2006 Manchester City Council election

Elections to Manchester City Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 2010. The council stayed under Labour Party control, strengthened by four gains from the Liberal Democrats.[1][2]

Map of the results of the 2006 Manchester council election. Labour in red and the Liberal Democrats in yellow.

Election result

Changes in vote share are compared to the 2004 election.

Manchester Council Election Result 2006[2]
Party		This election			Full council			This election
		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Labour	23	4	71.9	38	61	63.5	41,039	44.8	4.9%
	Liberal Democrats	9	4	28.1	25	34	35.4	28,929	31.6	2.3%
	Conservative	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	9,649	10.5	2.2%
	Green	0		0.0	1	1	1.1	8,493	9.3	1.0%
	UKIP	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	1,128	1.2	1.0%
	Independent	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	833	0.9	0.4%
	BNP	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	641	0.7	0.3%
	Respect	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	615	0.7	0.3%
	Socialist Alternative	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	214	0.2	n/a
	Independent Liberal	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	11	0.0	n/a

Ward results

Below is a list of the 32 individual wards with the candidates standing in those wards and the number of votes the candidates acquired. Incumbent councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2004 and are marked with an asterisk.

Ancoats and Clayton

Ancoats and Clayton[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Battle*	1,463	48.3	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel James Valentine	1,235	40.7	-0.2
	Conservative	Christine Joan Birchenough	136	4.5	-0.6
	Green	Richard Francis Keatley	126	4.2	-0.5
	Independent	John Hulse	71	2.3	-1.2
Majority			228	7.6	+2.0
Turnout			3,031	32.9	-5.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.2

Ardwick

Ardwick[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mavis Smitheman*	1,248	61.4	+15.7
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Alam Panwar	405	19.9	-7.5
	Green	Christopher David Charlton	216	10.6	-2.4
	Conservative	Tadeusz Sochacki	163	8.0	+0.9
Majority			843	41.5	+23.2
Turnout			2,032	21.7	-2.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+11.6

Baguley

Baguley[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Eddie McCulley*	1,205	49.0	-4.8
	Conservative	Joyce Kaye	498	20.2	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Leslie James Ardron	323	13.1	-0.7
	Green	Lynne Richmond	220	8.9	-2.5
	Socialist Alternative	Lynn Worthington	214	8.7	+8.7
Majority			707	28.7	-4.1
Turnout			2,460	23.9	-5.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.0

Bradford

Bradford[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Longsden*	1,525	69.8	+7.7
	Liberal Democrats	Rob Brettle	316	14.5	+0.3
	Conservative	Karen Abbad	188	8.6	-6.5
	Green	Christopher Waldon	156	7.1	-1.6
Majority			1,209	55.3	+14.2
Turnout			2,185	25.3	-4.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.7

Brooklands

Brooklands[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Sue Murphy*	1,378	42.1	-2.7
	Conservative	Ralph John Ellerton	953	29.2	-5.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Paul Ankers	787	24.1	+10.7
	Green	Tamisin MacCarthy-Morrogh	149	4.6	-2.8
Majority			425	13.0	+2.4
Turnout			3,267	33.4	-1.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.2

Burnage

Burnage[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rodney Alan Isherwood*	1,460	47.5	-10.4
	Labour	Frank Oliver Duffy	1,169	38.0	+12.7
	Conservative	Dorothy Helen Keller	252	8.2	-0.5
	Green	Elindsay James	149	4.8	-3.2
Majority			291	9.5	-23.1
Turnout			3,073	29.8	-10.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-11.5

Charlestown

Charlestown[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eric Hobin*	1,435	54.3	-4.8
	Conservative	Vivienne Inez Clarke	388	14.7	-1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Rodgers	348	13.2	-11.5
	UKIP	Catherine Andrea Ritchie	312	11.8	+11.8
	Green	Helen Sarah Dolan	159	6.0	+6.0
Majority			1,047	39.6	+5.2
Turnout			2,642	29.2	-5.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.6

Cheetham

Cheetham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Naeem Ul Hassam*	1,707	45.6	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Qassim Afzal	1,608	43.0	+5.9
	Green	Jacqueline Smith	235	6.3	+6.3
	Conservative	Kim Elvin Glasspole	191	5.1	+2.4
Majority			99	2.6	-5.1
Turnout			3,741	36.2	-11.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.5

Chorlton

Chorlton[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Val Stevens*	1,828	42.0	+9.0
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Leslie Glover	1,713	39.4	+6.7
	Green	Brian Arthur Candeland	609	14.0	-1.4
	Conservative	Amar Rouf Ahmed	198	4.6	-4.0
Majority			115	2.6	+2.3
Turnout			4,348	43.0	-3.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.1

Chorlton Park

Chorlton Park[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Norman Lewis*	1,724	54.7	+0.7
	Labour	Yogesh Virmani	797	25.3	+6.4
	Green	Kathryn Mary Brownbridge	399	12.7	-1.1
	Conservative	Rodney Keller	229	7.3	+0.0
Majority			927	29.4	+5.6
Turnout			3,149	32.1	-10.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-2.8

City Centre

City Centre[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Elaine Boyes*	531	38.0	+0.5
	Labour Co-op	Chris Paul	374	26.8	-0.8
	Conservative	James Jacob Gilchrist Berry	311	22.3	+7.1
	Green	Birgit Vollm	181	13.0	-2.0
Majority			157	11.2	+1.3
Turnout			1,397	16.4	-2.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+0.6

Crumpsall

Crumpsall[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon-Leigh Pritchard*	1,667	49.6	+4.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sham Raja	738	21.9	+2.2
	Conservative	Adrian Paul Glasspole	476	14.2	-4.3
	UKIP	Ernest Robert Willescroft	259	7.7	+7.7
	Green	Justine Michelle Hall	223	6.6	-10.1
Majority			929	27.6	+2.4
Turnout			3,363	33.8	-8.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.2

Didsbury East

Didsbury East[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Thomas Parkinson*	1,809	45.3	-2.4
	Labour	Geoffrey Bridson	1,369	34.3	+2.9
	Green	Richard Edgar Gee	459	11.5	+3.4
	Conservative	Peter Malcolm Schofield	359	9.0	-3.7
Majority			440	11.0	-5.3
Turnout			3,996	39.1	-9.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-2.6

Didsbury West

Didsbury West[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Mark Clayton	1,189	42.9	+0.1
	Labour	David Clive Ellison	692	25.0	+4.6
	Conservative	Peter Girvan Hilton	485	17.5	+2.3
	Green	George Stanislaw Czernuszka	329	11.9	-4.2
	UKIP	Robert Gutfreund-Walmsley	76	2.7	-2.9
Majority			497	17.9	-4.5
Turnout			2,771	28.0	-8.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-2.2

Fallowfield

Fallowfield[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Amesbury	1,357	46.4	+4.1
	Liberal Democrats	John-Paul Wilkins*	1,086	37.2	+0.6
	Conservative	Cedric Beniston	171	5.9	-3.8
	Green	Susan Somerville	168	5.7	-5.7
	BNP	Joseph Gerard Marjella Finnon	140	4.8	+4.8
Majority			271	9.3	+3.5
Turnout			2,922	28.1	-2.4
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+1.7

Gorton North

Gorton North[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nilofar Siddiqi	1,244	39.7	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Bernadette Newing*	1,132	36.1	-11.0
	Independent	Allan James Grafton	465	14.8	+14.8
	Conservative	Patricia Ann Ainscough	144	4.6	-3.5
	Green	Rachel Michelle Wilson	78	2.5	-2.8
	Independent	David Colin Jones	72	2.3	+2.3
Majority			112	3.6	-3.9
Turnout			3,135	31.4	-1.9
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+5.5

Gorton South

Gorton South[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Richard Bridges*	1,375	47.8	-7.6
	Labour	Julie Reid	1,031	35.8	+8.3
	Green	David William Mottram	246	8.5	-1.0
	Conservative	Raymond Kenyon	226	7.9	+0.4
Majority			344	12.0	-15.9
Turnout			2,878	26.9	-4.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-7.9

Harpurhey

Harpurhey[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Fairweather*	1,420	55.3	-0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth David Aubrey	320	12.5	-11.5
	UKIP	Roger Porter Bullock	312	12.1	+12.1
	Conservative	Ian Beswick	302	11.8	-2.4
	Green	Darren Jason Flynn	215	8.4	+8.4
Majority			1,100	42.8	+11.2
Turnout			2,569	22.1	-4.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.6

Higher Blackley

Higher Blackley[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anna Margaret Trotman*	1,477	57.0	-3.4
	Conservative	Terence Shannon	506	19.5	-0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Argyropoulos	383	14.8	-4.9
	Green	Michael Robert Shaw	226	8.7	+8.7
Majority			971	37.5	-3.1
Turnout			2,592	26.5	-5.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.5

Hulme

Hulme[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nigel Joseph Murphy	816	37.9	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Oliver West	576	26.7	+7.6
	Green	Steven Jonathan Durrant	539	25.0	-12.4
	Conservative	Paul Anthony Kierman	96	4.6	-2.7
	Independent	Christine Anne Boscott-Shermerdine	53	2.5	+2.5
	Independent	Captain Cae Os	43	2.0	+2.0
	UKIP	Peter David Reeve	20	0.9	+0.9
	Independent Liberal	Charles Anthony Lyn-Lloyd	11	0.5	+0.5
Majority			240	11.1	+9.8
Turnout			2,154	24.1	-1.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.9

Levenshulme

Levenshulme[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander Cowan*	1,402	50.1	-3.1
	Labour	Dermot Sean Zafar	779	27.9	+3.8
	Green	Peter Norman Thompson	399	14.3	-2.1
	Conservative	William Moore	217	7.8	+1.5
Majority			623	22.3	-6.9
Turnout			2,797	28.4	-4.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-3.4

Longsight

Longsight[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maryam Fazeela Khan	1,687	54.6	+24.4
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Sajjad*	774	25.1	-19.2
	Green	Hassan Ukairo	444	14.4	-1.7
	Conservative	Zahir Ali	182	5.9	-3.5
Majority			913	30.0	+15.4
Turnout			3,087	32.3	-6.0
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+21.8

Miles Platting and Newton Heath

Miles Platting and Newton Heath[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Flanagan*	1,286	43.5	+6.3
	Liberal Democrats	Richard John Wilson	791	26.8	+9.5
	BNP	Derek George Adams	501	16.9	+3.4
	UKIP	Lisa Ann Duffy	149	5.0	+5.0
	Conservative	Brian George Birchenough	134	4.5	-3.0
	Green	Anthony James Quinn	96	3.2	-1.9
Majority			495	16.7	-1.1
Turnout			2,957	29.1	-2.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.6

Moss Side

Moss Side[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Blake Walters*	1,734	63.7	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Hamza Butt	509	18.7	+1.1
	Green	Robin Goater	235	8.6	+0.2
	Independent	Reverend Juggla	129	4.7	-2.8
	Conservative	Raymond Talbot Wattenbach	116	4.3	-2.1
Majority			1,225	45.0	+2.4
Turnout			2,723	27.8	-0.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.2

Moston

Moston[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bill Risby*	1,774	53.1	-5.2
	Conservative	Anthony Gerard Pinder	755	22.6	-2.7
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy John Hartley	506	15.2	+3.1
	Green	Rose Ann Cameron	303	9.0	+9.0
Majority			1,019	30.5	-2.6
Turnout			3,338	31.2	-6.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.2

Northenden

Northenden[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard James Cowell*	1,431	46.9	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Clive Eakins	1,092	35.8	+15.7
	Conservative	Nathan James Cruddas	391	12.8	-5.2
	Green	Lance David Crookes	136	4.5	-12.6
Majority			339	11.1	-13.5
Turnout			3,050	29.3	-3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.7

Old Moat

Old Moat[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Harrison*	1,567	54.4	+5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Tina Maache	773	26.9	-0.4
	Green	Robin-Ella Davies	317	11.0	-1.4
	Conservative	Daniel Rossall Valentine	221	7.7	-3.2
Majority			794	27.6	+5.4
Turnout			2,878	29.2	-3.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.7

Rusholme

Rusholme[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lynne Williams*	1,157	39.9	-16.0
	Labour	John Byrne	804	27.7	-0.8
	Respect	Nahella Ashraf	615	21.2	+21.2
	Green	Penelope Irene Collins	188	6.5	-2.9
	Conservative	Barbara Mary Goodall	135	4.7	-1.4
Majority			353	12.2	-15.1
Turnout			2,899	31.5	-6.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-7.6

Sharston

Sharston[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Hugh Barrett*	1,248	55.0	+4.7
	Conservative	Agnes Anne Carroll	402	17.7	-1.1
	Liberal Democrats	William David Fisher	355	15.6	-0.9
	Green	Karen Jane Duffy	264	11.5	-2.9
Majority			846	37.3	+5.8
Turnout			2,269	21.4	-5.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.9

Whalley Range

Whalley Range[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Rose Watson	1,637	46.1	+17.4
	Liberal Democrats	Joy Ruth Winder*	1,158	32.6	-6.6
	Green	Mary Rosalind Candeland	466	13.1	+0.6
	Conservative	Matthew Graham Cox	289	8.1	-11.5
Majority			479	13.5	+2.9
Turnout			3,550	34.5	-9.3
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+12.0

Withington

Withington[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Simon David Wheale	1,064	47.8	-10.6
	Labour	Delores Elizabeth Long	613	27.6	+9.0
	Green	Sarah Stuart	340	15.3	+0.9
	Conservative	Andrew Christopher Perfect	207	9.3	+0.7
Majority			451	20.3	-19.5
Turnout			2,224	22.3	-8.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-9.8

Woodhouse Park

Woodhouse Park[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Newman*	1,277	61.5	+1.1
	Conservative	Ruby Marie Raynor	328	15.8	-0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Joseph Francis Podbylski	290	14.0	-0.2
	Green	Peter Andrew Somerville	180	8.7	-0.1
Majority			949	45.7	+1.8
Turnout			2,075	21.8	-5.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.9

By-elections between 2006 and 2007

Gorton South By-Election 19 October 2006[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Glover	1,588	49.3	+1.5
	Labour	Julie Reid	1,208	37.5	+1.7
	BNP	Derek Adams	185	5.7	+5.7
	Green	David Mottram	151	4.7	-3.8
	Conservative	Daniel Valentine	90	2.8	-5.1
Majority			380	11.8	-0.2
Turnout			3,222	29.9	+3.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-0.1

References

1. "Local Election Results 2006". manchester.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
2. "Local Elections Archive: 2006 - Manchester". andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
3. "By-election results: 2006–2011". manchester.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2012.