Andrew Murray Burnham is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. He served in Gordon Brown's Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2007 to 2008,Culture Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Health Secretary from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,Burnham identifies as a socialist and as belonging to the party's soft left. He served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2015 to 2016 and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 2001 to 2017.
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd is a British politician who has discontinuously served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983. Representing Rochdale since 2017,he served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997 and Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012. A member of the Labour Party,Lloyd was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner and later interim Mayor of Greater Manchester between 2012 and 2017.
The Community Action Party was a minor political party in the United Kingdom,mostly active in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. It advocated free health care and education provision,a managed public transport infrastructure free to all at the point of use and a moratorium on the use of green belt land for building. It also supported a zero tolerance policy toward crime,and was against the introduction of identity cards and recent anti-terrorist legislation on civil liberties grounds.
Salford City Council elections are generally held three years out of every four,with a third of the council being elected each time. Salford City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Salford in Greater Manchester,England. Since the last boundary changes in 2020,60 councillors have been elected from 20 wards.
Manchester City Council is the local authority for Manchester,a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester,England. Manchester is the sixth largest city in England by population. Its city council is composed of 96 councillors,three for each of the 32 electoral wards of Manchester. The council is controlled by the Labour Party and led by Bev Craig. The official opposition is the Green Party with four councillors. Joanne Roney is the chief executive. Many of the council's staff are based at Manchester Town Hall.
The Greater Manchester congestion charge was part of a bid to the Government's Transport Innovation Fund for a £3-billion package of transport funding and the introduction of a road congestion charge for Greater Manchester,a metropolitan county in North West England. In 2008,two cordons were proposed—the outer encircling the main urban core of the Greater Manchester Urban Area and the inner covered Manchester city centre. The Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund was rejected by a referendum on 12 December 2008.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is a combined authority for Greater Manchester,England. It was established on 1 April 2011 and consists of 11 members;10 indirectly elected members,each a directly elected councillor from one of the ten metropolitan boroughs that comprise Greater Manchester,together with the directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester. The authority derives most of its powers from the Local Government Act 2000 and Local Democracy,Economic Development and Construction Act 2009,and replaced a range of single-purpose joint boards and quangos to provide a formal administrative authority for Greater Manchester for the first time since the abolition of Greater Manchester County Council in 1986.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester is the directly elected metro mayor of Greater Manchester,responsible for strategic governance in the region that includes health,transport,housing,strategic planning,waste management,policing,the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and skills. The creation of the Mayor of Greater Manchester was agreed between the then Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne,and Greater Manchester's 10 district council leaders. As well as having specific powers,the mayor chairs the Greater Manchester Combined Authority,also assuming the powers of the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner.
Ian Hopkins is a former senior British police officer. From October 2015 to December 2020,he was the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police.
The inaugural Greater Manchester mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of Greater Manchester. The next successive election was due to be held on 7 May 2020,but due to that year's outbreak of the novel Coronavirus,the election was postponed until May 2021. Subsequent elections are legislatively required to be held every four years thereafter. The electoral system used for the election is the supplementary vote (SV).
The Greater Manchester Labour Party mayoral selection of 2016 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester,to stand in the mayoral election on 4 May 2017. On 9 August 2016,The Labour Party announced that Andy Burnham had won the candidacy.
Carl Jason Austin-Behan is a British former politician and community activist who currently serves as LGBT adviser to the Mayor of Greater Manchester. He served as Lord Mayor of Manchester from May 2016 to May 2017,being its first openly gay Lord Mayor. He was Labour councillor for Burnage from 2011 to 2018.
The 2021 Greater Manchester mayoral election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of Greater Manchester. This election,alongside other local and mayoral elections across England and Wales,was originally scheduled to take place on 7 May 2020,but was delayed by the UK Government on 13 March 2020,due to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. The election took place on the same day as council elections within the city-region,including the election for the mayor of Salford,as well as elections across England and Wales. It was the second election to the position of mayor. It used the supplementary vote as its electoral system.
Sean Brian Anstee is an English Conservative Party politician and businessman. He was formerly the Leader of the Council on Trafford council and between 2008 and 2021 was a Councillor for the Bowdon ward. Anstee is also executive director at Municipal Partners,Chairman of Trafford Housing Trust and a Non-Executive Director of London &Quadrant. He was appointed a CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours list for services to local government.
Christopher Mark Clarkson is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood &Middleton since the 2019 general election. Prior to entering Parliament,Clarkson was a Salford City Councilor for Worsley.
Andrew Howard Western is a British politician of the Labour Party who was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston at the 2022 by-election. He had been the leader of Trafford Council since 2018,a post he vacated upon his election to parliament.
The inaugural West Yorkshire mayoral election was held on Thursday 6 May 2021 to elect the Mayor of West Yorkshire. It took place simultaneously on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom,including council elections in each of the five metropolitan boroughs of West Yorkshire.
The 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election is due to be held on 2 May 2024 to elect the mayor of Greater Manchester. The election will take place the same day as council elections within the city region,including the election for the mayor of Salford,as well as local elections across England and Wales.
Bev Craig is a Labour councillor in Burnage,Manchester,England,and Leader of Manchester City Council. As leader she is also a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and is the combined authority's portfolio lead for Economy,Business and Inclusive Growth.
The 2022 Manchester City Council election took place on 5 May 2022. One third of councillors on Manchester City Council were elected. This election was a part of the other local elections across the United Kingdom.
