Counts for each Greater Manchester council take place tonight and on Friday day. Here is when we can expect results for each area:<\/p>\n
Manchester<\/p>\n
32 out of 96 seats on Manchester City Council are being contested.<\/p>\n
Election results for Manchester are expected from 12:30pm on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Bolton<\/p>\n
20 out of 60 seats on Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council are up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Election results for Bolton are due from 3am on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Salford<\/p>\n
20 out of 60 seats on Salford City Council are being contested in the 2026 local elections.<\/p>\n
Results for Salford are expected from 3am on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Trafford<\/p>\n
21 out of 63 seats on Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council are up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Results for Trafford are expected from 4pm on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Bury<\/p>\n
17 out of 51 seats on Bury Metropolitan Borough Council are being contested.<\/p>\n
Results for Bury are expected from 4:30pm on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Wigan<\/p>\n
25 out of 75 seats on Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council are being contested in the 2026 local elections.<\/p>\n
Results for Wigan are due from 2:30am on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Oldham<\/p>\n
20 out of 60 seats on Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council are up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Results for Oldham are expected from 5am on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Rochdale<\/p>\n
20 out of 60 seats to Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council are up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Results for Rochdale are expected from 2pm on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Stockport<\/p>\n
21 out of 63 seats on Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council are up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Results for Stockport are expected from 5am on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n
Tameside<\/p>\n
19 out of 57 seats on Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council are being contested in today’s local elections.<\/p>\n
Results for Tameside are expected from 3am on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counts for each Greater Manchester council take place tonight and on Friday day. Here is when we can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3211,1328,3724,23,31,4347,1074,465,14,408,994,63,3624,10140,1717,5,6,5194],"class_list":{"0":"post-31125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-conservative-party","11":"tag-green-party","12":"tag-labour-party","13":"tag-local-elections","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-oldham","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-reform-uk","18":"tag-rochdale","19":"tag-salford","20":"tag-stockport","21":"tag-tameside","22":"tag-trafford","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116535463970055143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}