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    Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 7 May 1992, with one third of the seats set for re-election. Before the election the Labour Party...
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    Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Wigan...
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    the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,714. Wigan is part...
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    Elections to Wigan Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003 with one-third of the council was up for election. Prior to the election, there had been two...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 increasing...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 6 May 1999. One-third of the council was up for election. Prior to the election, the Liberal Democrats had gained...
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    the total number of seats on the Council after the elections: "Wigan Council results from 1973 to 2008" (PDF). wigan.gov.uk. Archived from the original...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 1 May 2008. One-third of the council was up for election. This result had the following consequences for the total...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 2 May 2002, with one-third of the council to be re-elected. There had been a number of by-elections in the gap...
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    administrative county of Lancashire, and the County Borough of Bolton. The metropolitan districts of Bury, Salford and Wigan lie to the east, south and west respectively;...
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  • Thumbnail for 1991 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
    Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 2 May 1991, with one third scheduled for re-election. Like the last election, this seen a wider variety...
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    Elections to Wigan Borough Council were held on 4 May 2000. One-third of the council was up for election, as well as an extra vacancy in Norley - both...
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    1918–1983: The County Borough of Wigan In 1974 the Country Borough of Wigan was abolished and superseded by the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, covering a far...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 6 May 2010. One-third of the council was up for election. This result had the following consequences for the total...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election. Following the previous election there had been three...
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    Elections to Wigan council were held on Thursday, 2 May 1996, with an extra vacancy in Abram to be filled. Going into the election there were noticeably...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 4 May 2006. One-third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council...
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  • Thumbnail for 2011 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
    Elections to Wigan Council were held in May 2011. One-third of the council was up for election. These elections were held as part of the 2011 United Kingdom...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 3 May 2007 with one third of the seats up for election. This result had the following consequences for the total...
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    Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1994, with one third of the seats up for election. Prior to the election, Labour had defended...
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  • Thumbnail for 2024 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council election
    The 2024 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Walsall Council in the West Midlands. This was on the...
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  • Thumbnail for 1992 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
    Elections to Trafford Council were held on 7 May 1992. One-third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year...
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  • club in the town following the demise of Wigan A.F.C., Wigan County, Wigan United, Wigan Town and Wigan Borough. The town's die-hard football enthusiasts...
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    South Ribble, Chorley, and Wigan to the east; St Helens and Knowsley to the south; and Sefton to the south and west. The borough has a population of 117...
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    Leigh (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    first contested in the 2024 general election. Leigh was a marginal seat in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and on the border with Warrington...
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    2022 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election took place 5 May 2022 to elect members of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. This was on the...
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  • The ceremonial and metropolitan county of Greater Manchester is divided into 27 parliamentary constituencies—16 borough constituencies and 11 county constituencies...
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    Bolton West (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton)
    and Westhoughton in the western half of Bolton borough though in 2010 Atherton from the Wigan borough was added, a more Labour-leaning former coal mining...
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  • South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in Tyne and...
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    on 18 July 1992. The Liberal Democrats gained 56 seats and had 3,728 councillors after the elections. All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third...
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