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Elections

​​​​​​​​​People who run your council are called councillors. They make important decisions, such as how the council budget is spent and which services are prioritised.

Each councillor is elected for a 4-year term of office and there are 3 councillors representing each council ward in the borough. Councillors are elected every year, over a 4-year cycle (with no elections in the 4th year). This means at each election a third of councillors are elected. Upcoming election years are 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026 and so on.

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Contact

0300 303 0345

Phone: Monday-Friday 8.30am-5.30pm.
Closed for training Monday 11am-11.30am.

Elections Team
Governance and Committee Services
Floor 2
Number One Riverside
Smith Street
Rochdale OL16 1XU​​

Key general election dates

Deadline for list of candidates
Nominations close at 4pm, published at 5pm, 14 November 2019

Last date to register to vote
12 midnight, 26 November 2019

Receipt of postal vote applications
5pm, 26 November 2019

Receipt of proxy vote applications
5pm, 4 December 2019

Election day
7am-10pm

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