2021 Manchester City Council election
Elections to Manchester City Council were held on 6 May 2021, as part of the 2021 United Kingdom local elections. They were originally scheduled for 2020 but were suspended for a year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019 Labour had retained its majority on the council, with 93 seats, with the Liberal Democrats led by former MP John Leech increasing the number of opposition councillors to three, but this had fallen back to two in March 2021 when Councillor Greg Stanton defected to the Labour Party.
Background and campaign
The following councillors, last elected in 2018, did not stand for re-election:- Labour: Kelly Simcock, Nigel Murphy, Bernard Stone, Carl Ollerhead, Maddy Monaghan, Mary Watson.
Two by-elections were outstanding and were held alongside the scheduled elections of 2021: one for the seat of councillor Sue Murphy, who had died in April 2020, and the other for that of Ken Dobson, who had resigned from the council in October 2020.
Result
Summary change in vote share compared to the 2019 election. Change in number of seats compared to the composition of the council immediately before the election. Where multiple seats were contested in the same ward due to vacancies the results have been normalised.Council composition
After the 2019 election, the composition of the council was:Immediately prior to the election, the composition of the council was:
After the election, the composition of the council is:
Ward results
Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2018, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis.Ancoats and Beswick
Ardwick
Baguley
Brooklands
Burnage
Charlestown
Cheetham
Chorlton
Chorlton Park
Clayton and Openshaw
Crumpsall
Deansgate
Didsbury East
Didsbury West
Fallowfield
Gorton and Abbey Hey
Harpurhey
Higher Blackley
Hulme
Levenshulme
Longsight
Miles Platting and Newton Heath
Moss Side
Moston
Northenden
Old Moat
Piccadilly
Rusholme
Sharston
Whalley Range
Withington
Woodhouse Park
Changes since this election
Chorlton by-election
On 14 October 2021 councillor Matt Strong resigned from his seat in Chorlton, prompting a by-election that was held on 18 November 2021.Changes in the table below are relative to the 2019 election.