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Council wards
There are 32 wards with three councillors each.
Find out more about the different wards
Councillors
There are 96 councillors made up of 95 Labour, and 1 Liberal Democrat.
Get details of Manchester councillors
Population
514,417 as of 2013
Economy
Manchester, along with Salford, Stockport Tameside and Trafford (Greater Manchester South) has a Gross Value Added (GVA) of £34.8b.
Rainfall
Manchester annual average: 806.6mm.
UK annual average: 1,125mm.
Town Hall
Designed by Alfred Waterhouse and completed in 1877.
Find out more about our town hall
Scientific discoveries and world firsts
From the passenger railway to the world’s first programmable computer and on to Graphene, the atom-thin ‘wonder material’, Manchester has always lead the way for innovation and social progression.