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<\/p>\nAt the city council elections last week, many incumbent councillors in Manchester were fighting to be re-elected.<\/p>\n
All 92 seats in the city’s 32 wards were up for grabs, including those with heavy student populations such as Fallowfield, Didsbury and Chorlton.<\/p>\n
The turnout, however, particularly in Fallowfield, was noticeably low with just 17% of people voting.<\/p>\n
Fallowfield had the unenviable record of having the lowest turnout in the whole of Manchester.<\/p>\n
Labour councillors who stood for re-election in Fallowfield were Grace Fletcher-Hackwood, Zahra Alijah and Ali-Raza IIjas. All three managed to retain their seats<\/p>\n
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Councillor Fletcher-Hackwood said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be re-elected. It’s an honour and a privilege and we\u2019re committed to keep working hard for Fallowfield and for Manchester.\u201d<\/p>\n
The question remains that why was it such a poor turn out for Fallowfield considering it is now younger people who have the \u2018power to change things\u2019.<\/p>\n
Student Kate Harding, 21 did not vote in the recent elections, stating: \u201cI didn\u2019t see the point in voting this time round, to be quite frank I didn\u2019t even really know they were happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if they want to get more people to vote they actually have to start putting into place what we want as a community as so far I don\u2019t feel like there has been much change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councillor Fletcher-Hackwood added: \u201cThere are tough times ahead as a Tory government cuts continue to bite, but we\u2019re going to keep working on the issues that residents have told us are most important to them: good quality housing, mitigating the impact of Welfare \u2018reforms\u2019 such as Universal Credit, cleaner and safer streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cit’s always difficult to engage young people in local (as opposed to general) elections – particularly students, as student accommodation makes it difficult for us to canvass or even leaflet them in the same way we would other residents: halls are usually inaccessible to us and we don’t get a great response rate from doorknocking large shared houses.<\/font><\/p>\n – That said, we were disappointed with this year’s turnout and will be working with the SU and others to encourage greater voter registration and engagement with the elections next year.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the city council elections last week, many incumbent councillors in Manchester were fighting to be re-elected. All 92 seats in the city’s 32 wards were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1241,"featured_media":2376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[131,23,441,132,183],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-elections","tag-fallowfield","tag-labour","tag-manchester-city-council","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n