Bolton Council
| Bolton Council | |
|---|---|
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | 1 April 1974 |
| Leadership | |
Mayor | |
Leader of the Council | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 60 councillors |
 | |
Political groups |
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Joint committees |
Greater Manchester Combined Authority Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel |
Length of term | 4 years |
| Elections | |
Last election |
2014 (one third of councillors) 2015 (one third of councillors) 2016 (one third of councillors) 2018 (one third of councillors) |
Next election |
2019 (one third of councillors) 2020 (one third of councillors) |
| Website | |
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www | |
Bolton Council, also called Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is a Metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the Metropolitan Counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Bolton.
History
The current local authority was first elected in 1973, a year before formally coming into its powers and prior to the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton on 1 April 1974. The council gained borough status, entitling it to be known as Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.
Political control
Since 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:[1]
| Majority party | Period | Leader | Party | Period | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 1973–1980 | John Hanscomb | Conservative | 1973–1980 | ||
| Labour | 1980–2003 | Robert Howarth | Labour | 1980–2004 | ||
| No overall control | 2003–2011 | |||||
| Barbara Ronson | Liberal Democrat | 2004–2006 | ||||
| Clifford Morris | Labour | 2006–2018 | ||||
| Labour | 2011–present | |||||
| Linda Thomas | Labour | 2018-present | ||||
Wards and Councillors
There are 20 Wards, each represented by three councillors.[2]
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Date first elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astley Bridge | ||||
| Hilary Fairclough | Conservative | 04-May-2000 | ||
| John Walsh | Conservative | 07-May-1998 | ||
| Paul Wild | Conservative | 05-May-2011 | ||
| Bradshaw | ||||
| Mudasir Dean | Conservative | 03-May-2012 | ||
| Stuart Haslam | Conservative | 03-May-2012 | ||
| Jacqueline Radcliffe | Conservative | 05-May-2016 | ||
| Breightmet | ||||
| John Byrne | Labour | 07-May-1992 | ||
| Adele Warren | Conservative | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Debbie Newall | Labour | 05-May-2016 | ||
| Bromley Cross | ||||
| Norman Critchley | Conservative | 05-May-1988 | ||
| David Greenhalgh[3] | Conservative | 04-May-2006 | ||
| Nadim Muslim | Conservative | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Crompton | ||||
| Hanif Darvesh | Labour | 13-Jul-2006 | ||
| Guy Harkin | Labour | 01-Oct-2009 | ||
| Bilkis Ismail | Labour | 11-Feb-2016 | ||
| Farnworth | ||||
| Jean Gillies | Labour | 05-May-2011 | ||
| Paul Sanders | Farnworth and Kearsley First | 09-March-2018 | ||
| Maureen Flitcroft | Farnworth and Kearsley First | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Great Lever | ||||
| Mohammed Ayub | Labour | 04-May-2006 | ||
| Mohammed Iqbal | Labour | 01-May-2008 | ||
| Madeline Murray | Labour | 03-May-2007 | ||
| Halliwell | ||||
| Cliff Morris | Labour | 05-May-1983 | ||
| Linda Thomas[4] | Labour | 05-Oct-1995 | ||
| Akhtar Zaman | Labour | 02-May-2002 | ||
| Harper Green | ||||
| Hamid Kurram | Labour | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Susan Haworth | Labour | 16-Oct-2014 | ||
| Champak Mistry | Labour | 01-May-2008 | ||
| Heaton and Lostock | ||||
| Robert Allen | Conservative | 10-Jun-2004 | ||
| Andrew Morgan | Conservative | 07-May-2015 | ||
| Anne Galloway | Conservative | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Horwich and Blackrod | ||||
| Susan Baines | Conservative | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Ann Cunliffe | Labour | 03-May-2012 | ||
| Stephen Pickup | Labour | 06-May-2010 | ||
| Horwich North East | ||||
| Joyce Kellett | Labour | 05-May-2011 | ||
| Kevin McKeon | Labour | 06-May-2010 | ||
| Richard Silvester | Labour Co-operative | 05-May-2011 | ||
| Hulton | ||||
| Diane Parkinson | Conservative | 22-May-2014 | ||
| Shafaqat Shaikh | Labour | 07-May-2015 | ||
| Toby Hewitt | Conservative | 18-Jan-2018 | ||
| Kearsley | ||||
| Julie Pattison | Farnworth and Kearsley First | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Mark Cunningham | UKIP | 05-May-2016 | ||
| Liam Irving | Labour | 05-May-2011 | ||
| Little Lever and Darcy Lever | ||||
| Rees Gibbon | UKIP | 05-May-2016 | ||
| Sean Hornby[5] | UKIP | 07-May-2015 | ||
| David Evans | Labour | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Rumworth | ||||
| Shamim Abdullah | Labour | 06-Oct-2016 | ||
| Ebrahim Adia[6] | Labour | 02-May-2002 | ||
| Ismail Ibrahim | Labour | 10-Jun-2004 | ||
| Smithills | ||||
| Roger Hayes[7] | Liberal Democrat | 07-May-1998 | ||
| Doug Bagnall | Liberal Democrat | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Carole Swarbrick | Independent | 02-May-1996 | ||
| Tonge with the Haulgh | ||||
| Martin Donaghy | Labour | 03-May-2012 | ||
| Nicholas Peel | Labour | 04-May-2000 | ||
| Elaine Sherrington[8] | Labour | 06-May-1999 | ||
| Westhoughton North and Chew Moor | ||||
| Martyn Cox | Conservative | 06-May-2010 | ||
| Zoe Kirk-Robinson | Conservative | 07-May-2015 | ||
| Christine Wild | Conservative | 05-May-2016 | ||
| Westhoughton South | ||||
| David Chadwick | Labour | 03-May-2007 | ||
| David Wilkinson | Liberal Democrat | 03-May-2018 | ||
| Anna-Marie Watters | Labour | 03-May-2012 | ||
See also
Notes
- ↑ BBC News (19 April 2008). "Elections 2008: Bolton". BBC News Online. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ↑ Bolton Council. "Elected Members". Bolton Council. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Leader of the Conservative Group
- ↑ Leader of the Council
- ↑ Leader of the UKIP Group
- ↑ Deputy Leader of the Council
- ↑ Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group
- ↑ Mayor of Bolton
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