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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/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":571833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2193,2436,61,59,57,58,48375,2053,89136,1768,50,2438,229,70,2437,2447,2443,2440,2445,56,54,55,2448],"class_list":["post-571832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-bolton","tag-bury","tag-conservative-party","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-green-party","tag-labour-party","tag-local-elections","tag-manchester","tag-news","tag-oldham","tag-politics","tag-reform-uk","tag-rochdale","tag-salford","tag-stockport","tag-tameside","tag-trafford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}