Labour has maintained its tight grip on Manchester council - despite losing seats to the Lib Dems and the Greens at the local elections. Left with 88 councillors, the ruling party remains the largest Labour group in the country.
But the party has been wiped out in Woodhouse Park, where a third Green councillor won in the Wythenshawe ward. The Lib Dems gained two more members, beating Labour in Ancoats and Beswick and Didsbury West.
Newly-elected Lib Dem councillor Chris Northwood beat incumbent Majid Dar by 335 votes to become the city's first openly transgender councillor. Across Manchester, turnout increased slightly with 25.49 per cent of registered voters voting.
