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Levenshulme forms part of the wider Gorton and Denton Parliamentary constituency and has been represented in Westminster by Andrew Gwynne since July 2024. [20] Councillors. The Levenshulme ward is represented in Manchester City Council by three Labour councillors: Basat Sheikh, [21] Zahid Hussain and Dzidra Noor. [22]
The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets. District councils ... Levenshulme (3) Longsight (3)
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. [6] [7] Councillors are elected via first-past-the-post voting, with each ward represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term. [citation needed]
The 2024 Manchester City Council elections took place on 2 May 2024, alongside the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election and other local elections across England.There were 33 of the 96 seats on Manchester City Council up for election, being the usual third of the seats plus a by-election in Didsbury East ward.
The following councillors, last elected in 2018, did not stand for re-election: Labour: Kelly Simcock (Didsbury East), Nigel Murphy (Hulme, deselected), [2] Bernard Stone (Levenshulme), Carl Ollerhead (Moston, suspended by party in June 2020), [3] Maddy Monaghan (Sharston), Mary Watson (Whalley Range).
Caused by the death on 4 February 1938 of Alderman R. A. D. Carter (Conservative, elected as an alderman by the council on 9 November 1909). [3] [4] In his place, Councillor Thomas Cassidy (Labour, St. Michael's, elected 14 December 1920) [5] was elected as an alderman by the council on 16 February 1938. [6]
Whitmore was first elected to Manchester City Council in May 1979 and remained a member until May 2012, [1] representing the Levenshulme ward. [3]In 1983 and again at the 1987 general election, Whitmore unsuccessfully fought the Manchester Gorton constituency for the Liberal Party, a seat held by Labour’s Gerald Kaufman. [4]
The constituency was created as Manchester, Rusholme Division by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and was defined as consisting of three wards of the county borough of Manchester, namely Levenshulme, Longsight and Rusholme. [3] The division consisted of areas that had been included with Manchester's municipal boundaries in 1890 and ...