| Manchester Rusholme | Manchester Withington | Wythenshawe and Sale East |
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Councillors
Each ward is represented by three councillors.[32]
| Parliamentary constituency | Ward | Councillor | Party | Term of office | |
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| Blackley and Middleton South constituency |
Charlestown | Basil Curley | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 |
| Umza Jafri | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Veronica Kirkpatrick | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Crumpsall | Fiaz Riasat | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Nasrin Ali | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Mohammad Amin | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Harpurhey | Pat Karney | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Joanne Green | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Sandra Collins | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Higher Blackley | Paula Sadler | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Julie Connolly | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Olusegun Ogunnambo | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Moston | Yasmine Dar | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Sherita Mandongwe | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Paula Appleby | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Gorton and Denton constituency |
Burnage | Azra Ali | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 |
| Bev Craig | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Murtaza Iqbal | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Gorton and Abbey Hey | Afia Kamal | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Julie Reid | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Louis Hughes | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Levenshulme | Basat Sheikh | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Zahid Hussain | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Dzidra Noor | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Longsight | Suzanne Richards | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Shahbaz Sarwar | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DB251E;" data-sort-value="Workers Party of Britain" | | Workers Party | 2024–28 | ||
| Abid Chohan | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Manchester Central constituency |
Ancoats and Beswick | Chris Northwood | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | | Liberal Democrat | 2023–27 |
| Alan Good | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | | Liberal Democrat | 2024–28 | ||
| Irene Robinson | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Cheetham | Shazia Butt | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Shaukat Ali | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Naeem-Ul Hassam | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Clayton and Openshaw | Sean McHale | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Donna Ludford | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Thomas Robinson | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Deansgate | Anthony McCaul | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2023–27 | |
| Marcus Johns | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2024–28 | ||
| Joan Davies | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Miles Platting and Newton Heath | John Flanagan | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| June Hitchin | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Carmine Grimshaw | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Piccadilly | Sam Wheeler | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Jon-Connor Lyons | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Adele Douglas | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Manchester Rusholme constituency |
Ardwick | Amna Abdullatif | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | | Independent[a] | 2023–27 |
| Abdigafar Muse | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Tina Hewitson | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Fallowfield | Jade Doswell | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Ghazala Sadiq | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Ali R. Ilyas | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Hulme | Annette Wright | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Lee Glover | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Lee-Ann Igbon | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Moss Side | Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Esha Mumtaz | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Erinma Bell | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Rusholme | Ahmed Ali | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Jill Lovecy | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Rabnawaz Akbar | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Whalley Range | Angeliki Stogia | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2023–27 | |
| Muqaddasah Bano | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Aftab Razaq | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Manchester Withington constituency |
Chorlton | Mathew Benham | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 |
| Tina Kirwin-McGinley | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| John Hacking | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Chorlton Park | Dave Rawson | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Mandie Shilton-Goodwin | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2024–28 | ||
| Joanna Midgley | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Didsbury East | Leslie Bell | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–27[b] | |
| Linda Foley | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Andrew Simcock | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Didsbury West | Richard Kilpatrick | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | | Liberal Democrat | 2023–27 | |
| Debbie Hilal | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| John Leech | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | | Liberal Democrat | 2022–26 | ||
| Old Moat | Garry Bridges | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Gavin White | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Suzannah Reeves | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Withington | Becky Chambers | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Chris Wills | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2024–28 | ||
| Angela Gartside | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Wythenshawe and Sale East constituency |
Baguley | vacant | 2024–27 | ||
| Tracy Rawlins | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2024–28 | ||
| Paul Andrews | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2022–26 | ||
| Brooklands | Glynn Evans | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Dave Marsh | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Sue Cooley | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Northenden | Richard Fletcher | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2023–27 | |
| Sam Lynch | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Angela Moran | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2022–26 | ||
| Sharston | Tim Whiston | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2023–27 | |
| Emma Taylor | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DC241f;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | | Labour | 2024–28 | ||
| Tommy Judge | style="width: 2px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Co-operative" | | Labour Co-op | 2022–26 | ||
| Woodhouse Park | Anastasia Wiest | style="width: 2px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | | Green | 2023–27 | |
| Rob Nunney | style="width: 2px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | | Green | 2024–28 | ||
| Astrid Johnson | style="width: 2px; background-color: #6AB023;" data-sort-value="Green Party of England and Wales" | | Green | 2022–26 | ||
^a Elected as Labour but resigned from the party in the wake of the Labour leadership's stance on the Israeli invasion of Gaza.[33]
^b Elected during the 2024 election to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of James Wilson, who was elected in 2023.
Premises
The council is based at Manchester Town Hall on Albert Square, completed in 1877,[34] and the adjoining Town Hall Extension on the opposite side of Lloyd Street, which was completed in 1938 and is linked to the older building by first floor bridges.[35] The main Town Hall has been under refurbishment since 2020, due to reopen in 2026. The council continues to operate from the Town Hall Extension.[36][37]
Coat of arms
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.[38]
- The Shield: red (Gules) with three gold (Or) bands drawn diagonally across to the right-hand side.
- The Chief (the white (Argent) top segment): shows a ship at sea in full sail. This is a reference to the city's trading base.
- The Crest: On a multicoloured wreath stands a terrestrial globe, signifying Manchester's world trade, and covered by a swarm of flying bees. The bee was adopted in the 19th century as a symbol of industrial Manchester being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
- The Supporters: On the left, a heraldic antelope with a chain attached to a gold (Or) collar, representing engineering industries, and hanging at the shoulder, the red rose of Lancashire, reflecting Manchester's historic position in Lancashire. On the right, a golden lion stands guardant (facing us), crowned with a red (Gules) castle (a reference to the Roman fort at Castlefield from which the city originated). The lion also wears the Red Rose of Lancashire.
- Motto: Concilio et Labore, loosely translated "By wisdom and effort" (or "By counsel and hard work").
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;[39] was the first sitting of the Court of Chivalry for two hundred years, and it has not sat since.[40]
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?".[41][42]
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...Norman Morris, who has just begun his sixth year as leader of the Labour controlled Manchester city council...
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Further reading
- McKechnie, H. M. (ed.) (1915) Manchester in Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. Manchester U. P.; "Undertakings of the City Council; Social Amelioration in Manchester; Elementary Education in Manchester; Secondary Schools in Manchester; The Evening School System of Manchester", by E. D. Simon, et al.
- Manchester City Council. "Concilio et Labore" Series. No. 1-11. (Each pamphlet describes part of the council's work, e.g. no. 4: the City Treasurer.
- Redford, Arthur (1939) The History of City Government in Manchester; Vol. 2 & 3: Borough and City; The Last Half Century.
- Simon, Ernest D. (1926) A City Council from Within. London: Longmans, Green
- Simon, Shena D. (1938) A Century of City Government: Manchester 1838–1938. London: G. Allen & Unwin
- Tomlinson, H. E. (1943) "The Heraldry of Manchester" in: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library; vol. XXVIII, pp. 207–27
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