Local Council Elections - 2 May 2019

The Green Party fielded well over 400 candidates across the North West in 2019 Local Council Elections, more than a third of the seats available. The Party doubled the number of councillors in this election (from 17 to 34), easily the best set of local results for the Party ever. 

List of candidate numbers and successful councillors by borough are in the table below. These numbers do not include town and parish councils.

 

Borough Number of Green candidates Number of seats up for election Number of Green Councillors - 1 May 2019 Number of Green Councillors - 8 May 2019
Cheshire:        
Cheshire East 20  82     
Cheshire West 18  70     1
Halton 19     
Cumbria:        
Allerdale 12 49     
Barrow-in-Furness   36     
Carlisle 13  39    1
Copeland   33     
Eden 38    2
South Lakeland 16   16     1
Gtr Manchester:        
Bolton 11  20     
Bury 15  17     
Manchester 32  33     
Oldham 13  20     
Rochdale 20     
Salford 20  20     
Stockport 21  21     
Tameside 18  19   
Trafford 21  21  2
Wigan 25     
Lancashire:        
Blackburn   17     
Blackpool 42     
Burnley 15  15  1 2
Chorley 15     
Fylde 51     
Hyndburn   12     
Lancaster City 35  60  7 10
Lancashire County   1 1
Pendle  17     
Preston 48     
Ribble Valley 40     
Rossendale  12     
South Ribble   50     
West Lancs 18     
Wyre 50     
Merseyside        
Knowsley 15  1 3
Liverpool 30  30  4  4
St Helens 14  16    2
Sefton 18  22     
Wirral 22  22  1 3
         
Total 424  1150  17 34
   
   

 

 

Green Party Programme for Local Government

The Government’s ideological commitment to austerity has seen £50 billion cut from council services since 2010. These cuts - forced through from Westminster - have closed libraries, forced councils to sell public land and laid off the council staff that collect litter, repair roads and care for older people. The cross party Local Government Association estimates that councils face a further shortfall of £8 billion by 2025 with the most basic of services being eroded, decimating our communities.

A vote for the Green Party in May is a vote against such outdated, disastrously imposed establishment thinking. It is a vote for a new, fresh approach.

The Green Party is committed to campaigning to restore the £50 billion of public money taken from councils – having Greens elected to councils will send a strong message to Westminster that people have had enough of losing cherished local services.

At a local level, having Greens on your council means having champions for investment in local services, fighting to improve public spaces, increase access to social housing and to provide more walking, cycling and public transport opportunities.

It means having councillors looking beyond the tired stock answers and convention-sapped ambitions of the establishment parties. Green councillors embrace the new and relish the bold; harnessing resident’s skills and trusting local knowledge to solve local challenges, from declining high streets to under resourced public transport.

Unlike councillors from the establishment parties, Greens are not subject to a Party whip that orders them to vote according to the needs of the party machines and their colleagues in Westminster. This means they are free to put the residents they represent front and centre, and to fight without fear of favour for their interests - and the radical solutions that will make their lives better.