2022 Salford City Council election
The 2022 Salford City Council election is due to take place on 5 May 2022. One third—20 out of 60—of councillors on Salford City Council will be elected. The election will take place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom. In the previous council election in 2021, the Labour Party maintained its longstanding control of the council, holding 52 of the council's 60 seats. The Conservatives won seven seats and the Liberal Democrats won one. Background. History. The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts  covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Salford was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county. The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority was created in 2011 and began electing the mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former Greater Manchester metropolitan county. Since its formation, Salford City Council has continuously been under Labour control. In the most recent  council election in 2021, all seats in Salford were up to election due to new boundaries. Labour won fifty-two seats, the Conservatives won seven and the Liberal Democrats won one. As the Local Government Boundary Commission for England produced new boundaries for Manchester ahead of the 2021 election, meaning that the 2021 elections were all-out, with all councillors being elected before returning to electing by thirds, candidates up for re-election in 2022 are those who came third in each ward in 2018. Electoral process. The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for  election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year. The election will take place by first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally being represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term. All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Salford aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections  in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election. Candidates. Statements of persons nominated were published on 6 April. Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).