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Polling stations are open until 22:00 today in the General Election. Please do not think your vote is wasted; an election is not decided until people like you decide it. Please do not think that staying at home will punish any politician, only voting against them can do that.

This general election is the most important ever. Like all general elections, the result will shape people’s lives through the policies pursued by the next government, a government that you get to choose today. What makes this election so special is that it hasn’t happened yet.

Apologies for the delay, but our elections spreadsheet has now been updated with the General Election results for all four constituencies covering Salford. Click the link below to have a look: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Sharmina August has resigned as a Labour councillor for Eccles.

How Salford MPs voted to annul the winter fuel allowance cut: Christian Wakeford (Bury South/LAB) : No Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South & Walkden/LAB) : No Rebecca Long-Bailey (Salford/LAB) : Abstained Michael Wheeler (Worsley & Eccles/LAB) : No Final result: Aye (227) No (348)

The by-election due to fill the casual vacancy in Eccles ward caused by the resignation of Sharmina August will be held on Thursday 31st October 2024.

Our elections spreadsheet has been updated with the candidates for the Eccles ward by-election to be held on 31st October 2024. Click the link below to view the full spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Polling stations will shortly be closing in the Eccles by-election to replace former council Cabinet member Sharmina August.

Eccles by-election result: LAB: 951 CON: 426 GRN: 261 LDEM: 142 TUSC: 76 Turnout: 1,872 (16.46%) LABOUR HOLD This marks the first time since the ward's creation in 1973 that turnout in Eccles has fallen below 20%.

Please note that elections due in Salford this year have been cancelled. There would have been Greater Manchester County Council elections this year, but these were cancelled by then Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, when she abolished the GMC.

John Warmisham (Pendleton & Charlestown) has left the Labour Party to sit as an Independent Socialist councillor following recent policy decisions taken by the national government. He has served as a Labour councillor in Salford since 1991 but does not intend to seek re-election.

Cllr. Bill Hinds (Swinton & Wardley), former Council Leader and later finance chief, has resigned from the Labour Party to sit as an Independent Democratic Socialist, citing the government’s response to the war in Gaza. He follows John Warmisham, who resigned earlier this year.

Roseanna Wain, who has served as a Labour councillor for Blackfriars & Trinity since 2021, has resigned. Her term was due to end in May, so the seat will remain vacant until the ordinary elections at that time.