2022 Salford City Council election

2022 Salford City Council election

← 2021 5 May 2022 2023 →
20 of 60 seats on Salford City Council 31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	25.20%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Paul Dennett Les Turner Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Last election 52 seats 9 seats 1 seat Seats won 15 2 2 Seat change 3 1 2 Popular vote 25,051 9,745 5,919 Percentage 53.7% 20.9% 12.7%
Winner of each seat at the 2022 Salford City Council election
Council control before election Labour Subsequent council control Labour

The 2022 Salford City Council election took place on 5 May 2022 along with other local elections across the United Kingdom. One third—20 out of 60—of councillor seats on Salford City Council were up for election.

As with the previous council election in 2021, the Labour Party maintained its longstanding control of the council; Labour lost 3 seats, bringing down its total to 49 of the council's 60 seats. The Conservatives won one additional seat and the Liberal Democrats won two seats. Average city-wide turnout was 25.20%, compared with the overall average turnout of 33.6% for England.^[1]

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. Salford 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, Salford City Council has continuously been under Labour control. In the most recent council election in 2021, all seats in Salford were up to election due to new boundaries. Labour won fifty-two seats, the Conservatives won seven and the Liberal Democrats won one.^[4]

As the Local Government Boundary Commission for England produced new boundaries for Manchester ahead of the 2021 election, meaning that the 2021 elections were all-out, with all councillors being elected before returning to electing by thirds, candidates up for re-election in 2022 are those who came third in each ward in 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.^[5][6] The election will take place by first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally being 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 Salford 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.

Results

Statements of persons nominated were published on 6 April.^[7]

Salford City Council
Party		This election			Full council			This election
		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Labour	15/20	3	75	34	49	81.7	25,051	53.7	-3.7
	Conservative	2/16	1	10	6	8	13.3	9,745	20.9	-4.8
	Liberal Democrats	2/20	1	10	0	2	3.3	5,919	12.7	+6.4
	Independent	1/5	1	5	0	1	1.7	2,010	4.3	+2.5
	Green	0/13	0	0	0	0	0	3,038	6.5	±0.0
	Britain First	0/1	0	0	0	0	0	508	1.1	N/A
	Women's Equality	0/1	0	0	0	0	0	265	0.6	+0.3
	TUSC	0/1	0	0	0	0	0	99	0.2	+0.1

Incumbent councillors who stood for re-election are marked below with an asterisk (*).

Barton & Winton

Blackfriars & Trinity

Boothstown & Ellenbrook

Broughton

Cadishead & Lower Irlam

Claremont

Eccles

Higher Irlam & Peel Green

Kersal & Broughton Park

*prior to the election the incumbent Councillor, Avrohom Walter, had initially been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2021, but left the Liberal Democrats to stand as an Independent candidate in this election.

Little Hulton

Ordsall

Pendlebury & Clifton

Pendleton & Charlestown

Quays

Swinton & Wardley

Swinton Park

Walkden North

Walkden South

Weaste & Seedley

Worsley & Westwood Park

References

This page was last edited on 7 September 2023, at 14:56