2016 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election information
2016 local election in England, UK
Stockport Council Election 2016
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5 May 2016
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21 Seats up for Election
First party
Second party
Party
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Seats before
23
24
Seats won
8
9
Seats after
23
23
Seat change
1
Third party
Fourth party
Party
Conservative
Heald Green Ratepayers
Seats before
13
3
Seats won
3
1
Seats after
14
3
Seat change
1
Map showing the results of the 2016 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council elections by ward. Red shows Labour seats, blue shows the Conservatives, yellow shows the Liberal Democrats and green the Heald Green Ratepayers.
Leader of the Council before election
Sue Derbyshire
Liberal Democrats
Leader of the Council
Alex Ganotis
Labour
The 2016 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council in England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. Stockport Council is elected in thirds which means that in each three member local ward, one councillor is elected every year, except every four years which is classed as fallow year. The last fallow year was 2013, when no local government elections took place in the borough. Those councillors elected with serve a four-year term expiring in 2020, the term was subsequently extended for a further year due to the deferral of the 2020 UK local elections.
Following the elections, the Lib Dem minority administration was replaced by a Labour minority administration. The Liberal Democrats had previously governed Stockport with a majority from 2002, and in a minority since 2011. This was able to occur as a result of a Liberal Democrat councillor defecting to Labour on election night, leaving Labour as the largest party with 23 councillors to the Liberal Democrats 21. [2]
^"Guide to May 2016 elections in Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
^"Stockport defection row councillor rejects resignation calls". BBC News. 10 May 2016.
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