Salford City Council

Salford City Council is the local authority of the City of Salford in Greater Manchester. It is a metropolitan borough council, one of the ten in Greater Manchester. It was set up by the the Local Government Act 1972. It runs most of the local government services in Salford. It is part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The directly elected mayor is Paul Dennett.

Since 1973, political control of the council has been held by the Labour Party.^[1]