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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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<\/strong><\/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":944547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[279,748,1285,527,393,4884,14144,528,10751,2465,1286,285,386,1170,1290,1288,1026,1289,16,15,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-944546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-bury","11":"tag-conservative-party","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-green-party","15":"tag-labour-party","16":"tag-local-elections","17":"tag-manchester","18":"tag-oldham","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-reform-uk","21":"tag-rochdale","22":"tag-salford","23":"tag-stockport","24":"tag-tameside","25":"tag-trafford","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-wigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116535232560866674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944546","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=944546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}