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    Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Wigan...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election. Following the previous election there had been three...
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    The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest town, Wigan but covers a far...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 increasing...
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    Elections to Wigan Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003 with one-third of the council was up for election. Prior to the election, there had been two...
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    the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,714. Wigan is part...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 1 May 2008. One-third of the council was up for election. This result had the following consequences for the total...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 6 May 1999. One-third of the council was up for election. Prior to the election, the Liberal Democrats had gained...
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    Elections to Wigan Borough Council were held on 4 May 2000. One-third of the council was up for election, as well as an extra vacancy in Norley - both...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 2 May 2002, with one-third of the council to be re-elected. There had been a number of by-elections in the gap...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held in May 2011. One-third of the council was up for election. These elections were held as part of the 2011 United Kingdom...
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    Elections to Wigan council were held on Thursday, 2 May 1996, with an extra vacancy in Abram to be filled. Going into the election there were noticeably...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 6 May 2010. One-third of the council was up for election. This result had the following consequences for the total...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 4 May 2006. One-third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council...
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    Elections to Wigan Council were held on 3 May 2007 with one third of the seats up for election. This result had the following consequences for the total...
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    Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1994, with one third of the seats up for election. Prior to the election, Labour had defended...
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  • Elections to Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 6 May 1999. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall...
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    The 1998 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 7 May 1998. All London borough council seats were elected as well a third of the seats on...
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  • club in the town following the demise of Wigan A.F.C., Wigan County, Wigan United, Wigan Town and Wigan Borough. The town's die-hard football enthusiasts...
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    Canal to the south, which forms its boundary with Trafford. The metropolitan boroughs of Wigan, Bolton, and Bury lie to the west, northwest, and north respectively...
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  • The 2024 Gosport Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom on the same day....
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    Cheshire, the metropolitan borough of St Helens in Merseyside to the northwest and north and the metropolitan boroughs of Wigan and Trafford in Greater Manchester...
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    Orrell, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    Orrell is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward had fallen at the 2011 Census...
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    Tyldesley (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    Tyldesley (/ˈtɪlzliː/) is a market town in Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county...
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  • Elections to Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 6 May 1999. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no...
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    the Metropolitan Boroughs were elected along with elections in many of the unitary authorities and district councils. There were no local elections in...
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    Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashire...
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    a population of 102,629. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, which had a population of 183,200 at the 2021 Census...
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  • Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 6 May 1999. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party lost overall...
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    Leigh, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. Within the boundaries of...
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