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Greater Manchester mayoral election, 2017

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4 May 2017
  
2020 →

Stephen Morris
  
Shneur Odze

Sean Anstee
  
Jane Brophy


The inaugural Greater Manchester mayoral election will be held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Subsequent elections will be held in May 2020 and then every four years after that.

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The electoral system for the election will be supplementary vote (SV).

Conservative Party

  • Sean Anstee, Trafford Council Leader.

    • Liberal Democrats

  • Jane Brophy is a Trafford councillor representing Timperley. Brophy is pro-EU and works in the NHS. She is in favour of preserving the greenbelt around Manchester.

    • Labour Party

  • Andy Burnham, MP for Leigh since 2001, Shadow Home Secretary 2015–16, former Shadow Secretary of State for Health from 2011–2015 and former Secretary of State for Health from 2009–2010.

    • UKIP

  • Shneur Odze, former North West England European Parliament candidate.

    • Green Party

  • Deyika Nzeribe was selected as the Green Party candidate. However, he died of heart attack on 1 January 2017. Will Patterson was selected as the Green Party's new mayoral candidate.

    • English Democrats

  • Stephen Morris, General Secretary of the Workers of England Union and North West Chairman of the English Democrats.

    • Communist League

  • Peter Clifford was selected as the Communist League candidate.

    • Independent

  • Marcus Farmer – local businessman.

    • Potential

  • Jim O'Neill, economist and former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

    • References

    Greater Manchester mayoral election, 2017 Wikipedia
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