Bolton Council

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Third of council elected three years out of four
	Coat of arms
Type
Type	Metropolitan district council of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Houses	Unicameral
Term limits	None
History
Founded	1 April 1974
Structure
Seats	60 councillors
Joint committees	Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel
Labour	37 / 60
Conservative	15 / 60
UKIP	5 / 60
Liberal Democrats	3 / 60
Elections
Last election	2014 (one third of councillors); 2015 (one third of councillors); 2016 (one third of councillors)
Next election	2018 (one third of councillors); 2019 (one third of councillors); 2020 (one third of councillors)
Website
	www.bolton.gov.uk

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]

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Party		Period
Conservative	1973–1980
Labour	1980–2003
	No overall control	2003–2011
Labour	2011–present

Leaders

Leader		Party	Term
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	John Hanscomb	Conservative	1973–1980
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Robert Howarth	Labour	1980–2004
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" \|	Barbara Ronson	Liberal Democrat	2004–2006
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Clifford Morris	Labour	2006–present

Wards and Councillors

There are 20 wards, each represented by three councillors.^[2]

Ward	Councillor		Party	Date first elected
Astley Bridge
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Hilary Fairclough	Conservative	04-May-2000
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Walsh	Conservative	07-May-1998
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Paul Wild	Conservative	05-May-2011
Bradshaw
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Mudasir Dean	Conservative	03-May-2012
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stuart Haslam	Conservative	03-May-2012
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jacqueline Radcliffe	Conservative	05-May-2016
Breightmet
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Byrne	Labour	07-May-1992
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Lynda Byrne^[3]	Labour	10-Jun-2004
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Debbie Newall	Labour	05-May-2016
Bromley Cross
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Norman Critchley	Conservative	05-May-1988
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	David Greenhalgh^[4]	Conservative	04-May-2006
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Alan Wilkinson	Conservative	09-Apr-1981
Crompton
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Hanif Darvesh	Labour	13-Jul-2006
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Guy Harkin	Labour	01-Oct-2009
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Bilkis Ismail	Labour	11-Feb-2016
Farnworth
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jean Gillies	Labour	05-May-2011
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Asif Ibrahim	Labour	03-May-2012
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Noel Spencer	Labour	07-May-1992
Great Lever
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Mohammed Ayub	Labour	04-May-2006
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Mohammed Iqbal	Labour	01-May-2008
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Madeline Murray	Labour	03-May-2007
Halliwell
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Cliff Morris^[5]	Labour	05-May-1983
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Linda Thomas^[6]	Labour	05-Oct-1995
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Akhtar Zaman	Labour	02-May-2002
Harper Green
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Mike Francis	Labour	06-May-2010
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Susan Haworth	Labour	16-Oct-2014
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Champak Mistry	Labour	01-May-2008
Heaton and Lostock
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Robert Allen	Conservative	10-Jun-2004
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Andrew Morgan	Conservative	07-May-2015
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Colin Shaw	Conservative	05-May-1994
Horwich and Blackrod
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Alan Bury	Labour	22-May-2014
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Ann Cunliffe	Labour	03-May-2012
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stephen Pickup	Labour	06-May-2010
Horwich North East
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Joyce Kellett	Labour	05-May-2011
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Kevin McKeon	Labour	06-May-2010
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Richard Silvester	Labour Co-operative	05-May-2011
Hulton
	style="background-color: Template:UKIP/meta/color"\|	Diane Parkinson	UKIP	22-May-2014
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Shafaqat Shaikh	Labour	07-May-2015
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Darren Whitehead	Labour	05-May-2016
Kearsley
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Derek Burrows	Labour	04-May-2006
	style="background-color: Template:UKIP/meta/color"\|	Mark Cunningham	UKIP	05-May-2016
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Liam Irving	Labour	05-May-2011
Little Lever and Darcy Lever
	style="background-color: Template:UKIP/meta/color"\|	Rees Gibbon	UKIP	05-May-2016
	style="background-color: Template:UKIP/meta/color"\|	Sean Hornby^[7]	UKIP	07-May-2015
	style="background-color: Template:UKIP/meta/color"\|	Paul Richardson	UKIP	22-May-2014
Rumworth
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Ebrahim Adia	Labour	02-May-2002
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Ismail Ibrahim	Labour	10-Jun-2004
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Shamim Abdullah	Labour	06-Oct-2016
Smithills
	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color"\|	Roger Hayes^[8]	Liberal Democrat	07-May-1998
	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color"\|	Andrew Martin	Liberal Democrat	22-May-2014
	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color"\|	Carole Swarbrick^[9]	Liberal Democrat	02-May-1996
Tonge with the Haulgh
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Martin Donaghy	Labour	03-May-2012
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Nicholas Peel	Labour	04-May-2000
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Elaine Sherrington	Labour	06-May-1999
Westhoughton North and Chew Moor
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Martyn Cox	Conservative	06-May-2010
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Zoe Kirk-Robinson	Conservative	07-May-2015
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Christine Wild	Conservative	05-May-2016
Westhoughton South
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	David Chadwick	Labour	03-May-2007
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Kevan Jones	Labour	06-May-2010
	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Anna-Marie Watters	Labour	03-May-2012

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.
^ Mayor of Bolton
^ Leader of the Conservative Group
^ Leader of the Council
^ Deputy Leader of the Council
^ Leader of the UKIP Group
^ Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group
^ Deputy Mayor of Bolton

[change-1] BBC News (19 April 2008). "Elections 2008: Bolton". BBC News Online. Retrieved 26 September 2009.

[2] Bolton Council. "Elected Members". Bolton Council. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

[3] Mayor of Bolton

[4] Leader of the Conservative Group

[5] Leader of the Council

[6] Deputy Leader of the Council

[7] Leader of the UKIP Group

[8] Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group

[9] Deputy Mayor of Bolton

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v t e Local authorities in Greater Manchester
Joint arrangements	Combined authority Fire and rescue service Local government association Police and crime commissioner Police, fire and crime panel Waste disposal authority
District councils	Bolton Bury Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Stockport Tameside Trafford Wigan
Parish councils	Blackrod Horwich

v t e Metropolitan districts of England
Districts	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Councils	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Local elections	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

History

Political control

Leaders

Wards and Councillors

See also

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