{"id":1121928,"date":"2026-07-31T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1121928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:22:21","slug":"greater-manchester-mayoral-election-live-with-results-and-updates-from-the-count-roch-valley-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1121928\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester mayoral election LIVE with results and updates from the count &#8211; Roch Valley Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6c724087af79a0aa9.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Credit: David Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The result of the Greater Manchester mayoral by election is expected later today as officials count hundreds of thousands of ballot papers.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The result of the Greater Manchester mayoral by election is expected later today as officials count hundreds of thousands of ballot papers.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial team from the Oldham Evening Chronicle are at the Co-op Live to bring you all of the updates throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester will elect a new mayor today after voters went to the polls on Thursday to choose Andy Burnham&#8217;s successor.<\/p>\n<p>This election is being held under the supplementary vote system, allowing voters to select both a first and second preference candidate. If no one achieves an outright majority in the opening count, all but the leading two candidates are eliminated before second preference votes are redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>Seven candidates are contesting the election.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sian Niamh Astley for Reform UK<\/li>\n<li>Geraldine Coggins for the Green Party<\/li>\n<li>Bev Craig for Labour and the Co operative Party<\/li>\n<li>Phil Eckersley for the Conservative Party<\/li>\n<li>Marcus Jonathan Farmer, Independent<\/li>\n<li>Richard Kilpatrick for the Liberal Democrats<\/li>\n<li>Marlon West for Restore Britain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The successful candidate will take responsibility for key decisions affecting Greater Manchester, including policing, transport, housing, economic development and the region&#8217;s overall budget.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6c72409e12819a15b.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: David Murphy The result of the Greater Manchester mayoral by election is expected later today as officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1121929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1285,115685,222753,222754,222757,5554,27798,222760,393,4884,18799,222759,27799,3462,3611,16785,222756,222761,2465,12,115684,222758,222755,1170,115686,222752,222751,16,15],"class_list":["post-1121928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-bury","tag-bury-dab","tag-bury-news","tag-bury-radio","tag-bury-radio-station","tag-community","tag-community-radio","tag-community-radio-bury","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-greater-manchester","tag-greater-manchester-radio","tag-hospital-radio","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-local-radio-bury","tag-local-radio-greater-manchester","tag-manchester","tag-news","tag-radio-bury","tag-radio-coverage-bury","tag-radio-in-bury","tag-rochdale","tag-rochdale-dab","tag-rochdale-news","tag-rochdale-times","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}