Salford City Council

Salford City Council
Executive mayor elected every four years Third of council elected three years out of four
Type
Type	Metropolitan district council of the City of Salford
Houses	Unicameral
Term limits	None
History
Founded	1 April 1974
Leadership
Executive mayor	Ian Stewart, Labour Since 3 May 2013
Civic mayor	Councillor Peter Dobbs Since May 2014
Structure
Joint committees	Greater Manchester Combined Authority Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel
Elections
Council voting system	Plurality-at-large
Mayor voting system	Supplementary vote
Council last election	2010 (one third of councillors) 2011 (one third of councillors) 2012 (one third of councillors)
Council next election	2014 (one third of councillors) 2015 (one third of councillors) 2016 (one third of councillors)
Website
www.salford.gov.uk

Salford City Council is the local authority of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Salford. It is a constituent council of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The directly elected mayor is Ian Stewart and the civic mayor is Peter Dobbs.

The council is based at Swinton Civic Centre with additional offices in Eccles.

Some services are provided by Urban Vision, a public-private partnership formed in 2005 between SCC, Capita and Galliford Try.

Political control

Further information: Salford local elections

Since 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Party in control	Years
Labour	since 1973