Elections 2018: MM’s live blog as Greater Manchester heads for the polls
MM reporters are at counts across Greater Manchester bringing you results as they are announced, reaction and analysis.
MM reporters are at counts across Greater Manchester bringing you results as they are announced, reaction and analysis.
After getting the green light from Parliament and Salford City Council, the Salford Unemployment and Community Resource Centre’s address and postcode can now be used by homeless people to register to vote in the General Election in June.
The Boundary Commission, which is carrying out the review in a bid to cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600, says the number of constituencies in the North West must reduce from 75 to 68 and that, by law, each must contain between 71,031 and 78,507 electors.
There has been much discussion on why the Remain side – who were almost universally tipped to win – ended up losing the vote.
The country voted 51.8% to 48.2% to leave the European political block after many analysts had predicted a comfortable Remain victory.
Altrincham and Sale West’s Green candidate Nick Robertson-Brown has pushed for the idea of getting rid of the first past the post voting system.
MM took to the streets of Manchester to find out whether Mancunians were going to vote in the May elections.
Manchester People’s History Museum host an Election! exhibition, which will grow and evolve around the 2015 campaign, and include collections featuring iconic objects from every general election from 1900-2010.
‘Tens of thousands’ of eligible voters across Greater Manchester could miss having their say at May’s general election because they aren’t registered, local councils have warned.
Manchester Labour Councillor Kevin Peel accuses the Government of ‘deliberately making it harder for young people, students, transient renter and ethnic minorities to vote’.
Following the youth select committee’s report on lowering the voting age to sixteen and introducing a compulsary politics GCSE. Mancunians agree it is time to make a change.
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