The ones to watch in Trafford in next week’s local election
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTrafford’s Labour-led council is set for a shake up next week. With just over a week to go until Trafford heads to the polls, with a third of the council’s seats up for grabs again, here’s a run-down of the big names, familiar faces and hotly-contested seats to look out for on Thursday May 5.
Currently, the council has 40 Labour councillors, 16 Conservative councillors, three Liberal Democrat councillors and three Green councillors.
Back at the last local elections in May 2021, a third of Trafford council positions were being contested. On a bad day for Labour nationally, Trafford bucked the trend as ‘the only good news story for the party’ in the country, gaining four seats.
The party retained overall control of the council, holding all of its seats and winning a few more to boot, stealing them from the Conservatives.
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