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    Elections to Trafford Council were held on Thursday, 3 May 1979, on the same day as the 1979 UK General Election. One third of the council was up for election...
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  • Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time...
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    a four-year term of office, expiring in 1979. These were the first Borough elections to be held in Trafford since it received its Royal Charter (and...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 3 May 1979, with one third of the council up for vote as well as an extra vacancy in Ward 22. The election seen...
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    Elections to Trafford Council were held on Thursday, 1 May 1980. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve...
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    Chester was a non-metropolitan local government district of Cheshire, England from 1974 to 2009. It had the status of a city and a borough, and the local...
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  • Thumbnail for 1978 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
    Elections to Trafford Council were held on Thursday, 4 May 1978. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve...
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    The Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in the United Kingdom. It consists of 75 Councillors...
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    The 2024 Cheltenham Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on...
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    Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Oldham Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester,...
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    Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a...
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    number being elected by the council every three years. As was common in borough elections throughout England, early elections were often uncontested, with...
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    Thompson". democratic.trafford.gov.uk. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021. "Councillor Chris Boyes". Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. Government of the...
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    Dagnall". democratic.trafford.gov.uk. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021. "Councillor Andrew Western". Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. Government of...
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    control: South Lakeland, West Lindsey In 6 metropolitan boroughs the whole council was up for election. In 6 boroughs there were new ward boundaries, following...
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    again in 1974 and 1976 and as Minister for the Privy Council Office from 1974 to 1976. Anthony Trafford (Conservative) went on after serving as MP to serve...
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    2003 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council in South Yorkshire...
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    Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, northwest England. It had a population of 496,770 in 2022. The city is located on the eastern...
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  • Ken Eastham (category UK MPs 1979–1983)
    borough in 1963. Following the Local Government Act 1972, he continued to represent the Beswick ward on the new Manchester City Council metropolitan borough...
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    Timperley (category Geography of Trafford)
    Timperley is a suburban area in the borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, it is...
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    Merseyside County Councils in 1986, power was transferred to the metropolitan boroughs, making them equivalent to unitary authorities. In April 2011, Greater...
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    all the metropolitan boroughs in combined authorities and periodic abolitions of the tier structure councils into unitary authority councils. The 1974...
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    covered a metropolitan county and adjacent non-metropolitan districts: the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority for Merseyside and the Borough of Halton...
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    'All-out' elections to the Wigan Council were held on 1 May 1980, following extensive boundary changes and entirely new wards, yet retaining the number...
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    Tony Lloyd (category Councillors in Trafford)
    candidate in the 1979 Trafford Council election, winning a seat on Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council representing the Clifford ward on 4 May 1979 (the day...
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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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    The 2022 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of South Tyneside Council. This was on the same...
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    no overall control: Mole Valley In 17 metropolitan boroughs the whole council was up for election. In 17 boroughs there were new ward boundaries, following...
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    Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. One third of councillors—23 out of 69—on Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council were...
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    Urmston (ward) (category Wards of Trafford)
    Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 7 October 2017. "Councillor Joanne Harding". Trafford Metropolitan...
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